lemmyapicommon

This crate provides all the data types which are necessary to build a client for Lemmy. You can use them with the HTTP client of your choice.

Here is an example using reqwest:

rust let params = GetPosts { community_name: Some("asklemmy".to_string()), ..Default::default() }; let client = Client::new(); let response = client .get("https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/post/list") .query(&params) .send() .await?; let json = response.json::<GetPostsResponse>().await.unwrap(); print!("{:?}", &json);

As you can see, each API endpoint needs a parameter type ( GetPosts), path (/post/list) and response type (GetPostsResponse). You can find the paths and parameter types from this file. For the response types you need to look through the crates lemmyapi and lemmyapi_crud for the place where Perform/PerformCrud is implemented for the parameter type. The response type is specified as a type parameter on the trait.

For a real example of a Lemmy API client, look at lemmyBB.

Lemmy also provides a websocket API. You can find the full websocket code in this file.