Upload Media with Wordpress.com API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Upload Media with the Wordpress.com API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Upload Media action
1. Connect your Wordpress.com account
2. Select a Site ID or Domain
3. Configure Media URL
4. Optional- Configure Title
5. Optional- Configure Caption
6. Optional- Configure Description
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Upload Media on Wordpress.com

Description:Uploads a media file from a URL to the specified WordPress.com site. [See the documentation](https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/1.1/post/sites/%24site/media/new/)

Version:0.0.1

Key:wordpress_com-upload-media

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Code#

import { prepareMediaUpload } from "../../common/utils.mjs";
import wordpress from "../../wordpress_com.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "wordpress_com-upload-media",
  name: "Upload Media",
  description: "Uploads a media file from a URL to the specified WordPress.com site. [See the documentation](https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/1.1/post/sites/%24site/media/new/)",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    wordpress,
    site: {
      propDefinition: [
        wordpress,
        "siteId",
      ],
    },
    media: {
      type: "any",
      label: "Media URL",
      description: "A direct media URL, or a FormData object with the file attached under the field name 'media[]'.",
    },
    title: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Title",
      description: "Title of the media",
      optional: true,
    },
    caption: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Caption",
      description: "Optional caption text to associate with the uploaded media",
      optional: true,
    },
    description: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Description",
      description: "A description of the uploaded media",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const warnings = [];

    const
      {
        wordpress,
        site,
        media,
        ...fields
      } = this;

    warnings.push(...wordpress.checkDomainOrId(site));

    let form;

    // If not form data
    if (wordpress.isFormData(media)) {
      form = media;

    } else {
      form = await prepareMediaUpload(media, fields, $);
    }

    let response;

    try {
      response = await wordpress.uploadWordpressMedia({
        $,
        contentType: form.getHeaders()["content-type"],
        site,
        data: form,
      });

      const media = response.media[0];

      $.export("$summary", `Media "${media.title}" uploaded successfully (ID: ${media.ID})` + "\n- " + warnings.join("\n- "));

      console.log(response);
      return response;

    } catch (error) {
      wordpress.throwCustomError("Failed to upload media", error, warnings);
    };
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Wordpress.com	`wordpress`	`app`	This component uses the Wordpress.com app.
Site ID or Domain	`site`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Media URL	`media`	`any`	A direct media URL, or a FormData object with the file attached under the field name 'media[]'.
Title	`title`	`string`	Title of the media
Caption	`caption`	`string`	Optional caption text to associate with the uploaded media
Description	`description`	`string`	A description of the uploaded media

Authentication#

Wordpress.com uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Wordpress.com account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Wordpress.com and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Wordpress.com API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

global