Follow & Block API Documentation

Follow user

GET 'api/users/<username>/follow/'

• Author: Bengisu Özaydın

• Definition: Allows a user to follow another user

• Example Response Value:

  {
      "message": "Successfully followed user."
  }

• Example Failure Value:

  {
      "username": [
          "User does not exist."
      ]
  }

• Parameters

  Parameter	Description	Parameter Type	Data Type
  username	Name of followed user	Path	String

• Response Messages

  • 200: Followed.
  • 400: Bad request.

Unfollow user

GET 'api/users/<username>/unfollow/'

• Author: Bengisu Özaydın

• Definition: Allows a user to unfollow another user

• Example Response Value:

  {
      "message": "Successfully unfollowed user."
  }

• Example Failure Value:

  {
      "username": [
          "User does not exist."
      ]
  }

• Parameters

  Parameter	Description	Parameter Type	Data Type
  username	Name of unfollowed user	Path	String

• Response Messages

  • 200: Unfollowed.
  • 400: Bad request.

Get followings of user

GET 'api/users/<username>/followings/'

• Author: Bengisu Özaydın

• Definition: Allows a user to see users followed by a user

• Example Response Value:

  {
      "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
      "summary": "Users Sally follows.",
      "type": "Collection",
      "total_items": 1,
      "items": [
          {
              "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
              "summary": "Sally followed John",
              "type": "Follow",
              "actor": {
                  "type": "Person",
                  "name": "Sally"
              },
              "object": {
                  "type": "Person",
                  "identifier": "John"
              }
          }
      ]
  }

• Example Failure Value:

  {
      "username": [
          "User does not exist."
      ]
  }

• Parameters

  Parameter	Description	Parameter Type	Data Type
  username	Name of user to get followings of	Path	String

• Response Messages

  • 200: OK.
  • 400: Bad request.

Get followers of user

GET 'api/users/<username>/followers/'

• Author: Bengisu Özaydın

• Definition: Allows a user to see users following a user

• Example Response Value:

  {
      "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
      "summary": "Users following Sally.",
      "type": "Collection",
      "total_items": 2,
      "items": [
          {
              "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
              "summary": "John followed Sally",
              "type": "Follow",
              "actor": {
                  "type": "Person",
                  "name": "John"
              },
              "object": {
                  "type": "Person",
                  "identifier": "Sally"
              }
          },
          {
              "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
              "summary": "James followed Sally",
              "type": "Follow",
              "actor": {
                  "type": "Person",
                  "name": "James"
              },
              "object": {
                  "type": "Person",
                  "identifier": "Sally"
              }
          }
  
      ]
  }

• Example Failure Value:

  {
      "username": [
          "User does not exist."
      ]
  }

• Parameters

  Parameter	Description	Parameter Type	Data Type
  username	Name of user to get followers of	Path	String

• Response Messages

  • 200: OK.
  • 400: Bad request.

Block user

GET 'api/users/<username>/block/'

• Author: Bengisu Özaydın

• Definition: Allows a user to block another user

• Example Response Value:

  {
      "message": "Successfully blocked user."
  }

• Example Failure Value:

  {
      "username": [
          "User does not exist."
      ]
  }

• Parameters

  Parameter	Description	Parameter Type	Data Type
  username	Name of blocked user	Path	String

• Response Messages

• 200: Blocked.

• 400: Bad request.

Unblock user

GET 'api/users/<username>/unblock/'

• Author: Bengisu Özaydın

• Definition: Allows a user to unblock another user

• Example Response Value:

  {
      "message": "Successfully unblocked user."
  }

• Example Failure Value:

  {
      "username": [
          "User does not exist."
      ]
  }

• Parameters

  Parameter	Description	Parameter Type	Data Type
  username	Name of unblocked user	Path	String

• Response Messages

• 200: Unblocked.

• 400: Bad request.

Get blockings of user

GET 'api/users/<username>/blockings/'

• Author: Bengisu Özaydın

• Definition: Allows a user to see the blocked users

• Example Response Value:

  {
      "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
      "summary": "Users Sally blocked.",
      "type": "Collection",
      "total_items": 1,
      "items": [
          {
              "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
              "summary": "Sally blocked John",
              "type": "Block",
              "actor": {
                  "type": "Person",
                  "name": "Sally"
              },
              "object": {
                  "type": "Person",
                  "identifier": "John"
              }
          }
      ]
  }

• Example Failure Value:

  {
      "username": [
          "User does not exist."
      ]
  }

• Parameters

  Parameter	Description	Parameter Type	Data Type
  username	Name of user to get blockings of	Path	String

• Response Messages

• 200: OK.

• 400: Bad request.

Get blockers of user

GET 'api/users/<username>/blockers/'

• Author: Bengisu Özaydın

• Definition: Allows to get users that blocked a user

• Example Response Value:

  {
      "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
      "summary": "Users that blocked Sally.",
      "type": "Collection",
      "total_items": 1,
      "items": [
          {
              "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
              "summary": "John blocked Sally",
              "type": "Block",
              "actor": {
                  "type": "Person",
                  "name": "John"
              },
              "object": {
                  "type": "Person",
                  "identifier": "Sally"
              }
          }
      ]
  }

• Example Failure Value:

  {
      "username": [
          "User does not exist."
      ]
  }

• Parameters

  Parameter	Description	Parameter Type	Data Type
  username	Name of user to get blockers of	Path	String

• Response Messages

• 200: OK.

• 400: Bad request.