Topic: Forum user API, please. This cannot wait for the "new software". - page 2. (Read 3310 times)
January 07, 2012, 04:38:55 PM
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January 04, 2012, 04:29:08 AM
http://download.simplemachines.org/?tools
SMF 1.1.x API: http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php?thanks;filename=smf_1-1_api.php
SMF 1.1.x API: http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php?thanks;filename=smf_1-1_api.php
That is the API for forum operators, not forum users.
It is for integrating other PHP code running on the same machine as the forum itself.
January 04, 2012, 03:08:27 AM
January 04, 2012, 02:51:07 AM
Dear forum operators,
It doesn't have to be much: just fetching the discussion-subdiscussion-thread tree (in a sane format), getting a list of posts in a thread, fetching a post by id number, and making posts would be plenty. Four calls. Something simple like JSON or even just HTTP GET and POST to special urls.
The web UI is driving me completely nuts; I hate it. The "notifications" mechanism is a joke compared to my RSS reader or even the most primitive NNTP client (let alone something as sophisticated as gnus).
All you need to give us is an API and we can do the hard work of improving the user interface. Or at least reusing something we are already comfortable with.
I know the knee-jerk reaction is to say that the "new forum software" will have it, but a good plan now is better than the perfect plan tomorrow. The new forum software is not going to get here anytime soon. I'm starting to wonder if it ever will. Maybe it won't work right at first. Maybe we'll have to switch back. Whatever. Please add an API for the existing forum software.
Please. Pretty please.
I will happily donate another 10BTC if you provide this. Heck, I might even write it for you if that's what it's going to take (I can't believe I just said that).
>>> Please provide an API for the current bitcointalk.org forum <<<
It doesn't have to be much: just fetching the discussion-subdiscussion-thread tree (in a sane format), getting a list of posts in a thread, fetching a post by id number, and making posts would be plenty. Four calls. Something simple like JSON or even just HTTP GET and POST to special urls.
The web UI is driving me completely nuts; I hate it. The "notifications" mechanism is a joke compared to my RSS reader or even the most primitive NNTP client (let alone something as sophisticated as gnus).
All you need to give us is an API and we can do the hard work of improving the user interface. Or at least reusing something we are already comfortable with.
I know the knee-jerk reaction is to say that the "new forum software" will have it, but a good plan now is better than the perfect plan tomorrow. The new forum software is not going to get here anytime soon. I'm starting to wonder if it ever will. Maybe it won't work right at first. Maybe we'll have to switch back. Whatever. Please add an API for the existing forum software.
Please. Pretty please.
I will happily donate another 10BTC if you provide this. Heck, I might even write it for you if that's what it's going to take (I can't believe I just said that).
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