How to get the initial API token

[kevinhur99]

Hello, I am not entirely sure how to get the initial API token. I tried going to https://api.ifunny.mobi/v4/account on Google Chrome, but when I enter my credentials, it prompts me to enter in the credentials again.

Please help me understand how to use this code. Thank you very much!

[EamonTracey]

@kevinhur99 Hey,
You can grab your API token by monitoring outgoing HTTP requests from your phone while you use iFunny. The tool I use for this is mitmweb. The token will be in the Authorization header field of any request sent to api.ifunny.mobi.

[gastrodon]

@EamonTracey You can also generate your own in the library, consider this snippet
https://github.com/gastrodon/iFunny.js/blob/deno/objects/client.ts#L354

Just make sure that when generating a new token, you make some network request with it and wait to log in, else you'll get a 403 Forbidden

[EamonTracey]

@gastrodon That code generates a basic API token, which is not linked to an iFunny account. You can use the basic token to fetch feeds and such, but not smile, comment, upload, etc.

ifunyapi used to have code to generate the basic token, but the algorithm iFunny uses seems to have changed, so I removed the code. Do you know that your algorithm currently works? If so, I'd like to include it in this package.

[gastrodon]

@EamonTracey I just ran unit tests on the deno branch of that repo ( which includes making net requests + logging on with a new basic token) and it appears to still work fine

To reproduce this, make sure that you have git and deno and run

$ export IFUNNYJS_EMAIL=<some email>
$ export IFUNNYJS_PASSWORD=<valid password>
$ git clone git@github.com:gastrodon/ifunny.js
$ cd ifunny.js
$ git checkout deno
$ deno test

The tests you'd be looking for are

test basic ... ok (10421ms)
test basic fresh ... ok (10105ms)
test login fresh token ... ok (103ms)

( some comment / content tests might fail - it's an unrelated WIP )

[gastrodon]

The code related to logging in is here

[gastrodon]

If this library is open to pulls, I can also just submit a PR related to this. I don't know how we'd want to go about storing basic tokens, though, since those are best re-used