Most of this applies to any forum using a (sufficiently up-to-date) version of the Tapatalk plugin. Some things may be specific to XenForo 1 or TechnologyGuide's setup. Users and forum administrators may also want to export private data (PMs, restricted forums, edit history...) which is out of scope here.
- Error responses: 200 OK with body like:
result = /* repsonse body */ {
result: false,
result_text: "Need valid forum id!",
error: "Need valid forum id!"
}- WAF-side errors: 403 Forbidden with HTML content, marker
<title>Request Rejected</title> - Should we need authentication for anything,
xf_sessioncookie from HTML frontend is sufficient IIRC. - No limits on pagination on the app side, server probably times out on too big pages.
- A lot of scalar properties appear in multiple views for one object. Only crawl-relevant properties listed below.
GET /mobiquo/tapatalk.php?method_name=get_forum
forums = /* repsonse body */ [
{
forum_id: "1007",
url: "", // empty string, unless this is an external link
child: [] // subforums, same schema as root level forums array, recursive
}
]Then for each forum in forums and recursively forum.child (modes are separately paginated):
Get normal threads, stickies, announcements, respectively. Paginated separately, same schema.
GET /mobiquo/tapatalk.php?method_name=get_topic&forumId=<forum_id>&page=<page>&perPage=<per_page>
GET /mobiquo/tapatalk.php?method_name=get_topic&forumId=<forum_id>&page=<page>&perPage=<per_page>&mode=TOP // stickies
GET /mobiquo/tapatalk.php?method_name=get_topic&forumId=<forum_id>&page=<page>&perPage=<per_page>&mode=ANN // announcements
forum = /* repsonse body */ {
total_topic_num: 597,
topics: [
{
total_post_num: 1234,
topic_id: "256",
topic_author_id: "4828",
post_author_id: "4828", first_post_author_id: "4828", last_reply_author_id: "2883",
icon_url: "http://...", first_post_icon_url: "http://...", last_reply_icon_url: "http://..." // OP and last poster avatars
}
]
}Then for each topic in each page (1 to total_topic_num / per_page):
TODO: Check what exactly returnHtml transforms. Maybe returnHtml=1 yields higher fidelity?
GET /mobiquo/tapatalk.php?method_name=get_thread&topicId=<topic_id>&returnHtml=0&page=<page>&perPage=<per_page>
thread = /* repsonse body */ {
total_post_num: 1234,
...op_and_last_reply_properties,
posts: [
{
post_id: "9001",
post_author_id: "4828", icon_url: "http://...", // poster ID and avatar
editor_id: "4828", // only present if edited
inlineattachments: [ // attachments included in the post with an [IMG] tag
{
attachment_id: "5555",
filesize: 829385, // may want to extract these alongside links, to plan out attachment crawl
thumbnail_url: "http://...", url: "http://..." // only thumbnails are guest-viewable
}
],
attachments: [], // same object schema as inlineattachments
likes_info: [{ user_id: "8283" }],
thanks_info: [], // probably same as likes? I'm not sure this forum, or XF1 Tapatalk in general, uses this
post_content: "X<br /><b>[url=http://x]Y[/url]</b>" // mixed HTML and BBCode, maybe parse links and tags (quote, img at least) to find more resources?
}
]
}- Enumerate ALL users? (just from crawl state? enumerate uid 1 to last registered (according to stats box in HTML - disabled, at least for guests, on NBR)?)
- http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/mobiquo/tapatalk.php?method_name=get_user_info&userId=x or http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/mobiquo/tapatalk.php?method_name=get_user_info&username=x
- => { ... icon_url ... }
- Signatures appear entirely unavailable via API!
- Thumbnails openly available, originals require login
- Nothing to do with tapatalk API from that point
- Assets not covered here (emotes?)
- BBCode is not original post source, but adapted for app display
- Likely not fully reversible, analyze plugin source for details
- What about profile posts? (NBR has them, not sure about others, haven't checked whether API provides them yet)
- Media gallery is a third-party addon, not covered by API
- v2: examined
returnHtmlparameter