Accessing TinyTiny RSS API

gmelchett · June 9, 2022, 4:32pm

Hi,

I’m considering writing a TinyTinyRSS text mode client. But I’ve not been able to
figure out how to access the API over Yunohost’s security layer.

According to: https://tt-rss.org/wiki/ApiReference
curl -d '{"op":"login","user":"you","password":"xxx"}' http://example.com/tt-rss/api/
should work (with proper login+url) I hoped that adding --anyauth -u user -L to curl
would to the job, but nope. curl just returns the login page.
So how to access the API? What security standard is used?
Thanks!

ericg · June 9, 2022, 5:09pm

the /api path as a permission set and should be reachable (but it is not… I get a 500 error)

github.com

YunoHost-Apps/ttrss_ynh/blob/009f956487d1580b71a2bd250418854d8e094185/scripts/install#L164

      
        
            #=================================================
            # SETUP SSOWAT
            #=================================================
            ynh_script_progression --message="Configuring permissions..." --weight=1
            
            
if [ $is_public -eq 1 ]
            then
            	ynh_permission_update --permission="main" --add="visitors"
            fi
            
            
ynh_permission_create --permission="api" --url="/api" --allowed="visitors" --show_tile="false" --protected="true"
            
            
#=================================================
            # RELOAD NGINX
            #=================================================
            ynh_script_progression --message="Reloading NGINX web server..." --weight=2
            
            
ynh_systemd_action --service_name=nginx --action=reload
            
            
#=================================================
            # END OF SCRIPT

lnoferin · June 9, 2022, 5:17pm

Do you know https://newsboat.org? It is working for me with my ttrss installation.

gmelchett · June 10, 2022, 11:32am

Thanks, I’ll have a look at how newsboat is handling the login.