The lack of keyboard interface on Lemmy is killing me, but really what I want is a good client in Emacs. However, it’s beyond my Elisp to design and start such a project, but I could probably help. Anyone on it?
i’m the mastodon.el maintainer. i wonder if a decent idea for this would be to have an API library that could be used with gnus, elfeed, md4rd, or anything else? it seems like everyone will want to browse it in their preferred environment.
some lemmy things are visible in mastodon.el, but it’s currently not great. not only because of how masto rendering is based on a microblog style view, but also because a lot of content doesn’t federate that well yet.
i took a look at the lemmy API docs, but they don’t seem to provide an overview of the endpoints?
I think this would be the best way to go.
Myself, I’d love to be able to interact with Lemmy through Gnus, but it would be great to have a general emacs API for flexibility so you can choose the front-end.
It looks as though the api for a client is defined in api_common.
thanks for the link. so https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/src/api_routes_http.rs shows the paths and params, i tried them in a rest client and it’s no too hard to follow.
the mastodon.el http layer isn’t great, but it could be v quickly adapted for this case.
Thanks, yes that’s a more useful source than my one.
https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem has some basics, functions returning plain JSON. i didn’t do any auth, but if its oauth and so similar to mastodon.el, we cd also just move its auth code into the fedi.el library. and fedi-http.el is already set up to handle auth tokens.
discovering lemmy’s query parameters is quite a pain for me, as i don’t know rust.
Any emacs interface would be great. Perhaps someone who is familiar with elfeed could hook into that?
FWIW I’m reading lemmy RSS feed with elfeed (hope this gets through - popping my lemmy cherry here)
can you see comments that way? you just subscribe to communities i imagine?
Sorry for delayed response, just getting used to lemmy …
No, I don’t see comments - if I’m interested in the headline, I press ‘b’ to pop up the full item in my browser.
Yes, I subscribe to communities like this:
(use-package elfeed :bind (:map elfeed-search-mode-map ("s" . elfeed-search-set-filter) ("S" . elfeed-search-live-filter)) :config (setf elfeed-sort-order 'ascending)) ;; elfeed-dashboard is a nice add-on (use-package elfeed-dashboard :ensure t :bind ("C-x w" . 'elfeed-dashboard) :config (setq elfeed-dashboard-file "~/.config/emacs/elfeed-dashboard.org") ;; update feed counts on elfeed-quit (advice-add 'elfeed-search-quit-window :after #'elfeed-dashboard-update-links)) (setq elfeed-feeds '( ("http://xkcd.com/rss.xml" comic xkcd) ("http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain" slashdot) ("https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit emacs) ("https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit linux) ("https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/iiTciQgHPG.xml" fossweekly linux) ("https://distrowatch.com/news/dw.xml" news distrowatch linux) ("http://oglaf.com/feeds/rss/" comic oglaf) ("https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit linuxquestions) ("https://www.reddit.com/r/fedora/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit fedora) ("https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml" news bbc) ("https://www.rt.com/rss/" news rt) ("https://hnrss.org/frontpage?count=100" news hacker) ("https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit sway) ("https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit i3wm) ("https://www.reddit.com/r/nordvpn/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit nordvpn) ("https://lwn.net/headlines/rss" news LWN.net) ("https://lobste.rs/t/linux.rss" news lobsterlinux linux) ("https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=rss" news EmacsWiki emacs) ("https://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index" news arstechnica) ("https://www.engadget.com/rss.xml" news engadget) ("https://lemmy.ml/feeds/c/emacs.xml?sort=Active" emacs lemmy) ("https://lemmy.ml/feeds/c/linux.xml?sort=New" linux lemmy) ("https://lemmy.ml/feeds/c/swaywm.xml?sort=New" sway lemmy)))
This might work -https://codeberg.org/martianh/mastodon.el
IMO, the easiest would be to adapt nnreddit to Lemmy. AFAICT, this uses rtv to query Reddit, but it could switch to lemmy-terminal-viewer instead
made some progress. mainly spent time working on getting the sorting types and listing types going, so you can cycle between them on the go. v basic display of post details in byline, etc., but that can easily be spruced up by pulling code from mastodon.el. + markdown rendered posts/comments, uwu!
https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem. the readme has a rough todo list.
logging in and loading lem as package is still pretty rough, or kinda broken. but i’ll get it sorted soon.
still gotta build a comments tree also, that’s a biggie.
Help the world and start learning Elisp while writing a Lemmy client.
The point is there are people out there who are very familiar with the options for making this, who could easily kick-start a solution that would be more rational and better designed and based on a well conceived base. If I were to do it I would re-invent the wheel and flail around with awkward solutions.
I do know Elisp and have written packages so am at a basic-intermediate level. I just recognize that experience has benefits and I could contribute best by enhancing and fixing someone else’s base design.
I’m not forcing you, but “re-invent the wheel” is a bit misconception when Lemmy itself is in the very early development stage.
You misunderstand me. I mean reinventing the wheel of the various functions the solution requires. The actual communication with Lemmy will be a tiny fraction of the work.
It’s always a learning opportunity regardless! Could be a great portfolio project as well. If you’re worried about reinventing the wheel: Google every step of the way to find if a well supported package already exists for what you’re trying to do. Read code of other popular packages that implement that feature you need and “steal” it from them. Maybe your lisp won’t be very idiomatic but that can always be fixed and you have to learn that through experience anyways.
Oh, thanks for the correction!
That’s a brilliant idea! I hope that someone will pick it up and develop it. I’ve been super excited with Lemmy and the fediverse and if this happens it will take the whole experience to another level!
I had also been thinking about this and figured it would make sense as a backend for gnus.el. I thught of starting a thread here but found this one first, so am posting to say I’m also interested in using such a thing. Idk if I’m organized enough to code it myself, due to RL distractions.
