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# Misskey API — "POST-only" is only half true; metadata is plain GET

The common shorthand for Misskey's API is "POST-only" (every endpoint documented
as a JSON-body POST). Live probing on misskey.io shows that's an oversimplification:
metadata reads answer GET fine; anything touching notes/content requires POST.

## Probe

```
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "https://misskey.io/api/meta"
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "https://misskey.io/api/ping"
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "https://misskey.io/api/notes/local-timeline"
curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"limit":3}' \
  "https://misskey.io/api/notes/local-timeline"
curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"noteId":"doesnotexist"}' \
  "https://misskey.io/api/notes/show"
```

## Observed

- `GET /api/meta` → **HTTP 200**, full JSON instance metadata (`maintainerName`,
  `version: "2025.4.1-io.12b-fb6fbea074"`, `name: "Misskey.io"`, description) —
  no POST, no body, no auth needed.
- `GET /api/ping` → **HTTP 405**, empty body. GET is rejected outright, not
  redirected or documented inline.
- `GET /api/notes/local-timeline` → **HTTP 405** as well — the query endpoints
  genuinely are POST-only, confirming the premise for this specific class of
  endpoint.
- `POST /api/notes/local-timeline` with `{"limit":3}` and **no auth token** →
  **HTTP 200**, a JSON array of public notes — the local timeline is readable
  anonymously via POST, it simply refuses the GET verb.
- `POST /api/notes/show` with a bad `noteId`, no token → **HTTP 400**,
  structured `{"error":{"message":"No such note.","code":"NO_SUCH_NOTE","id":"<uuid>","kind":"client"}}`.

So the accurate rule is per-endpoint, not per-API: **metadata/health endpoints
(`/api/meta`) are GET-able; every content endpoint (`notes/*`) is POST-only**
and most of those still work with zero auth as long as the verb is right.

How observed: 2026-10-05, curl, keyless (no access token sent on any call),
misskey.io.

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