Getting URL of post from API

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I'm developing an addition to my RSS script that will automatically post a tweet to twitter that will trigger each time a new post is created by the script above. Ideally, I am looking to obtain the URL for the post itself, but do not see this in the JSON output.

Is there a way to get this ?

Thanks

clarkwinkelmann

[deleted] because Flarum uses both a frontend URL builder and a backend URL builder, we haven't implemented a way to get the frontend resource URL from the API.

By creating an extension, you could add an attribute to the backend serializer that's made from the backend URL builder.

The URL can be obtained with

$url->to('forum')->route('discussion', ['id' => $post->discussion_id, 'near' => $post->number]),

$url is an instance of Flarum\Http\UrlGenerator which can be resolved via dependency injection or app(Flarum\Http\UrlGenerator::class)

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clarkwinkelmann thanks. Is it at all possible to get the URL from the database as the last inserted record ?

clarkwinkelmann

[deleted] I'm not sure what you mean by that?

If your script is for your own forum only, you could hard-code the URL structure and build it from what's in the API payload, similar to how the Frontend does it. Unless you use an extension to change it, it'll be `<forum baseUrl>/d/<discussion id>-<discussion slug>/<post number>

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clarkwinkelmann what I meant was that is the URL recorded in the database ? If so, I could just get that from the last inserted via MySql

askvortsov

[deleted] the full url isn't, but all you need to generate it is the post number and discussion id (the slug part is optional)

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askvortsov thanks. I guess I can use MySql last insert 👍