tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-10:30813 Dreamwidth Development Training Dreamwidth Development Training 2016-12-24T02:46:59Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-10:30813:65408 Ари Линн 2016-12-24T02:46:59Z 2016-12-24T02:46:59Z aggravated public 1 Posted by: <span lj:user='ari_linn' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://ari-linn.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://ari-linn.dreamwidth.org/'><b>ari_linn</b></a></span><br /><br />How do I get post comments through the API? I can get posts with LJ.XMLRPC.getevents, and in the original LJ there's a method called LJ.XMLRPC.getcomments, but when I tried it on DW API, I got "Client error: Unknown method". Not nice.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_dev_training&ditemid=65408" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-10:30813:58924 vlion 2014-11-18T06:02:46Z 2014-11-18T06:02:46Z public 4 Posted by: <span lj:user='vlion' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://vlion.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://vlion.dreamwidth.org/'><b>vlion</b></a></span><br /><br /><h2>HOWTO Use the Dreamwidth API</h2> <p>DW endpoint: <code>"https://www.dreamwidth.org/interface/xmlrpc"</code></p> <p>Invoke <code>LJ.XMLRPC.getchallenge</code> on the endpoint, receiving something like...</p> <pre><code>"auth_scheme" :STRING "c0" "server_time" :INTEGER &lt;epoch time&gt; "challenge" :STRING "c0:1416283200:2410:60:4QoGWOXV0uB9gBaZ0LB0:5a1901a0feccabcb30fbe6e85878f758") "expire_time" :INTEGER &lt;epoch time&gt;)) </code></pre> <p>Pick <code>challenge</code> out, <code>md5_hex</code>[0] the <code>challenge</code> concatenated with the <code>md5_hex</code> of the account password; call the result <code>response</code>.</p> <p><code> response = md5(concat(challenge, md5(password))) </code></p> <p>Then, for <code>function</code> in the API, invoke <code>LJ.RPC.function</code> using <code>auth_method = challenge</code> and <code>auth_response = response</code>.</p> <p>Proceed as appropriate for said <code>function</code></p> <p>[0] .. digest in hexadecimal form. The length of the returned string will be 32 and it will only contain characters from this set: <code>'0'..'9'</code> and <code>'a'..'f'</code>.</p> <br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dw_dev_training&ditemid=58924" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments