Daniel Hiebeler @daniebeler@techhub.social
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Hello @dansup ,
We are working on socialfolio.me and would like to add a widget variant for the Pixelfed widget where we want to display the newest few posts of the user. For that we somehow need to get user ID from instance domain and username. On Mastodon the lookup endpoint is available without authentication, but on Pixelfed this endpoint can only be reached with an auth token. Is there a reason for that or would it theoretically be possible to make this route public?

Accessible on mastodon:
mastodon.social/api/v1/account

Not accessible on Pixelfed:
pixelfed.social/api/v1/account

Or is there another way of getting the user ID from instance and username?

Socialfolio

Showcase your Mastodon, Pixelfed, website, and more – an open-source platform to share all your socials easily in one link.

socialfolio.me

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