No check if url is in list when adding via API?

[Jomiph]

I hope I'm not doing things wrong, but I noticed, if you try to add a url via the web interface, it will tell you if it already exists in the watch list. But, when adding via the api, there seems to not be such a check, and it adds with a new uuid. Am I missing something, or is there a way to have it check if the url exists? I guess I can work around it by pulling the watch list and comparing against it, but wanted to see if there was a built-in way of doing this.

[dgtlmoon]

Good question - I think the answer is that we should add something like uniq=true to the request

curl http://localhost:4000/api/v1/watch?uniq=true -H"x-api-key:xxxx" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://my-nice.com" , "tag": "nice list"}'

See #1571

@Jomiph which API call are you using exactly?

[Jomiph]

I am using the same you used in the example above (api/v1/watch post). Very new to this, so attaching the current code to be sure I'm not mishandling things.

`api_url = "http://localhost:5000/api/v1/watch"
headers = {"content-type":"application/json","x-api-key":"XXXXXXXX"}

for link in soup.find_all("a", "blogList__post", limit=5):
print(urljoin(url, link.get('href')))
data = {"url": urljoin(url, link.get('href')), "tag": "test"}
response = requests.post(api_url, data=json.dumps(data), headers = headers)
print(response.json())
`

Edit: Stripped out the grabbing part from the watched website