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Friendica API

The Friendica API aims to be compatible to the GNU Social API and the Twitter API.

Please refer to the linked documentation for further information.

Implemented API calls

General

HTTP Method

API endpoints can restrict the method used to request them. Using an invalid method results in HTTP error 405 "Method Not Allowed".

In this document, the required method is listed after the endpoint name. "*" means every method can be used.

Auth

Friendica supports basic http auth and OAuth 1 to authenticate the user to the api.

OAuth settings can be added by the user in web UI under /settings/oauth/

In this document, endpoints which requires auth are marked with "AUTH" after endpoint name

Unsupported parameters

  • cursor: Not implemented in GNU Social
  • trim_user: Not implemented in GNU Social
  • contributor_details: Not implemented in GNU Social
  • place_id: Not implemented in GNU Social
  • display_coordinates: Not implemented in GNU Social
  • include_rts: To-Do
  • include_my_retweet: Retweets in Friendica are implemented in a different way

Different behaviour

  • screen_name: The nick name in friendica is only unique in each network but not for all networks. The users are searched in the following priority: Friendica, StatusNet/GNU Social, Diaspora, pump.io, Twitter. If no contact was found by this way, then the first contact is taken.
  • include_entities: Default is "false". If set to "true" then the plain text is formatted so that links are having descriptions.

Return values

  • cid: Contact id of the user (important for "contact_allow" and "contact_deny")
  • network: network of the user

Errors

When an error occour in API call, an HTTP error code is returned, with an error message Usually:

  • 400 Bad Request: if parameter are missing or items can't be found
  • 403 Forbidden: if authenticated user is missing
  • 405 Method Not Allowed: if API was called with invalid method, eg. GET when API require POST
  • 501 Not Implemented: if requested API doesn't exists
  • 500 Internal Server Error: on other error contitions

Error body is

json:

	{
		"error": "Specific error message",
		"request": "API path requested",
		"code": "HTTP error code"
	}

xml:

	<status>
		<error>Specific error message</error>
		<request>API path requested</request>
		<code>HTTP error code</code>
	</status>

account/rate_limit_status (*; AUTH)

account/verify_credentials (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • skip_status: Don't show the "status" field. (Default: false)
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

conversation/show (*; AUTH)

Unofficial Twitter command. It shows all direct answers (excluding the original post) to a given id.

Parameter

  • id: id of the post
  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • include_rts
  • trim_user
  • contributor_details

direct_messages (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • getText: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)
  • friendica_verbose: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")

Unsupported parameters

  • skip_status

direct_messages/all (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • getText: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"
  • friendica_verbose: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")

direct_messages/conversation (*; AUTH)

Shows all direct messages of a conversation

Parameters

  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • getText: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"
  • uri: URI of the conversation
  • friendica_verbose: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")

direct_messages/sent (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • getText: Defines the format of the status field. Can be "html" or "plain"
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)
  • friendica_verbose: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")

direct_messages/new (POST,PUT; AUTH)

Parameters

  • user_id: id of the user
  • screen_name: screen name (for technical reasons, this value is not unique!)
  • text: The message
  • replyto: ID of the replied direct message
  • title: Title of the direct message

direct_messages/destroy (POST,DELETE; AUTH)

Parameters

  • id: id of the message to be deleted
  • include_entities: optional, currently not yet implemented
  • friendica_parenturi: optional, can be used for increased safety to delete only intended messages
  • friendica_verbose: "true" enables different error returns (default: "false")

Return values

On success:

  • JSON return as defined for Twitter API not yet implemented
  • on friendica_verbose=true: JSON return {"result":"ok","message":"message deleted"}

On error: HTTP 400 BadRequest

  • on friendica_verbose=true: different JSON returns {"result":"error","message":"xyz"}

favorites (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • user_id
  • screen_name

Favorites aren't displayed to other users, so "user_id" and "screen_name" are unsupported. Set this values will result in an empty array.

favorites/create (POST,PUT; AUTH)

Parameters

  • id
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

favorites/destroy (POST,DELETE; AUTH)

Parameters

  • id
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

followers/ids (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • stringify_ids: Should the id numbers be sent as text (true) or number (false)? (default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • user_id
  • screen_name
  • cursor

Friendica doesn't allow showing followers of other users.

friends/ids (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • stringify_ids: Should the id numbers be sent as text (true) or number (false)? (default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • user_id
  • screen_name
  • cursor

Friendica doesn't allow showing friends of other users.

help/test (*)

media/upload (POST,PUT; AUTH)

Parameters

  • media: image data

oauth/request_token (*)

Parameters

  • oauth_callback

Unsupported parameters

  • x_auth_access_type

oauth/access_token (*)

Parameters

  • oauth_verifier

Unsupported parameters

  • x_auth_password
  • x_auth_username
  • x_auth_mode

statuses/destroy (POST,DELETE; AUTH)

Parameters

  • id: message number
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • trim_user

statuses/followers (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

statuses/friends (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

statuses/friends_timeline (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • exclude_replies: don't show replies (default: false)
  • conversation_id: Shows all statuses of a given conversation.
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • include_rts
  • trim_user
  • contributor_details

statuses/home_timeline (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • exclude_replies: don't show replies (default: false)
  • conversation_id: Shows all statuses of a given conversation.
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • include_rts
  • trim_user
  • contributor_details

statuses/mentions (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • include_rts
  • trim_user
  • contributor_details

statuses/public_timeline (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • exclude_replies: don't show replies (default: false)
  • conversation_id: Shows all statuses of a given conversation.
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • trim_user

statuses/replies (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • include_rts
  • trim_user
  • contributor_details

statuses/retweet (POST,PUT; AUTH)

Parameters

  • id: message number
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • trim_user

statuses/show (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • id: message number
  • conversation: if set to "1" show all messages of the conversation with the given id
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • include_my_retweet
  • trim_user

statuses/update, statuses/update_with_media

Parameters

  • title: Title of the status
  • status: Status in text format
  • htmlstatus: Status in HTML format
  • in_reply_to_status_id
  • lat: latitude
  • long: longitude
  • media: image data
  • source: Application name
  • group_allow
  • contact_allow
  • group_deny
  • contact_deny
  • network
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)
  • media_ids: (By now only a single value, no array)

Unsupported parameters

  • trim_user
  • place_id
  • display_coordinates

statuses/user_timeline (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • user_id: id of the user
  • screen_name: screen name (for technical reasons, this value is not unique!)
  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • exclude_replies: don't show replies (default: false)
  • conversation_id: Shows all statuses of a given conversation.
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • include_rts
  • trim_user
  • contributor_details

statusnet/config (*)

statusnet/conversation (*; AUTH)

It shows all direct answers (excluding the original post) to a given id.

Parameter

  • id: id of the post
  • count: Items per page (default: 20)
  • page: page number
  • since_id: minimal id
  • max_id: maximum id
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

statusnet/version (*)

Unsupported parameters

  • user_id
  • screen_name
  • cursor

Friendica doesn't allow showing followers of other users.

users/search (*)

Parameters

  • q: name of the user

Unsupported parameters

  • page
  • count
  • include_entities

users/show (*)

Parameters

  • user_id: id of the user
  • screen_name: screen name (for technical reasons, this value is not unique!)
  • include_entities: "true" shows entities for pictures and links (Default: false)

Unsupported parameters

  • user_id
  • screen_name
  • cursor

Friendica doesn't allow showing friends of other users.

Implemented API calls (not compatible with other APIs)

friendica/activity/

parameters

  • id: item id

Add or remove an activity from an item. 'verb' can be one of:

  • like
  • dislike
  • attendyes
  • attendno
  • attendmaybe

To remove an activity, prepend the verb with "un", eg. "unlike" or "undislike" Attend verbs disable eachother: that means that if "attendyes" was added to an item, adding "attendno" remove previous "attendyes". Attend verbs should be used only with event-related items (there is no check at the moment)

Return values

On success: json "ok"

xml <ok>true</ok>

On error: HTTP 400 BadRequest

friendica/group_show (*; AUTH)

Return all or a specified group of the user with the containing contacts as array.

Parameters

  • gid: optional, if not given, API returns all groups of the user

Return values

Array of:

  • name: name of the group
  • gid: id of the group
  • user: array of group members (return from api_get_user() function for each member)

friendica/group_delete (POST,DELETE; AUTH)

delete the specified group of contacts; API call need to include the correct gid AND name of the group to be deleted.

Parameters

  • gid: id of the group to be deleted
  • name: name of the group to be deleted

Return values

Array of:

  • success: true if successfully deleted
  • gid: gid of the deleted group
  • name: name of the deleted group
  • status: „deleted“ if successfully deleted
  • wrong users: empty array

friendica/group_create (POST,PUT; AUTH)

Create the group with the posted array of contacts as members.

Parameters

  • name: name of the group to be created

POST data

JSON data as Array like the result of "users/group_show":

  • gid
  • name
  • array of users

Return values

Array of:

  • success: true if successfully created or reactivated
  • gid: gid of the created group
  • name: name of the created group
  • status: „missing user“ | „reactivated“ | „ok“
  • wrong users: array of users, which were not available in the contact table

friendica/group_update (POST)

Update the group with the posted array of contacts as members (post all members of the group to the call; function will remove members not posted).

Parameters

  • gid: id of the group to be changed
  • name: name of the group to be changed

POST data

JSON data as array like the result of „users/group_show“:

  • gid
  • name
  • array of users

Return values

Array of:

  • success: true if successfully updated
  • gid: gid of the changed group
  • name: name of the changed group
  • status: „missing user“ | „ok“
  • wrong users: array of users, which were not available in the contact table

friendica/notifications (GET)

Return last 50 notification for current user, ordered by date with unseen item on top

Parameters

none

Return values

Array of:

  • id: id of the note
  • type: type of notification as int (see NOTIFY_* constants in boot.php)
  • name: full name of the contact subject of the note
  • url: contact's profile url
  • photo: contact's profile photo
  • date: datetime string of the note
  • timestamp: timestamp of the node
  • date_rel: relative date of the note (eg. "1 hour ago")
  • msg: note message in bbcode
  • msg_html: note message in html
  • msg_plain: note message in plain text
  • link: link to note
  • seen: seen state: 0 or 1

friendica/notifications/seen (POST)

Set note as seen, returns item object if possible

Parameters

id: id of the note to set seen

Return values

If the note is linked to an item, the item is returned, just like one of the "statuses/*_timeline" api.

If the note is not linked to an item, a success status is returned:

  • "success" (json) | "<status>success</status>" (xml)

friendica/photo (*; AUTH)

Parameters

  • photo_id: Resource id of a photo.
  • scale: (optional) scale value of the photo

Returns data of a picture with the given resource. If 'scale' isn't provided, returned data include full url to each scale of the photo. If 'scale' is set, returned data include image data base64 encoded.

possibile scale value are:

  • 0: original or max size by server settings
  • 1: image with or height at <= 640
  • 2: image with or height at <= 320
  • 3: thumbnail 160x160
  • 4: Profile image at 175x175
  • 5: Profile image at 80x80
  • 6: Profile image at 48x48

An image used as profile image has only scale 4-6, other images only 0-3

Return values

json

	{
		"id": "photo id"
		"created": "date(YYYY-MM-GG HH:MM:SS)",
		"edited": "date(YYYY-MM-GG HH:MM:SS)",
		"title": "photo title",
		"desc": "photo description",
		"album": "album name",
		"filename": "original file name",
		"type": "mime type",
		"height": "number",
		"width": "number",
		"profile": "1 if is profile photo",
		"link": {
			"<scale>": "url to image"
			...
		},
		// if 'scale' is set
		"datasize": "size in byte",
		"data": "base64 encoded image data"
	}

xml

	<photo>
		<id>photo id</id>
		<created>date(YYYY-MM-GG HH:MM:SS)</created>
		<edited>date(YYYY-MM-GG HH:MM:SS)</edited>
		<title>photo title</title>
		<desc>photo description</desc>
		<album>album name</album>
		<filename>original file name</filename>
		<type>mime type</type>
		<height>number</height>
		<width>number</width>
		<profile>1 if is profile photo</profile>
		<links type="array">
		<link type="mime type" scale="scale number" href="image url"/>
			...
		</links>
	</photo>

friendica/photos/list (*; AUTH)

Returns a list of all photo resources of the logged in user.

Return values

json

	[
		{
			id: "resource_id",
			album: "album name",
			filename: "original file name",
			type: "image mime type",
			thumb: "url to thumb sized image"
		},
		...
	]

xml

	<photos type="array">
		<photo id="resource_id"
		album="album name"
		filename="original file name"
		type="image mime type">
			"url to thumb sized image"
		</photo>
		...
	</photos>

friendica/direct_messages_setseen (GET; AUTH)

Parameters

  • id: id of the message to be updated as seen

Return values

On success:

  • JSON return {"result":"ok","message":"message set to seen"}

On error:

  • different JSON returns {"result":"error","message":"xyz"}

friendica/direct_messages_search (GET; AUTH)

Parameters

  • searchstring: string for which the API call should search as '%searchstring%' in field 'body' of all messages of the authenticated user (caption ignored)

Return values

Returns only tested with JSON, XML might work as well.

On success:

  • JSON return {"success":"true","search_results": array of found messages}
  • JSOn return {"success":"false","search_results":"nothing found"}

On error:

  • different JSON returns {"result":"error","message":"searchstring not specified"}

Not Implemented API calls

The following API calls are implemented in GNU Social but not in Friendica: (incomplete)

  • statuses/retweets_of_me
  • friendships/create
  • friendships/destroy
  • friendships/exists
  • friendships/show
  • account/update_profile_background_image
  • account/update_profile_image
  • blocks/create
  • blocks/destroy

The following API calls from the Twitter API aren't implemented neither in Friendica nor in GNU Social:

  • statuses/mentions_timeline
  • statuses/retweets/:id
  • statuses/oembed
  • statuses/retweeters/ids
  • statuses/lookup
  • direct_messages/show
  • search/tweets
  • friendships/no_retweets/ids
  • friendships/incoming
  • friendships/outgoing
  • friendships/update
  • friends/list
  • friendships/lookup
  • account/settings
  • account/update_delivery_device
  • account/update_profile
  • account/update_profile_background_image
  • account/update_profile_image
  • blocks/list
  • blocks/ids
  • users/lookup
  • users/show
  • users/search
  • account/remove_profile_banner
  • account/update_profile_banner
  • users/profile_banner
  • mutes/users/create
  • mutes/users/destroy
  • mutes/users/ids
  • mutes/users/list
  • users/suggestions/:slug
  • users/suggestions
  • users/suggestions/:slug/members
  • favorites/list
  • lists/list
  • lists/statuses
  • lists/members/destroy
  • lists/memberships
  • lists/subscribers
  • lists/subscribers/create
  • lists/subscribers/show
  • lists/subscribers/destroy
  • lists/members/create_all
  • lists/members/show
  • lists/members
  • lists/members/create
  • lists/destroy
  • lists/update
  • lists/create
  • lists/show
  • lists/subscriptions
  • lists/members/destroy_all
  • lists/ownerships
  • saved_searches/list
  • saved_searches/show/:id
  • saved_searches/create
  • saved_searches/destroy/:id
  • geo/id/:place_id
  • geo/reverse_geocode
  • geo/search
  • geo/place
  • trends/place
  • trends/available
  • help/configuration
  • help/languages
  • help/privacy
  • help/tos
  • trends/closest
  • users/report_spam

Usage Examples

BASH / cURL

Betamax has documentated some example API usage from a [bash script](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell) employing curl (see his posting).

/usr/bin/curl -u USER:PASS https://YOUR.FRIENDICA.TLD/api/statuses/update.xml -d source="some source id" -d status="the status you want to post"

Python

The RSStoFriedika code can be used as an example of how to use the API with python. The lines for posting are located at line 21 and following.

def tweet(server, message, group_allow=None): url = server + '/api/statuses/update' urllib2.urlopen(url, urllib.urlencode({'status': message,'group_allow[]':group_allow}, doseq=True))

There is also a module for python 3 for using the API.