Dreamwidth API docs?

[ulrith]

Hi!

I've checked this page for Dreamwidth API docs:
https://wiki.dreamwidth.net/wiki/index.php/Dreamwidth_API

It contains a broken link to Livejournal site only.
It seems Livejournal has removed API docs from their site.
However, I've found it in the Internet Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161227131504/http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/ljp.csp.protocol.html

Maybe we can have nice API docs here on www.dreamwidth.org folks?
Do you have them somewhere on the server?

Comments

[alierak]

I found LJ's current API docs here. DW's XMLRPC API isn't exactly like LJ's but hopefully that helps. In any case the best documentation would probably be the source code.

I don't think anyone's really interested in maintaining the XMLRPC API or updating the documentation because it's being abandoned in place. But if you want to do it, let me know if you need help getting logged into the wiki.

The API under active development is the REST API which I think is supposed to document itself here. I don't believe it has enough features in production to be useful yet though.

[alierak]

Source code for DW's XMLRPC API.

[ulrith]

Thank you alierak, this is very helpful!

[brooksmoses]

So this is the standard "we have two kinds of systems: deprecated and not ready yet" situation?

[denise]

More like "this one still works but it has always sucked and we're not finished doing the replacement", but yeah. momijizukamori is actively working on the replacement, though!

[ulrith]

I think I might put something to the wiki. E.g. I've just discovered that users' passwords are not working with the API due to this:
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/commit/18d53d5fc1310ea8e6ca3cba1b36395414eb67aa

I would save some time if this is mentioned on that API page :)