distraction.party/docs/api/differences_in_mastoapi_responses.md

Differences in Mastodon API responses from vanilla Mastodon

A Pleroma instance can be identified by " (compatible; Pleroma )" present in version field in response from /api/v1/instance

Flake IDs

Pleroma uses 128-bit ids as opposed to Mastodon's 64 bits. However just like Mastodon's ids they are sortable strings

Attachment cap

Some apps operate under the assumption that no more than 4 attachments can be returned or uploaded. Pleroma however does not enforce any limits on attachment count neither when returning the status object nor when posting.

Timelines

Adding the parameter with_muted=true to the timeline queries will also return activities by muted (not by blocked!) users.

Statuses

Has these additional fields under the pleroma object:

• local: true if the post was made on the local instance.
• conversation_id: the ID of the conversation the status is associated with (if any)
• in_reply_to_account_acct: the acct property of User entity for replied user (if any)
• content: a map consisting of alternate representations of the content property with the key being it's mimetype. Currently the only alternate representation supported is text/plain
• spoiler_text: a map consisting of alternate representations of the spoiler_text property with the key being it's mimetype. Currently the only alternate representation supported is text/plain

Attachments

Has these additional fields under the pleroma object:

• mime_type: mime type of the attachment.

Accounts

• /api/v1/accounts/:id: The id parameter can also be the nickname of the user. This only works in this endpoint, not the deeper nested ones for following etc.

Has these additional fields under the pleroma object:

• tags: Lists an array of tags for the user
• relationship{}: Includes fields as documented for Mastodon API https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/entities/#relationship
• is_moderator: boolean, nullable, true if user is a moderator
• is_admin: boolean, nullable, true if user is an admin
• confirmation_pending: boolean, true if a new user account is waiting on email confirmation to be activated
• hide_followers: boolean, true when the user has follower hiding enabled
• hide_follows: boolean, true when the user has follow hiding enabled
• settings_store: A generic map of settings for frontends. Opaque to the backend. Only returned in verify_credentials and update_credentials
• chat_token: The token needed for Pleroma chat. Only returned in verify_credentials

Source

Has these additional fields under the pleroma object:

• show_role: boolean, nullable, true when the user wants his role (e.g admin, moderator) to be shown
• no_rich_text - boolean, nullable, true when html tags are stripped from all statuses requested from the API

Account Search

Behavior has changed:

• /api/v1/accounts/search: Does not require authentication

Notifications

Has these additional fields under the pleroma object:

• is_seen: true if the notification was read by the user

POST /api/v1/statuses

Additional parameters can be added to the JSON body/Form data:

• preview: boolean, if set to true the post won't be actually posted, but the status entitiy would still be rendered back. This could be useful for previewing rich text/custom emoji, for example.
• content_type: string, contain the MIME type of the status, it is transformed into HTML by the backend. You can get the list of the supported MIME types with the nodeinfo endpoint.
• to: A list of nicknames (like lain@soykaf.club or lain on the local server) that will be used to determine who is going to be addressed by this post. Using this will disable the implicit addressing by mentioned names in the status body, only the people in the to list will be addressed. The normal rules for for post visibility are not affected by this and will still apply.

PATCH /api/v1/update_credentials

Additional parameters can be added to the JSON body/Form data:

• no_rich_text - if true, html tags are stripped from all statuses requested from the API
• hide_followers - if true, user's followers will be hidden
• hide_follows - if true, user's follows will be hidden
• hide_favorites - if true, user's favorites timeline will be hidden
• show_role - if true, user's role (e.g admin, moderator) will be exposed to anyone in the API
• default_scope - the scope returned under privacy key in Source subentity
• pleroma_settings_store - Opaque user settings to be saved on the backend.
• skip_thread_containment - if true, skip filtering out broken threads
• pleroma_background_image - sets the background image of the user.

Pleroma Settings Store

Pleroma has mechanism that allows frontends to save blobs of json for each user on the backend. This can be used to save frontend-specific settings for a user that the backend does not need to know about.

The parameter should have a form of {frontend_name: {...}}, with frontend_name identifying your type of client, e.g. pleroma_fe. It will overwrite everything under this property, but will not overwrite other frontend's settings.

This information is returned in the verify_credentials endpoint.

Authentication

*Pleroma supports refreshing tokens.

POST /oauth/token Post here request with grant_type=refresh_token to obtain new access token. Returns an access token.

Account Registration

POST /api/v1/accounts

Has theses additionnal parameters (which are the same as in Pleroma-API): * fullname: optional * bio: optional * captcha_solution: optional, contains provider-specific captcha solution, * captcha_token: optional, contains provider-specific captcha token * token: invite token required when the registerations aren't public.