Search for the "Lemmy link" URL. Works on the web interface, no reason why it won't work through the API too: (it's the same theory as doing community lookups)
I was trying this manually from Connect, but it looks like searching for a URL doesn't work through the search interface there, so I can't test it. Should work though, as those searches are OK through the web interface.
I set up an account on neodb.social recently. Other than the fact if you search for anything it's all in Chinese, you can search for URLs and get the English versions.
Not sure about DOS, but Windows 10 will happily run 16-bit Windows software. You have to use the 32-bit version of Windows though - the 64-bit version dropped support.
I did know this already, but it's easily forgotten as it isn't common to need it. I find banking sites are the main place this is useful, as they ask for all sorts of extra information.
Personal: Booted up a friend's infected disk on my Amiga, which then infected the HD. Mass panic for ten minutes or so as I ran Virus Checker or VirusZ on it.
Work: In 2003-ish we had an infection of... I can't even remember the name of it, but we had to manually go round and run a program on everybody's computer to get rid of it.
Since then I've seen a few people get their files encrypted by Ransomware, but no major infections.
In which case I suggest you file a GDPR violation against all web browsers, as by default they will be allowing tracking and sending data to advertisers.
JSON. Very easy to deal with in Python.