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![](https://lemmy.hogru.ch/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprogramming.dev%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F8140dda6-9512-4297-ac17-d303638c90a6.png)
curl 'https://lemmy.world/api/v3/user?username=egeres&sort=New&page=1&limit=20' | jq .posts
https://join-lemmy.org/api/classes/LemmyHttp.html#getPersonDetails
The documentation is really terrible and the developers try to defend it anyways.
Some instances also employ cloudflare or other anti-ddos techniques that make automated API usage impossible.
This is still written from a javascript perspective and assumes many things that are not true when using other approaches to calling the endpoints.