From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for forums? Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:48:21 -0700 Message-ID: <87sh4xur3e.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87y3eryk80.fsf@openmail.cc> <874lhfop7f.fsf@127.0.0.1> <87in5vbzv3.fsf@openmail.cc> <8736wycp8h.fsf@openmail.cc> <9FC04800-4439-485E-A718-03566E9814E3@gmail.com> <87y3epb6xd.fsf@openmail.cc> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530838207 1408 195.159.176.226 (6 Jul 2018 00:50:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 00:50:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 02:50:03 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fbEwj-0000CC-Io for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:50:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55316 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbEyq-0006rv-M7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33182) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbEyJ-0006rm-KU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbEyG-0000IQ-EJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:51:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54132 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbEyG-0000GE-78 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2018 20:51:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fbEw3-0007rq-Oo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:49:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:hSCtOU8t5k5caHQeXoNqoES3cPo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117368 Archived-At: Skip Montanaro writes: > Count me in as someone who would appreciate a non-native interface to > forums. In addition to wanting an interface better integrated with > Usenet and email, some of the forum sites have annoying properties it > would be nice to paper over. Do any of these forum sites support > REST-ish APIs? How do phone-based apps like Tapatalk communicate with > these forum sites? Are they just glorified web scrapers? I would also like this. For fun I looked at the Arch Linux bbs, which turns out to use something called FluxBB, which turns out to have had a couple abortive attempts at adding a rest API, the most recent of which fizzled out in 2016. Oh well. Perhaps Hacker News would be a good (relatively simple) first testing ground. Eric