New Follower from Wordpress.com API

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Getting Started#

Trigger a workflow on New Follower with Wordpress.com API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the New Follower trigger
1. Connect your Wordpress.com account
2. Select a Site ID or Domain
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Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
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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.

New Follower on Wordpress.com

Description:Emit new event for each new follower that subscribes to the site.

Version:0.0.1

Key:wordpress_com-new-follower

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Code#

import wordpress from "../../wordpress_com.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "wordpress_com-new-follower",
  name: "New Follower",
  description: "Emit new event for each new follower that subscribes to the site.",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "source",
  dedupe: "unique",
  props: {
    wordpress,
    db: "$.service.db",
    site: {
      propDefinition: [
        wordpress,
        "siteId",
      ],
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const warnings = [];

    const {
      wordpress,
      db,
      site,
    } = this;

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

    let response;
    try {
      response = await wordpress.getWordpressFollowers({
        $,
        site,
      });

    } catch (error) {
      wordpress.throwCustomError("Failed to fetch followers from WordPress:", error, warnings);
    }

    const followers = response.subscribers || [];

    const lastFollowerId = Number(await db.get("lastFollowerId"));

    // First run: Initialize cursor
    if (!lastFollowerId) {
      if (!followers.length) {
        console.log("No followers found on first run. Source initialized with no cursor.");
        return;
      }

      const newest = followers[0]?.ID;
      if (!newest) {
        throw new Error("Failed to initialize: The latest follower does not have a valid ID.");
      }

      await db.set("lastFollowerId", newest);
      console.log(`Initialized lastFollowerId on first run with follower ID ${newest}.`);
      return;
    }

    let maxFollowerIdTracker = lastFollowerId;
    const newFollowers = [];

    for (const follower of followers) {
      if (Number(follower.ID) > lastFollowerId) {
        newFollowers.push(follower);
        if (Number(follower.ID) > maxFollowerIdTracker) {
          maxFollowerIdTracker = follower.ID;
        }
      }
    }

    for (const follower of newFollowers) {
      this.$emit(follower, {
        id: follower.ID,
        summary: follower.label || follower.login || "Anonymous Follower",
        ts: follower.date_subscribed && +new Date(follower.date_subscribed),
      });
    }

    // Update last seen follower ID
    if (newFollowers.length > 0) {
      await db.set("lastFollowerId", maxFollowerIdTracker);
      console.log(`Checked for new followers. Emitted ${newFollowers.length} follower(s).`);
    } else {
      console.log("No new followers found.");
    }

    if (warnings.length > 0) {
      console.log("Warnings:\n- " + warnings.join("\n- "));
    }
  },
};

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.
N/A	`db`	`$.service.db`	This component uses `$.service.db` to maintain state between executions.
Site ID or Domain	`site`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.

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