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Anonymous Mon, Dec 22nd, 2014 01:16 No. 163144 ID: 4a161b

Can we have a machine readable API for ponychan? Like a thread list for each board, thread posts with media URLs, and a board list in Json similar to 4chan's API?

If not, how can I programmatically detect new threads and new replies?

Thanks.

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Anonymous Mon, Dec 22nd, 2014 01:19 No. 163145 ID: 77365b

Write a crawler. Python would be quick and easy. No other option because Ponychan would have to do the same thing (without querying, anyway, people here for some reason have a phobia of this) if they'd want to expose this data.

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Anonymous Mon, Dec 22nd, 2014 04:02 No. 163147 ID: d6fe50

>>163145
The site offering an API by parsing the built HTML would be pretty silly... although I suppose there is precedent. I wouldn't have thought that it would be much more of a load on the database than Watched Threads, though.

At any rate, significant work on the current codebase isn't looking very likely at the moment if bugs like the logic being inverted on locked boards are staying around.

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Detective Pinkie D. Pie!Im9SILLYXo Mon, Dec 22nd, 2014 08:22 No. 163148 ID: 3d403b
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>detect new threads
Didn't we have some kind of IRC script/bot that did that?

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>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 22nd, 2014 10:23 No. 163149 ID: 65516a >>163148 How does it work? Source? Reply • Report

Anonymous Mon, Dec 22nd, 2014 12:35 No. 163150 ID: 34ee07

>>163147
It would. The site self-crawling was sort of sarcastic, as that's ten or more times as consuming as querying and serving. But I think I've ranted long enough about the phobia.

>>163148
>>163149
It's a crawler.

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Zeke Roa!i.FCTHULHU Mon, Dec 22nd, 2014 12:59 No. 163151 ID: 31b110
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Like the others said, just use a crawler. If you like Python, the BeautifulSoup library is really and really convenient to use.

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>>	Anonymous Wed, Dec 31st, 2014 14:37 No. 163504 ID: 05d8dd >>163144 I second. Reply • Report

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