tvler, 1 year ago

Better spacing, larger photos, smaller timestring

tvler, 1 year ago

👋 Are there any #activitypub engineers out there who’d be down to chat with me (a federated eng newbie) about best practices for setting up a lightweight federated server to achieve this new StreetPass UI (see prev posts in thread)? #mastodev

tvler, 1 year ago

Here’s my best guess for what I think I need to do:

• Add API endpoints to streetpass.social that returns profile photo, display name & handle for a given federated profile URL (or null if the link isn’t a federated profile)
• Set up signing keys etc on the backend to handle “secure mode” servers https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#authorized_fetch
• Call this api in my browser extension

booligoosh, 1 year ago

@tvler

For 1Feed I needed to do a similar thing, I think ActivityPub is overkill. I just request the profile URL as HTML then use Cheerio to parse and run selectors on it:

Profile pic - meta[property="og:image"]

Username - meta[property="profile:username"]

For the display name, there's no dedicated attribute. But you can get the <title> and then remove the brackets at the end which contain the known username, leaving the display name.

Secure mode servers still return HTML so that's fine.

tvler, 1 year ago

@booligoosh heh check it out I already implemented the activitypub solution! https://streetpass.social/api/get-profile?url=https://fosstodon.org/@booligoosh

https://github.com/tvler/streetpass/blob/main/api/pages/api/get-profile.tsx