# Ecency

> Ecency is a web client for the Hive blockchain — a decentralized social network. Every public post and comment is also available in clean, token-efficient Markdown and JSON through stable read-only endpoints, so agents do not need to render or scrape the JavaScript app.

Append a format extension to a post's canonical URL (`https://ecency.com/@author/permlink`).

## Read a post

- [Markdown](https://ecency.com/@username/permlink.md): the post as a Markdown document — YAML front matter (title, author, tags, dates, canonical URL) followed by the raw on-chain body. Append `.md`.
- [JSON](https://ecency.com/@username/permlink.json): the post as structured JSON in a small envelope (`type`, `canonical_url`, `source`, `content`). Append `.json`.
- [Discussion JSON](https://ecency.com/@username/permlink.discussion.json): the full comment thread as JSON. Append `.discussion.json`.

## Notes

- Read-only. These endpoints never expose authenticated actions (voting, commenting, transfers).
- Content suppressed for policy reasons (spam, NSFW, very low quality) returns 404 — the same posts are withheld from search engines.
- The underlying data is public on the Hive blockchain; these endpoints are a convenience layer over it.

## More

- [Sitemap](https://ecency.com/sitemap.xml)
- [About Ecency](https://ecency.com/about)
- [Hive blockchain](https://hive.io)