API Requests

[clbm87]

I am so glad that you guys have put some API access into Ergo and that is going to be awesome for expanding things and making things work well.

I would like to see if there is any possibility to add the following features into the API:

CS (ChanServ) Register function to allow creation of chat rooms through the API call (for example, if you are standardizing your channel names and have disabled manual registration or enforce ops only registration being able to do this programmatically through an API function would be great? This would negate the current node.js workaround I have to create the room and then run the transfer command to give it to the correct user.

Global/Broadcast function to allow a broadcast message to be triggered through the API instead of going through irc clients directly. This would save me some issues as well with a Node.JS Global_Bot style system that is rather clunky.

Edit 6-5-25:

Can we expose LIST and a WHO * dump over API as well? If we can do the list over api in json format that would be fantastic for web integrations and if we can do the who * (connected users dump) over api as well that could help with other web integrations?

Otherwise, I think the API improvements from 2.16 to the master are a great improvement.

[slingamn]

I approve of both of these. For registration, are you thinking that the endpoint should take the account name of the intended owner as an argument, and then fail if the owner is invalid?

For global/broadcast, what functionality are you currently using? The massmessage operator capability?

[clbm87]

@slingamn thanks for the prompt feedback!

Using CS its just REGISTER #CHAN it typically doesn't take an argument of who it takes the user submitting it... I would ideally for my purposes like for it to take the argument of user and channel name and return success, no account, or failed?

For global broadcast I am using the msg $$$*, I think thats massmessage? and for that I'd think just a text string but it might have to be limited to characters or if its being sent as a post it would need to be formatted a certain way?

curl -X POST http://example.com/api/post-message \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"message": "Hello world"}'