Query posts with API v2 endpoint

1

I’m trying to retrieve posts from our creator account using the following endpoint:

https://www.patreon.com/api/oauth2/v2/posts/<post_id>

This works fine and I get the following payload:

{
   "data" : {
      "attributes" : {},
      "id" : "<post_id>",
      "type" : "post"
   },
   "links" : {
      "self" : "https://www.patreon.com/api/oauth2/v2/posts/<post_id>"
   }
}

The problem is when I try to get other fields from this endpoint. Since the documentation is lacking, I’m basing my requests on the code I see in the WordPress plug-in. In patreon_api_v2.php, the get_post function shows that the fields are specified as:

fields[post]=title,content,is_paid,is_public,published_at,url,embed_data,embed_url,app_id,app_status

I’m URL encoding these parameters before adding them to the query string, but I’m still getting the bare payload without any title or content.

Am I doing something wrong here or is this API not working correctly?

-ch

2

Can you post your exact call? You could also get all those as an include while querying posts endpoint to get the list of posts/

3

Here is the command I’m using with curl:

curl --request GET --url https://www.patreon.com/api/oauth2/v2/posts/<post_id>?fields%5Bpost%5D%3Dtitle%2Ccontent%2Cis_paid%2Cis_public%2Cpublished_at%2Curl%2Cembed_data%2Cembed_url%2Capp_id%2Capp_status   --header 'authorization: Bearer REDACTED'

The requested post was created by the user account used to create the Bearer token.

I also tried your suggestion of using an include parameter, but get an error when I try to use things like “post”, “campaign.posts”, “title”, etc.:

curl --request GET --url https://www.patreon.com/api/oauth2/v2/campaigns/<campaign_id>/posts?include=post  --header 'authorization: Bearer REDACTED'

{
   "errors" : [
      {
         "code" : 1,
         "code_name" : "ParameterInvalidOnType",
         "detail" : "Invalid parameter for 'include' on type post: ['post'].",
         "id" : "eb075c1c-7386-54ba-b2f7-b053e8786c5a",
         "status" : "400",
         "title" : "Invalid value for parameter 'include'."
      }
   ]
}

Still stumped.

-ch

4

I’m an idiot. I was URL encoding the “=” in the query string.

For anyone that stumbles across this thread, use a curl command like this:

curl --request GET --url 'https://www.patreon.com/api/oauth2/v2/posts/<post_id>?fields%5Bpost%5D=title%2Ccontent%2Cis_paid%2Cis_public%2Cpublished_at%2Curl%2Cembed_data%2Cembed_url%2Capp_id%2Capp_status' --header 'authorization: Bearer REDACTED'

-ch

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5

While I have your attention @codebard - is there a way to get the uploads and tags associated with the post?

-ch

6

Currently the api does not support attachments and tags, so no. It may be a good addition though.

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