BlairPo
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Extracting the user and message metadata via JavaScript
Hello, I wanted to confirm the best approach for extracting message and user metadata from a forum page. This would be done via JavaScript. The purpose of this is for capturing analytics data. The metadata required is as follows: 1. User rank 2. Message ID 3. Message lifespan I am not sure if I should place a component that makes REST API calls to obtain the values listed above or if it is possible to extract the metadata from the page contents. For example, http://lidemo.lithium.com/t5/Speakers/Amazing-sound-from-my-Xs3/td-p/2713 By checking the Page Source, I see the user rank and message ID in the following markup: <div class="lia-user-rank">Trusted Contributor</div> <input value="2713" id="form_instance_key" name="form_instance_key" type="hidden"></input> <input class="lia-form-message-uid-key-input" value="2713" id="lia-message_uid_key" name="message_uid_key" type="hidden"></input> Are these reliable areas to use for extracting the data? Or are these not always consistent. For message lifespan (e.g. "Two weeks ago"), this appears as plain text. Is there a way to retrieve the message lifespan as a precise data. It looks like the REST API would work: http://lidemo.lithium.com/restapi/vc/messages/id/2713/post_time So I would need to add a component which adds this REST API call to the page. Does this sound like the right approach?213Views0likes1CommentRe: Get message body for collection of new messages?
I believe that all you have to do is add the following suffix to the REST API call: restapi.format_detail=full_list_element So in your example it would be: http://community.lithium.com/community-name/restapi/vc/boards/id/video_cards/messages/linear?page_size=100&page=1&restapi.format_detail=full_list_element113Views0likes0CommentsRe: Filtering messages by post time
This does not appear to be work. I tried adding the date_start=2009-07-01&date_end=2009-07-08 to the URL using appropriate date values for the data but an empty result was returned. From what I can learn, there does not appear to be a solution for filtering out by post_date using the REST API alone.229Views0likes1CommentFiltering messages by post time
Hello, How do I filter messages by post_time? I can retrieve a set of messages from the speakers board: http://community.demo.lithium.com/community/restapi/vc/boards/id/speakers/search/messages?q=%20help+speaker+placement But I want to be able to filter out these messages by specifying a range for post_time. The only possible solution I can think of is to use the sort_by URL in the API call but then I would have to then narrow down the page size. Is that correct?260Views0likes4Comments