message_object.md

Message Object

A message object looks like this:

{
    "id": /* Message ID */
    "datetime_created": /* The date of the notification */
    "actor_username": /* The username of whoever acted (e.g. who loved your project) */
    "actor_id": /* The ID of whoever acted */
    "type": /* A message type */
    /* ..And then type-specific properties; see below. */
}

Event Types

• followuser: Somebody followed the user

• loveproject: Somebody loved one of the user's projects

  {
      "project_id": /* The ID of the project which was loved */
      "title": /* The name of the project which was loved */
  }
  

• favoriteproject: Somebody favorited one of the user's projects

  {
      "project_id": /* The ID of the project which was favorited */
      "title": /* The name of the project which was favorited */
  }
  

• remixproject: Somebody remixed one of the user's projects

  {
      "project_id": /* The ID of the remix */
      "title": /* The name of the remix */
      "parent_id": /* The ID of the project which was remixed */
      "parent_title": /* The name of the project which was remixed */
  }
  

• addcomment: Somebody made a comment

  {
      "comment_type": /* A number referring to the type of place where the comment was posted (either 0, 1, or 2) */
      "comment_obj_id": /* The ID of the place where the comment was posted */
      "comment_obj_title": /* The name of where the comment was posted */
      "comment_id": /* The ID of the comment */
      "comment_fragment": /* The text content of the comment */
      "commentee": /* The username of the person which the user replied to (or undefined, if nobody) */
  }
  

  The comment_type can have one of three values:

  • 0: the comment was made on a project
  • 1: the comment was made on a profile page
  • 2: the comment was made in a studio's comment section

  comment_obj_id is just the ID that shows up in a URL; for example, if comment_type is 0, then the full URL for the comment is https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/<comment_obj_id>/#comments-<comment_id>.

• curatorinvite: Somebody invited the user to a studio

• becomeownerstudio: Somebody promoted the user to a manager in a studio

• studioactivity: There was activity in a studio that the user is following

  All studio message types (curatorinvite, becomeownerstudio, and studioactivity) have this data:

  {
      "gallery_id": /* The ID of the studio */
      "title": /* The name of the studio */
  }
  

• forumpost: Somebody made a new post in a forum thread that the user is following

  {
      "topic_id": /* The ID of the topic */
      "topic_title": /* The name of the topic */
  }
  

• userjoin - The user joined Scratch (and was given this welcome notification)