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Is there any tool you can use to send custom Activities? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/activitypub@programming.dev

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For example, If I wanted to see how lemmy handles an announcement of an announcement, is there a tool I could use to write a custom activity and send it to the target server?

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[–] rglullis 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You will need a server that can serve you actor URL and public key. Even a static webpage will do. If you have that, then a simple curl could be sufficient.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had tried stuff similar to this (hosting static json on my neocities site), but it failed. It probably was because of the keys. I'll try it again with them.

[–] rglullis 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Another thing to consider is that most servers only accept HTTP requests that are properly signed.

Maybe you can take a look at Fedify if you know your way around javascript development? If python is your thing, maybe my own Django ActivityPub code?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I made a shell script which makes a request (with curl) with the version of http signing mastodon uses. It works. I think.

Anyway, I was planning on making an ActivityPub library in lua, for the lapis framework.