I would like to write a Chrome extension which makes boosting toots on another instance more seamless.
I am looking at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/#boost
It says POST /api/v1/statuses/:id/reblog
About :id it says "The ID of the Status in the database."
How do I find this for a remote toot?
Use the search API to locate the status based on its URL, like this:
GET endpoint/api/v2/search?resolve=true&q=https://endpoint/status_url
If the URL is valid, you will have an item inside statuses object and you can pick its id from there. Path would be statuses[0].id, but ensure statuses length is greater than 0 to confirm the URL is valid.
Use that ID to make the request to the boost method.