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Grebe API

Grebe blogging API description. It's currently being used at http://maketoledo.soupmode.com.

It uses REST and JSON.

Each function below is preceded with /api/v1 in the URI. So for Soupmode, it would be http://soupmode.com/api/v1.

Example of activating a new user account:
http://soupmode.com/api/v1/users/activate/ru8wkn0ol2ql3bm9

At the moment, I don't have SSL enabled at Soupmode.com, and OAuth is not used. Strengthening authentication is on the to-do list.

Users

Except for activating a user account, URIs for GETs and PUTs end with the query string:
/?user_name=[user_name]&user_id=[user_id]&session_id=[session_id]

• Retrieve profile page info for user name JR.
  GET request.
  /users/JR

• Create a new user account.
  POST request.
  /users
  Client sends JSON to the API:
  { "user_name" : "userA", "email" : "usera@usera.com" }

• Activate user account.
  GET request.
  /users/activate/[user_digest]

• Logout user JR.
  GET request.
  /users/JR/logout

• Login user.
  Post request.
  /users/login
  Client sends JSON to the API:
  { "email" : "usera@usera.com", "password" : "plaintextpwd" }

• Retrieve new password for existing account. User would not be logged in. This would be executed for someone who forgot or lost a password.
  POST request.
  /users/password
  Client sends JSON to the API:
  { "user_name" : "userA", "email" : "usera@usera.com" }

• Change password for existing account. User must be logged-in.
  PUT request.
  /users/password

• Update e-mail and/or profile description for the user.
  PUT request.
  /users

Articles

For GET requests, each URI ends with the query string:
/?user_name=[user_name]&user_id=[user_id]&session_id=[session_id]

The POST requests will also need the above name=value pairs encoded and sent to the API.

Example displaying article number 5:
GET request.
http://soupmode.com/api/v1/messages/5/?user_name=JR&user_id=23&session_id=ru8er03jjg3k40vjl09

• Show all messages created by or sent to the logged-in user. This message stream is displayed on the site's homepage.
  GET request.
  /messages

• Show page three of the stream.
  GET request.
  /messages/page/3

• Retrieve message ID number 5.
  GET request.
  /messages/5

• Create a new message.
  POST request.
  /messages
  In addition to the name=value logged-in credentials listed above, the client sends the following JSON to the API:
  { "message_text" : "this is the message text." }

• Retrieve all reply messages for message ID number 5.
  GET request.
  /messages/5/replies