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  • I’m not familiar with n8n but it’s fairly straightforward on the API side.

    You’ll need a session token, also known as JWT, which you can get from logging in.

    You typically don’t want to do a login for every post, so you’ll want to store that as a persistent value.
    For authentication, you can pass the header authorization: Bearer {jwt}, with {jwt} being the session token.

    https://join-lemmy.org/api/classes/LemmyHttp.html contains the API documentation.

    You’ll need to figure out the id of the community that you want to post to.

    If you need to look it up, you can use getCommunity to fetch its details. Afterwards you can use createPost to submit it.

    The form links for the methods explain the request body json values that should be provided.






  • delegating authentication to another service.

    one of the more commonly known options would be sign in with google, but this is also quite useful for providers hosting multiple services. a provider could host a service that handles authentication and then you only have to login once and will automatically get logged in for their lemmy, xmpp, wiki and other services they might be providing.


  • do you happen to have experience with setting up influxdb and telegraf? or maybe something else that might be better suited?

    the metrics are currently in prometheus metrics format and scraped every 5 minutes.

    my idea was to keep the current retention for most metrics and have longer retention (possibly with lower granularity for data older than a month).

    the current prometheus setup is super simple, you can see (and older copy of) the config here.

    if you want to build a configuration for influxdb/telegraf that i can more or less just drop in there without too many adjustments that would certainly be welcomed.

    the metric that would need longer retention is lemmy_federation_state_last_successful_id_local.