Lemmy post url search? - eviltoast

I may be missing something obvious, but can you search for main url of a post? Trying avoid posting duplicate content. The search doesn’t seem to check the url field for local or all search options.

  • Dankenstein@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure of any programs that will do this for you but Lemmy has a pretty nice API that you can use and there are libraries you can use for languages like JavaScript: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-js-client

    import { LemmyHttp } from 'lemmy-js-client

const client = new LemmyHttp( 'https://beehaw.org/' )

const response = await client.search( {
	listing_type: 'Local',
	q: 'https://www.huckmag.com/article/sex-workers-and-the-kink-community-are-fighting-back-against-instagram-deplatforming',
	sort: 'TopNineMonths',
	type_: 'Url'
} )

console.log( response.posts.length ) // Should print '1' to the console
    • irongamer@beehaw.orgOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Ah, thanks. I should have given the API a look. I’ll see if I can write something that will do what I need.

      • Many Shapes@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        If reading through all the JS and/or Rust is frustrating, theres programs to read it into easier to parse formats.