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Posted by Nixon Pang
Nixon Pang
1,224 Points

Create a forum-based app

I am planning on creating an app for a forum. However there is no api for that and Im wondering how to create one without api.

Thanks in advance.

Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points

What forum are you using?

Some forums will display posts in RSS/JSON which you can then use in an app (You can grab this data and display it).

I think the only difficulty would be to actually post an update on the forum (This could be done via browser or a WebView pretty easily in most cases). There probably is a better way to do this, however ^

Nixon Pang
Nixon Pang
1,224 Points

bitcointalk.org There is one unofficial api for it but it cant login and post replies.

Thanks

Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points

There is some detail on their API here: http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF_API (bitcointalk.org is powered by SMF (Simple Machines Forum)) but, I still could not find something for posting replies. There probably is an option to do this but, I don't see a page listing all of the possible calls on their site.

It looks to me to be PHP based which is something I've only recently started learning. It's a relatively simple language but gets confusing after learning Java!