How to Write a Code to Push a Post and its Associated Comments to a Target Wordpress Site Using the Wordpress REST API?

this did not work.

Will try again

I’m sorry to hear that the solution didn’t work. Could you please provide more details about the issue you’re facing? What exactly didn’t work? Did you receive any error messages? The more details you can provide, the better I can assist you.

This is the code that doesn’t work.

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform";

export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    targetSiteUrl: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Target Site URL",
      description: "The URL of the Wordpress site you want to push posts to",
    },
    targetSiteUsername: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Target Site Username",
      description: "The username for the target Wordpress site",
    },
    targetSitePassword: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Target Site Password",
      description: "The password for the target Wordpress site",
    },
    post: {
      type: "object",
      label: "Post Data",
      description: "The data for the post you want to push to the target site",
    },
    comments: {
      type: "string[]",
      label: "Comments Data",
      description: "The data for the comments you want to push to the target site",
    },
  },
  async run({ steps, $ }) {
    const auth = Buffer.from(`${this.targetSiteUsername}:${this.targetSitePassword}`).toString('base64');
    
    // Push the post to the target site
    const postResponse = await axios($, {
      method: "POST",
      url: `${this.targetSiteUrl}/wp-json/wp/v2/posts`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Basic ${auth}`,
      },
      data: [this.post](http://this.post),
    });
    
    // Parse comments from JSON
    const commentsData = this.comments.map(comment => JSON.parse(comment));
    
    // Push the comments to the target site
    const commentsResponses = await Promise.all(
      commentsData.map((comment) =>
        axios($, {
          method: "POST",
          url: `${this.targetSiteUrl}/wp-json/wp/v2/comments`,
          headers: {
            Authorization: `Basic ${auth}`,
          },
          data: comment,
        })
      )
    );
    
    return {
      postResponse,
      commentsResponses,
    };
  },
});

It won’t connect to the WORDPRESS REST API via POST.

This code allows me to connect to the WORDPRESS REST API via POST.

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform";

export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    targetUrl: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Target URL",
      description: "The URL of your WordPress REST API endpoint",
    },
    username: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Username",
      description: "The username for your WordPress site",
    },
    password: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Password",
      description: "The password for your WordPress site",
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const auth = {
      username: this.username,
      password: this.password,
    };

    const response = await axios($, {
      method: "POST",
      url: this.targetUrl,
      auth: auth,
    });

    return {
      url: this.targetUrl,
      response: response
    };
  },
});

hmmmm, the code seems okay… not sure what’s not working exactly. :thinking_face:

maybe a screen share would help? I can record it and send it.

Oddly enough, the video cut off. I was done but that’s where I’m at.

You can define props as secret: true in order to hide their value in the UI!

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Using the raw content makes sense :+1:

So at the end of part 1, this code doesn’t really do anything. It just sends a POST with no content/body. :thinking_face:

Maybe it’s just for testing the username & password? :man-shrugging:

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I asked Pi to write me a code to test to see if the POST was working in WORDPRESS REST API and that’s what it came up with. Should I ask it something else?

well, it should probably test a specific endpoint, like those you have in part 2.

Also, if you want to use that JWT token to authenticate with the API, it would be better to use a Bearer token: Best HTTP Authorization header type for JWT - Stack Overflow

So it should be const auth = Bearer ${jwtToken};

Maybe that might get through the authentication part. :crossed_fingers:

Otherwise, this is pretty hard to debug from a distance. :grimacing:

Write me a code to test my Wordpress REST API connection.

I will need a targetSiteURL, targetSiteUsername, targetSitePassword.

We are using a bearer token.

Each of these should be a fied.

Sure, here’s a simple Pipedream component that sends a GET request to your WordPress REST API endpoint using a Bearer token for authentication. You’ll need to replace your-endpoint with the specific endpoint you want to test. import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"; export default defineComponent({ props: { targetSiteURL: { type: "string", label: "Target Site URL", description: "The URL of your WordPress REST API endpoint", }, targetSiteUsername: { type: "string", label: "Username", description: "The username for your WordPress site", }, targetSitePassword: { type: "string", label: "Password", description: "The password for your WordPress site", }, }, async run({ $ }) { const token = Buffer.from(`${this.targetSiteUsername}:${this.targetSitePassword}`, 'utf8').toString('base64'); const response = await axios($, { method: "GET", url: `${this.targetSiteURL}/your-endpoint`, headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`, }, }); return { url: this.targetSiteURL, response: response }; }, }); This code will send a GET request to your specified endpoint and return the response. If you’re testing a different type of request (like POST, PUT, etc.), or if you need to send a request body, you’ll need to modify the axios call accordingly.

Please adjust the script to use POST.

Sure, here’s the adjusted code that sends a POST request to your WordPress REST API endpoint using a Bearer token for authentication. You’ll need to replace your-endpoint with the specific endpoint you want to test. import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"; export default defineComponent({ props: { targetSiteURL: { type: "string", label: "Target Site URL", description: "The URL of your WordPress REST API endpoint", }, targetSiteUsername: { type: "string", label: "Username", description: "The username for your WordPress site", }, targetSitePassword: { type: "string", label: "Password", description: "The password for your WordPress site", }, }, async run({ $ }) { const token = Buffer.from(`${this.targetSiteUsername}:${this.targetSitePassword}`, 'utf8').toString('base64'); const response = await axios($, { method: "POST", url: `${this.targetSiteURL}/your-endpoint`, headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`, }, }); return { url: this.targetSiteURL, response: response }; }, }); This code will send a POST request to your specified endpoint and return the response. If you need to send a request body, you’ll need to add a data property to the axios call accordingly.

The Bearer token will only work with JWT, not username + password.