Feature: KBIN API Integation // Merged view of Communities & Magazines

[samuk]

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I would like to see both communities and magazines displayed in a single view.

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I can subscribe to either, I don't really care if it's a magazine or a community.

[tgxn]

The main reasons I separated these are because the API isn't stable, and the data that is available for each is vastly different (ie. for communities I can get growth data, user activity, post counts, etc; for kbin, there is nothing)

I don't have a way to integrate these two lists without a way to sort kbin instances into them (having data on user/description/banner etc)

[tgxn]

Also, the kbin crawling is using this script which is not ideal. without these features improving in kbin, it's a bit hard to manage.

[samuk]

Hopefully this WIP API pull will make that possible https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/357

[tgxn]

#150 relates to missing some kbin instances, likely due to the poor crawling method.

when the api is updated and the instances are merged, we will be able to have the same or similar filters as on the community list.

[FitikWasTaken]

@tgxn I wanted to let you know that mbin (kbin fork) has API, and it's pretty active you can check for yourself, perhaps instances using it could be merged?

https://fedidb.org/software/mbin
https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin
https://kbin.melroy.org/api/docs

[tgxn]

does this software report software: kbin or mbin ? I'd have to add another scraper for these.. :/

Edit: yes, different software:

[FitikWasTaken]

@tgxn Any news on mbin?

[tgxn]

@FitikWasTaken have been busy with some other projects lately, and any kbin/mbin integration has taken a backseat, since the primary goal of this project is still with Lemmy.

I'd have to investigate their api and write a custom handler for something that's currently only deployed on a small percentage of the fediverse... within the next year :D

[tgxn]

Looks like the Magazine crawling has once again broken :(

Will have to look and see how the API changes are going for KBIN.

[FitikWasTaken]

@tgxn Kbin is sadly abounded at the moment, so there's no much point, last activity from it's main dev was 6 months ago, and kbin.social flagship instance has been down almost constantly for the last few weeks

However kbin fork, mbin is doing well, I already linked it's API

https://docs.joinmbin.org/03-3rd_party_developer/