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Safari Extension (self.memmy)

submitted 2 years ago by veganslvt to c/[email protected]

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I know this is more of a QoL type of feature, but down the road it would be nice to possibly have a safari extension for Lemmy links. It’s annoying to click on a link, and for it to go to the website instead of memmy. I don’t know if it’s possible, because I think Apollo hijacked the reddit open in app link. BUTTTT 🤞🏻 🤞🏻🤞🏻hopefully it’s possible

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[–] gkd 3 points 2 years ago (10 children)

This is something I'd love to do, but I need to figure out the best way to do it. I've never done one before, but I'm sure I could figure that part out.

My question is how do I actually know if something is a Lemmy link? Do I just see if the URL matches /c/.... or /u/....? This doesn't seem great because I'm sure other sites are using the same thing.

I could also do a bit deeper of a check, see if it's /u/something or even /u/something@something, but this would still be sketchy at best in my opinion.

If anyone has any ideas, I'll happily hear them out. It's something I want to do as well.

[–] RustedSwitch 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I was reading about a browser script that essentially does this; maybe you could get some ideas here

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher

[–] gkd 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup, looks like pretty much exactly what I was considering.

As a matter of fact, the idea of just having a preset list of instances looks really good too. What I might do is this:

Maintain a list of instances at https://memmy.app/allInstances.json
You press a link that contains /post/, Memmy communicates with Memmy.app to retrieve that list
Try to retrieve the post from the instance it is on (looks like the script uses the same idea that I figured would be correct, which is to just use the /post endpoint)
Send a search request to your instance with that post title and username as that user
Redirect you to that post

We will see how it works out.

[–] RustedSwitch 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would that json be something the community could contribute to?

[–] gkd 2 points 2 years ago

The instance list? There are a few publicly available scripts to do this (actually you can visit https://memmy.app/instances.json to see how I'm retrieving the instance info for onboarding. I'm only retrieving a few of them right now while we wait on Apple to review the initial app).

Could just do the same thing for all instances and only retrieve the name and URL for them.

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