• Users
• Posts

Grebe API

Grebe is the name of a blogging app. This is Grebe's API description. It's currently used at http://maketoledo.com.

It uses REST and JSON.

Each function below is preceded with /api/v1 in the URI, so for Make Toledo, it would be http://maketoledo.com/api/v1.

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

At the moment, I don't have SSL enabled for MakeToledo.com, and OAuth is not used.

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]

• 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]

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

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

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

• 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" }

• Update password for existing account. User must be logged-in.
  PUT request.
  /users/password Client sends JSON to the API:
  { "old_password" : "oldpwdtext", "new_password" : "newpwdtxt", "verify_password" : "newpwdtxt", "user_name" : "userA", "user_id" : 123 }
  Client code also packages up the login data for user_name, user_id, and session_id into the PUT request.
  To-Do: remove the redundant information.

• Update e-mail and/or profile description for the user.
  PUT request.
  /users Client sends JSON to the API:
  { "user_name" : "userA", "user_id" : 123, "desc_markup" : "my profile page info for others to view.", "email" : "usera@usera.com" }
  Client code also packages up the login data for user_name, user_id, and session_id into the PUT request.
  To-Do: remove the redundant information.

Posts

• Show stream of posts.
  GET request.
  /posts
  /posts/?type=note
  /posts/?type=draft
  /posts/?sortby=modified
  /posts/?page=3
  /posts/?author=jr
  To-Do: support /posts/?year=2014&month=05&day=02

• Retrieve single post.
  GET request.
  /posts/5
  /posts/5?/text=markup
  /posts/5/?text=html
  To-Do: support /posts/5/?fields=title,uri_title,created_date,etc.

• Retrieve list of related posts.
  GET request.
  /posts/5/?related=yes