Friendica offers multiple API endpoints to interface with third-party applications:
API endpoints can restrict the HTTP method used to request them. Using an invalid method results in HTTP error 405 “Method Not Allowed”.
Friendica supports basic HTTP Auth and OAuth 1 to authenticate the user to the APIs.
OAuth settings can be added by the user in web UI under [/settings/oauth/](/settings/oauth/).
When an error occurs in API call, an HTTP error code is returned, with an error message Usually:
Error body is
{ "error": "Specific error message", "request": "API path requested", "code": "HTTP error code" }
<status> <error>Specific error message</error> <request>API path requested</request> <co.de>HTTP error code</co.de> </status>
/usr/bin/curl -u USER:PASS https://YOUR.FRIENDICA.TLD/api/statuses/update.xml -d source="some source id" -d status="the status you want to post"
The [RSStoFriendika](https://github.com/pafcu/RSStoFriendika) code can be used as an example of how to use the API with python. The lines for posting are located at [line 21](https://github.com/pafcu/RSStoFriendika/blob/master/RSStoFriendika.py#L21) and following.
def tweet(server, message, group_allow=None): url = server + '/api/statuses/update' urllib2.urlopen(url, urllib.urlencode({'status': message,'group_allow[]':group_allow}, doseq=True))