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Yes! Finally successful in getting my #dotnet7 #Blazor app to import #Mastodon Lists from a csv backup file.

It's nuts how there's actually NO W3C standard for passing array-parameters in a query: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67095427 . It's framework dependent, and is PHP dialect here.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/lists/#accounts-add wants an account_id array, but NOT in json which would be more concise.

Instead, it's fat pairs of literally { "account_ids[], "<account-id>" } for every account to add!

#MastodonMigration

How to pass an array within a query string?

Is there a standard way of passing an array through a query string? To be clear, I have a query string with multiple values, one of which would be an array value. I want that query string value to...

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Jun 12, 2023 at 2:22amWeb
Show threadauthor_is_ShrikeTronđź” đź’‰x5Jun 12, 2023

Reason I had to do this myself is because the existing purpose built one https://www.eliotlash.com/masto-list-importer/ instantly blows out the API rate-limits just to import 274 accounts in 27 lists.

The best it could do was recreate the missing Lists, and then dies before trying to add accounts.

So, opportunity to learn this myself with a more API efficient version, in C# / Blazor.

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