Grebe API

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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]&amp;user_id=[user_id]&amp;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&amp;author=jr`   
`/posts/?type=draft&amp;author=jr`   
`/posts/?sortby=modified`  
`/posts/?page=3`  
`/posts/?author=jr`  

**To-Do:** support  
`/posts/?year=2014&amp;month=05&amp;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`