API Client for Lemmy • remmy

An HTTP API client for Lemmy in R.

Code and documentation are generated from the official JavaScript client source.

Lemmy version: 0.18.1

Installation

You can install the released version of remmy from CRAN:

install.packages("remmy")

Or install the development version of remmy from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("long39ng/remmy")

Example

library(remmy)

example_comment <- lemmy_get_comment(546564)

example_comment$comment_view$comment$content
#> [1] "I am not by nature a sentimental person regarding software but I will truly miss RiF."

Acknowledgements

Source code generation was made possible by:

ts-morph for navigating the TypeScript AST of the official JavaScript client source and extracting the HTTP request methods into JSON.
jsonlite for parsing objects from JSON to R.
rlang (and the metaprogramming capabilities of R) for programmatically generating function definitions and parameter and return type documentation.