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Getting your local instance's URL for an external status on Mastodon
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| const instance = "https://rheinneckar.social"; | |
| async function getLocalPost(url) { | |
| const encodedUrl = encodeURIComponent(url); | |
| const resp = await fetch(`${instance}/api/v2/search?q=${encodedUrl}&resolve=true&limit=1`, { credentials: "include" }); | |
| const data = await resp.json(); | |
| const status = data.statuses[0]; | |
| const id = status.id; | |
| const acct = status.account.acct; | |
| return `${instance}/${acct}/${id}`; | |
| } | |
| console.log(await getLocalPost("https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma/109428469327665227")); |
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@niklaskorz Thank you, that was useful today, but in my case Line 10 had to be adapted (notice the
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