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|    g00r00 to Andy Gorman    |
|    Re: "API" type access    |
|    23 Apr 21 10:56:27    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47       MSGID: 1:129/215 501c0b91       REPLY: 1:229/426.52 a70770c3       TZUTC: -0400        AG> I was wondering if there was ways I could access things like        AG> user/message/file info through some sort of an API (like by creating MPL        AG> scripts or something) so I can access the information from the website        AG> I'm creating. Or, if there is a copy of the structures, I could read        AG> the data files by accessing it through an externally written tool.               Yes you can do those things.              The structures are included in Mystic in the docs folder if you wanted to       create a CGI-BIN or FastCGI type application. The message base format is JAM       which is a standard and there are libraries that can read that data too.        Mystic used to have a web interface back in the late 90s but I lost the source       code. It used the CGI/FastCGI method.              I think some people have done some basic PHP and Python wrappers in the past       although I don't know where to find those.              MPL and Mystic Python run from within Mystic only for now. I was planning on       building out the web server scripting a bit but I haven't been working on much       lately outside of small fixes and features, so I don't know if/when that will       happen.              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/20 (Windows/64)        * Origin: Sector 7 | Mystic WHQ (1:129/215)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 457 616 123/10 131 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 129/215 305 154/10 30 40 50 700 203/0 220/50 80 90 221/0       SEEN-BY: 221/6 226/30 227/114 201 702 229/100 101 310 424 426 452       SEEN-BY: 229/550 664 700 981 1016 1017 240/5832 249/110 206 307 317       SEEN-BY: 249/400 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854 8125 301/1 317/3 322/757       SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 633/280 770/1 2452/250 3634/12       PATH: 129/215 154/10 280/464 229/101 426           |
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