Invalid URLs

Developers
1

Guten Morgen!

I’m working on an API client and faced two issues I would like to share here:

Issue 1

The request

GET https://micro.blog/users/discover/manton

returned a user with an invalid URL.

    {
        "name": "Larry Mintz",
        "url": "http://www.artmajeur.com/azoth; http://presidentoftheearth.org",
        "avatar": "https://micro.blog/DrFrankenshroom/avatar.jpg",
        "username": "DrFrankenshroom",
        "is_following": false,
        "is_you": false
    }

Issue 2

The request

GET https://micro.blog/posts/discover/music

returned an empty author url:

        {
            "id": "12040736",
            "content_html": "<p>🎶 “Stones In My Passway” - John Mellencamp</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://song.link/i/1439948226\">song.link/i/1439948…</a></p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://micro.blog/photos/1000x/https://SciPhi.micro.blog/uploads/2021/81746554d2.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" alt=\"\"></p>\n",
            "url": "https://SciPhi.micro.blog/2021/10/11/stones-in-my.html",
            "date_published": "2021-10-11T13:22:49+00:00",
            "author": {
                "name": "Phi.Sanders",
                "url": "",
                "avatar": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e59f6b41f418b9e6d37aad95db19ea7c?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fimages%2Fblank_avatar.png",
                "_microblog": {
                    "username": "SciPhi"
                }
            },
            "_microblog": {
                "date_relative": "2021-10-11  3:22 pm",
                "is_favorite": false,
                "is_bookmark": false,
                "is_deletable": false,
                "is_conversation": false
            }
        }

Let me know if you need additional information to reproduce these issues.

Cheers,
OC

2

Thanks for reporting this. We don’t currently check if that URL is valid… It’s usually what the user enters when registering. If they leave it blank and have a hosted blog, we should fill it in with their Micro.blog URL, but looks like that isn’t happening in some cases.

3

Got it :slight_smile: So in my API client I’ll make the URL optional and will validate it. Thanks @manton!