TryGhost / TryGhost/ActivityPub
Discovering actor ID
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- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 237
- Forks
- 35
- Avg merge
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Description
There is no way to discover the actor ID from author's profile (/author/<username>). Many Fediverse platforms redirect to an actor document if Accept header specifies the ActivityPub media type, but not Ghost.
One can try to guess the actor ID using the https://<domain>/.ghost/activitypub/users/<username> template, but this is not reliable. It seems to work only when the username is index, in other cases an invalid actor document is returned. The username is not checked, by the way, and document is returned even if the user doesn't exist. Here's an example: https://activitypub.ghost.org/.ghost/activitypub/users/wowsuchactor
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the author's profile route (/author/<username>) and its handling of ActivityPub Accept media types. Done means an existing username can expose a valid actor document through content negotiation, while nonexistent usernames are not served as valid actors; verify the behavior against the example URL and the ActivityPub media type.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100