[Deviantart] Get a list of everyone you're watching via deviantart.com/watching

[Scripter17]

The current solution (from #515) is really slow and requires your profile to have an /about#watching to query

Annoyingly there isn't an API endpoint for this (there's one for watchers, but not watchees)

The internal endpoint for the /watching page is https://www.deviantart.com/global/difi/?c%5B%5D=%22Friends%22%2C%22getFriendsList%22%2C%5Bfalse%2C%22<PAGE NUM>%22%5D&iid=[redacted]&mp=3&t=json

I'm not sure about your policy on internal endpoints or whether or not this'd get gallery-dl banned by deviantart, but I say it's worth exploring

I may or may not make a pull request for this if I can get it to work

[Scripter17]

Just remembered I opened this issue

Danopia wrote some pretty comprehensive documentation on how DiFi works

https://github.com/danopia/deviantart-difi/wiki/Friends#getfriendslist

I'll see what I can do with this

[mikf]

Annoyingly there isn't an API endpoint for this (there's one for watchers, but not watchees)

Due to recent DA API changes (#5916), I've looked over the available endpoints again and found /user/friends/{username}, which seems to return the same results as the method from b347bf6 albeit in lexicographical order. It uses the OAuth API, so it is quite a bit faster than the old method and it works even for profiles without /about#watching.

As for the input URL, you currently still need to specify a username (changing this would be rather tedious, so I'd like to avoid it if possible), but it now also accepts just /watching as path.

# both do the same
https://www.deviantart.com/USER/watching
https://www.deviantart.com/USER/about#watching

[Scripter17]

Confirmed working

Thank you very much!