ActivityPub Plugin for GNU Social Doc

Contents

• Methods
  • Liked Collection
  • Profiles
• Entities
  • Attachment
  • Error
  • Image
  • Notice
  • Profile
  • Tag

Selecting ranges

For most GET operations that return arrays, the query parameters max_id and since_id can be used to specify the range of IDs to return. API methods that return collections of items can return a Link header containing URLs for the next and prev pages. See the Link header RFC for more information.

Pretty output

For most operations if the pretty parameter is set a formated output will be generated (useful for learning about the API or debuging purposes).

Errors

If the request you make doesn't go through, the plugin will usually respond with an Error.

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Methods

Liked Collection

Getting an Actor's Liked Collection:

GET :nickname/liked.json

Query parameters:

Field	Description	Optional
since	Starts from nth entry	yes
limit	Maximum number of followers to get (Default 40, Max 80)	yes

Return:

Field	Description
id	URL for current endpoint
type	OrderedCollection
totalItems	Number of elements in orderedItems
orderedItems	An array of Notices.

Profiles

Fetching an Actor's profile:

GET :nickname/profile.json

Returns a Profile.

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Entities

Note: Some attributes attributes in the entity payload can have null value and are marked as nullable on the tables below. Attributes that are not nullable are guaranteed to return a valid value.

Attachment

Attribute	Description	Nullable
id	ID of the attachment	no
type	One of: "image", "video", "gifv", "unknown"	no
url	URL of the locally hosted version of the image	no
remote_url	For remote images, the remote URL of the original image	yes
preview_url	URL of the preview image	no
text_url	Shorter URL for the image, for insertion into text (only present on local images)	yes
meta	See attachment metadata below	yes
description	A description of the image for the visually impaired (maximum 420 characters), or null if none provided	yes

Attachment metadata:

May contain small and original (referring to the preview and the original file). Images may contain width, height, size, aspect, while videos (including GIFV) may contain width, height, frame_rate, duration and bitrate. There may be another top-level object, focus with the coordinates x and y. These coordinates can be used for smart thumbnail cropping, see this for reference.

Note

: When the type is "unknown", it is likely only remote_url is available and local url is missing

Error

The most important part of an error response is the HTTP status code. Standard semantics are followed. The body of an error is a JSON object with this structure:

Attribute	Description	Nullable
error	A textual description of the error	no

Image

Attribute	Description	Nullable
type	Image	no
width	Image's width	no
height	Image's height	no
url	Image URL	no

Notice

Attribute	Description	Nullable
id	Notice's URL	no
type	Notice's Type	no
actor	Notice owner's URL	no
published	DateTime of notice creation	no
to	To	no
cc	CC	no
content	Notice's Content in plain text	no
rendered	Notice's Content in HTML	no
url	Notice's URL	no
reply_to	ID of the notice this replies	yes
is_local	Equals 1 for local notices, 0 otherwise	no
conversation	Notice conversation id	no
attachment	Attachment object	no
tag	Tag array	no

Profile

Attribute	Description	Nullable
@context	Standard compliance	no
id	Actor's id	no
type	Person	no
nickname	Actor's nickname	no
inbox	URL to Actor's inbox endpoint	no
outbox	URL to Actor's outbox endpoint	no
acct	Equals username for local users, includes @domain for remote ones	no
display_name	The Actor's display name	no
followers	URL to Actor's followers endpoint	no
followers	URL to Actor's following endpoint	no
liked	URL to Actor's Liked collection endpoint	no
liked_count	Total number of faves	no
summary	Actor's biography	no
url	URL of the Actor's profile page (can be remote)	no
avatar	Image object with the Actor's avatar	no

Tag

Attribute	Description	Nullable
name	The hashtag, not including the preceding #	no
url	The URL of the hashtag	no