Important data missing from the API

[floens]

I think that some important data is missing from the api as it currently exists.
Now apps need to hardcode the configurations into their code, and need to update each time a new board is created, or when a board changes config.
The boards.json file already exists, and I think it would be a good idea to put these settings in there.

The following board configurations are missing from the api:

• are image spoilers enabled (and how many spoiler images are there)
• are text spoilers enabled
• supported filetypes
• max file size
• max webm size
• thread cooldown time
• reply cooldown time
• image cooldown time
• comment character limit
• is preupload_captcha supported
• are ID's enabled

And optionally, knowing these would be nice (see also #17 and #18), but they are really specific:

• Country flags enabled, and if they're /troll/ flags or not
• [code] tag support
• [math] tag support
• The current announcement
• min/max image dimensions

About the image spoiler thing, it currently exists on threads OPs, but there is no way to know if image spoilering is supported when posting.
I know that the api is read-only, but this would help me out a lot.

I suggest the following in the boards.json:

{
    "boards": [
        {
            "board": "hr",
            "title": "High Resolution",
            "ws_board": 0,
            "per_page": 15,
            "pages": 10,

            "cooldowns": {
                "thread": 600,
                "reply": 30,
                "image": 60,
            },

            "file_types": ["gif", "webm", "png", "jpg", "pdf", ...],
            "max_file_size": 8388608,
            "max_webm_size": 3145728,
            "max_comment_length": 2000,

            "preupload_captcha_enabled": 1,
            "uid_enabled": 0,
            "image_spoiler_enabled": 4,
            "text_spoiler_enabled": 0
        },
        ...
    ]
}

Optionally, I suggest encoding the file_types like this, if the max sizes differ per type. (It already differs for webms):

"files": {
    "pdf": {
        "max_size": 4194304
    },
    "webm": {
        "max_size": 3145728
    },
    "png": {
        "max_size": 3145728
    },
    ...
}

[desuwa]

We added some more data to boards.json

[floens]

Thank you, this makes me very happy!

One question for clarification: the spoiler tag is optional, but /r9k/ and /u/ have spoilers: 0. What does this mean?

[desuwa]

but /r9k/ and /u/ have spoilers: 0

That would be a bug.

"spoilers": 1 = spoilers enabled (text and images)
"custom_spoilers": 5 = board has 5 custom spoiler images

[floens]

Ok got it.
Closing the issue because everything's implemented.