Friendica API

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Overview

Friendica provides the following specific endpoints.

Authentication is the same as described in Using the APIs.

Entities

These endpoints uses the Friendica API entities.

Endpoints

GET api/friendica/events

Returns a list of Event entities for the current logged in user.

Parameters

since_id: (optional) minimum event id for pagination
count: maximum number of items returned, default 20

POST api/friendica/event_create

Create a new event for the current logged in user.

Parameters

id : (optional) id of event, event will be amended if supplied
name : name of the event (required)
start_time : start of the event (ISO), required
end_time : (optional) end of the event, event is open end, if not supplied
desc : (optional) description of the event
place : (optional) location of the event
publish : (optional) create message for event
allow_cid : (optional) ACL-formatted list of allowed contact ids if private event
allow_gid : (optional) ACL-formatted list of disallowed contact ids if private event
deny_cid : (optional) ACL-formatted list of allowed group ids if private event
deny_gid : (optional) ACL-formatted list of disallowed group ids if private event

POST api/friendica/event_delete

Delete event from calendar (not the message)

Parameters

id : id of event to be deleted

GET api/externalprofile/show

Returns a Contact entity for the provided profile URL.

Parameters

profileurl: Profile URL

GET api/statuses/public_timeline

Returns a list of public Items posted on this node. Equivalent of the local community page.

Parameters

count: Items per page (default: 20)
page: page number
since_id: minimum id
max_id: maximum id
exclude_replies: don't show replies (default: false)
conversation_id: Shows all statuses of a given conversation.
include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

trim_user

GET api/statuses/networkpublic_timeline

Returns a list of public Items this node is aware of. Equivalent of the global community page.

Parameters

count: Items per page (default: 20)
page: page number
since_id: minimum id
max_id: maximum id
exclude_replies: don't show replies (default: false)
conversation_id: Shows all statuses of a given conversation.
include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

GET api/statuses/replies

Parameters

count: Items per page (default: 20)
page: page number
since_id: minimum id
max_id: maximum id
include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

include_rts
trim_user
contributor_details

GET api/conversation/show

Unofficial Twitter command. It shows all direct answers (excluding the original post) to a given id.

Parameters

id: id of the post
count: Items per page (default: 20)
page: page number
since_id: minimum id
max_id: maximum id
include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

include_rts
trim_user
contributor_details

GET api/statusnet/conversation

Alias of api/conversation/show.

GET api/statusnet/config

Returns the public Friendica node configuration.

GET api/gnusocial/config

Alias of api/statusnet/config.

GET api/statusnet/version

Returns a fake static StatusNet protocol version.

GET api/gnusocial/version

Alias of api/statusnet/version.

POST api/friendica/activity/[verb]

Add or remove an activity from an item. 'verb' can be one of:

like
dislike
attendyes
attendno
attendmaybe

To remove an activity, prepend the verb with "un", eg. "unlike" or "undislike" Attend verbs disable eachother: that means that if "attendyes" was added to an item, adding "attendno" remove previous "attendyes". Attend verbs should be used only with event-related items (there is no check at the moment).

Parameters

id: item id

Return values

On success: json:

"ok"

xml:

<ok>true</ok>

On error: HTTP 400 BadRequest

GET api/direct_messages

Deprecated Twitter received direct message list endpoint.

Parameters

count: Items per page (default: 20)
page: page number
since_id: minimum id
max_id: maximum id
getText: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"
include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)
friendica_verbose: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")

Unsupported parameters

skip_status

GET api/direct_messages/all

Returns all Private Messages.

Parameters

count: Items per page (default: 20)
page: page number
since_id: minimum id
max_id: maximum id
getText: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"
friendica_verbose: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")

GET api/direct_messages/conversation

Returns all replies of a single private message conversation. Returns Private Messages

Parameters

count: Items per page (default: 20)
page: page number
since_id: minimum id
max_id: maximum id
getText: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"
uri: URI of the conversation
friendica_verbose: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")

GET api/direct_messages/sent

Deprecated Twitter sent direct message list endpoint. Returns Private Messages.

Parameters

count: Items per page (default: 20)
page: page number
since_id: minimum id
max_id: maximum id
getText: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"
include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)
friendica_verbose: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")

POST api/direct_messages/new

Deprecated Twitter direct message submission endpoint.

Parameters

user_id: id of the user
screen_name: screen name (for technical reasons, this value is not unique!)
text: The message
replyto: ID of the replied direct message
title: Title of the direct message

POST api/direct_messages/destroy

Deprecated Twitter direct message deletion endpoint.

Parameters

id: id of the message to be deleted
include_entities: optional, currently not yet implemented
friendica_parenturi: optional, can be used for increased safety to delete only intended messages
friendica_verbose: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")

Return values

On success:

JSON return as defined for Twitter API not yet implemented
on friendica_verbose=true: JSON return {"result":"ok","message":"message deleted"}

On error: HTTP 400 BadRequest

on friendica_verbose=true: different JSON returns {"result":"error","message":"xyz"}

GET api/friendica/direct_messages_setseen

Parameters

id: id of the message to be updated as seen

Return values

On success:

JSON return {"result": "ok", "message": "message set to seen"}

On error:

different JSON returns {"result": "error", "message": "xyz"}

GET api/friendica/direct_messages_search (GET; AUTH)

Returns Private Messages matching the provided search string.

Parameters

searchstring: string for which the API call should search as '%searchstring%' in field 'body' of all messages of the authenticated user (caption ignored)
getText (optional): plain|html If ommited, the title is prepended to the plaintext body in the text attribute of the private message objects.
getUserObjects (optional): true|false If false, the sender and recipient attributes of the private message object are absent.

Return values

Returns only tested with JSON, XML might work as well.

On success:

JSON return {"success":"true", "search_results": array of found messages}
JSOn return {"success":"false", "search_results": "nothing found"}

On error:

different JSON returns {"result": "error", "message": "searchstring not specified"}

GET api/friendica/group_show

Return all or a specified group of the user with the containing contacts as array.

Parameters

gid: optional, if not given, API returns all groups of the user

Return values

Array of:

name: name of the group
gid: id of the group
user: array of Contacts

POST api/friendica/group_create

Create the group with the posted array of contacts as members.

Parameters

name: name of the group to be created

POST data

JSON data as Array like the result of GET api/friendica/group_show:

gid
name
List of Contacts

Return values

Array of:

success: true if successfully created or reactivated
gid: gid of the created group
name: name of the created group
status: "missing user" | "reactivated" | "ok"
wrong users: array of users, which were not available in the contact table

POST api/friendica/group_update

Update the group with the posted array of contacts as members (post all members of the group to the call; function will remove members not posted).

Parameters

gid: id of the group to be changed
name: name of the group to be changed

POST data

JSON data as array like the result of GET api/friendica/group_show:

gid
name
List of Contacts

Return values

Array of:

success: true if successfully updated
gid: gid of the changed group
name: name of the changed group
status: "missing user" | "ok"
wrong users: array of users, which were not available in the contact table

POST api/friendica/group_delete

Delete the specified group of contacts; API call need to include the correct gid AND name of the group to be deleted.

Parameters

gid: id of the group to be deleted
name: name of the group to be deleted

Return values

Array of:

success: true if successfully deleted
gid: gid of the deleted group
name: name of the deleted group
status: "deleted" if successfully deleted
wrong users: empty array

GET api/friendica/notifications

Return last 50 Notifications for the current user, ordered by date with unseen item on top.

Parameters

none

POST api/friendica/notifications/seen

Set notification as seen.

Parameters

id: id of the notification to set seen

Return values

If the note is linked to an item, returns an Item.

Otherwise, a success status is returned:

success (json) | <status>success</status> (xml)

GET api/friendica/photo

Returns a Photo.

Parameters

photo_id: Resource id of a photo.
scale: (optional) scale value of the photo

Returns data of a picture with the given resource. If 'scale' isn't provided, returned data include full url to each scale of the photo. If 'scale' is set, returned data include image data base64 encoded.

possibile scale value are:

0: original or max size by server settings
1: image with or height at <= 640
2: image with or height at <= 320
3: thumbnail 160x160
4: Profile image at 300x300
5: Profile image at 80x80
6: Profile image at 48x48

An image used as profile image has only scale 4-6, other images only 0-3

Return values

json:

    {
        "id": "photo id",
        "created": "date(YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)",
        "edited": "date(YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)",
        "title": "photo title",
        "desc": "photo description",
        "album": "album name",
        "filename": "original file name",
        "type": "mime type",
        "height": "number",
        "width": "number",
        "profile": "1 if is profile photo",
        "link": {
            "<scale>": "url to image",
            ...
        },
        // if 'scale' is set
        "datasize": "size in byte",
        "data": "base64 encoded image data"
    }

xml:

    <photo>
        <id>photo id</id>
        <created>date(YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)</created>
        <edited>date(YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)</edited>
        <title>photo title</title>
        <desc>photo description</desc>
        <album>album name</album>
        <filename>original file name</filename>
        <type>mime type</type>
        <height>number</height>
        <width>number</width>
        <profile>1 if is profile photo</profile>
        <links type="array">
        <link type="mime type" scale="scale number" href="image url"/>
            ...
        </links>
    </photo>

GET api/friendica/photos/list

Returns the API user's Photo List Items.

Return values

json:

    [
        {
            "id": "resource_id",
            "album": "album name",
            "filename": "original file name",
            "type": "image mime type",
            "thumb": "url to thumb sized image"
        },
        ...
    ]

xml:

    <photos type="array">
        <photo id="resource_id"
        album="album name"
        filename="original file name"
        type="image mime type">
            "url to thumb sized image"
        </photo>
        ...
    </photos>

POST api/friendica/photo/create

Alias of api/friendica/photo/update

POST api/friendica/photo/update

Saves data for the scales 0-2 to database (see above for scale description). Call adds non-public entries to items table to enable authenticated contacts to comment/like the photo. Client should pay attention to the fact that updated access rights are not transferred to the contacts. i.e. public photos remain publicly visible if they have been commented/liked before setting visibility back to a limited group. Currently it is best to inform user that updating rights is not the right way to do this, and offer a solution to add photo as a new photo with the new rights instead.

Parameters

photo_id (optional): if specified the photo with this id will be updated
media (optional): image data as base64, only optional if photo_id is specified (new upload must have media)
desc (optional): description for the photo, updated when photo_id is specified
album: name of the album to be deleted (always necessary)
album_new (optional): can be used to change the album of a single photo if photo_id is specified
allow_cid/allow_gid/deny_cid/deny_gid (optional):
- on create: empty string or omitting = public photo, specify in format <x><y><z> for private photo
- on update: keys need to be present with empty values for changing a private photo to public

Return values

On success:

new photo uploaded: JSON return with photo data (see GET api/friendica/photo)
photo updated - changed photo data: JSON return with photo data (see GET api/friendica/photo)
photo updated - changed info: JSON return {"result": "updated", "message":"Image id 'xyz' has been updated."}
photo updated - nothing changed: JSON return {"result": "cancelled","message": "Nothing to update for image id 'xyz'."}

On error:

403 FORBIDDEN: if not authenticated
400 BADREQUEST: "no albumname specified", "no media data submitted", "photo not available", "acl data invalid"
500 INTERNALSERVERERROR: "image size exceeds PHP config settings, file was rejected by server", "image size exceeds Friendica Config setting (uploaded size: x)", "unable to process image data", "image upload failed", "unknown error - uploading photo failed, see Friendica log for more information", "unknown error - update photo entry in database failed", "unknown error - this error on uploading or updating a photo should never happen"

POST api/friendica/photo/delete

Deletes a single image with the specified id, is not reversible -> ensure that client is asking user for being sure to do this Sets item table entries for this photo to deleted = 1.

Parameters

photo_id: id of the photo to be deleted

Return values

On success:

JSON return

{
    "result": "deleted",
    "message": "photo with id 'xyz' has been deleted from server."
}

On error:

403 FORBIDDEN: if not authenticated
400 BADREQUEST: "no photo_id specified", "photo not available"
500 INTERNALSERVERERROR: "unknown error on deleting photo", "problem with deleting items occurred"

POST api/friendica/photoalbum/delete

Deletes all images with the specified album name, is not reversible -> ensure that client is asking user for being sure to do this.

Parameters

album: name of the album to be deleted

Return values

On success:

JSON return

{
    "result": "deleted",
    "message": "album 'xyz' with all containing photos has been deleted."
}

On error:

403 FORBIDDEN: if not authenticated
400 BADREQUEST: "no albumname specified", "album not available"
500 INTERNALSERVERERROR: "problem with deleting item occured", "unknown error - deleting from database failed"

POST api/friendica/photoalbum/update

Changes the album name to album_new for all photos in album.

Parameters

album: name of the album to be updated
album_new: new name of the album

Return values

On success:

JSON return

{
    "result": "updated",
    "message":"album 'abc' with all containing photos has been renamed to 'xyz'."
}

On error:

403 FORBIDDEN: if not authenticated
400 BADREQUEST: "no albumname specified", "no new albumname specified", "album not available"
500 INTERNALSERVERERROR: "unknown error - updating in database failed"

GET api/friendica/profile/show

Returns the Profile data of the authenticated user.

Return values

On success: Array of:

global_dir: URL of the global directory set in server settings
friendica_owner: user data of the authenticated user
profiles: array of the profile data

On error: HTTP 403 Forbidden: when no authentication was provided HTTP 400 Bad Request: if given profile_id is not in the database or is not assigned to the authenticated user

General description of profile data in API returns: - hide_friends: true if friends are hidden - profile_photo - profile_thumb - publish: true if published on the server's local directory - net_publish: true if published to global_dir - fullname - date_of_birth - description - xmpp - homepage - address - locality - region - postal_code - country - pub_keywords - custom_fields: list of public custom fields

Deprecated endpoints

POST api/statuses/mediap

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