Please guide for the next step in XF2.

[rakeshmali]

Trying to setup following for xf2.x - https://github.com/xfrocks/bdApi/tree/master/php_demo

Authentication successfully done. Getting following message "Obtained access token successfully!" and URLs with tokens.

Now don't know what to do next?
How can I post a thread into a specific forum?

I want to create a post into my XF forum using the api.

I have tried like following but no success - https://domain.com/xf-php-api/index.php?action=request&url=https://forum.domain.com/community/api/index.php?users/me/timeline&oauth_token=TOKEN_CODE&access_token=TOKEN&forum_id=18&thread_title=Thread_Title&post_body=Description

You help will be much appreciated.

[daohoangson]

Once you have got your token, it's quite straight forward:

1. Find the api action you want to do in the doc https://github.com/xfrocks/bdApi/blob/master/docs/api.markdown
2. Make request with a valid token and required parameters

If you want to create a new thread in a forum, use this https://github.com/xfrocks/bdApi/blob/master/docs/api.markdown#post-threads. The 3 required parameters are forum_id, thread_title and post_body. Something like this should work:

curl http://forum.domain.com/community/api/index.php?threads -d 'oauth_token=xxx&forum_id=2&thread_title=Thread+from+api&post_body=Hello+World!'

[daohoangson]

By the way, the XenForo 2 version doesn't support creating new thread yet but eventually it will. Both versions (XF1 and XF2) uses the same URL and parameters structure.

[rakeshmali]

When I am hitting following command using terminal with proper oauth_token -

curl http://forum.domain.com/community/api/index.php?threads -d 'oauth_token=xxx&forum_id=2&thread_title=Thread+from+api&post_body=Hello+World!'

it is showing me following error -

{"status":"error","errors":["The requested page could not be found."],"system_info":{"time":1531974610,"visitor_id":1}}

1. Is the above error due to "not supporting create new thread" feature by XF2(as you told in your last comment) or the error is something else?

2. I know you are not the right person to ask this question but still if you have in your knowledge, could you please know me when XF2 can provide such option of create new thread using any api?

3. Do you know any other way I can create thread in xf2 with API?

[daohoangson]

1. That is correct. If you are using the XF2 version of this add-on then POST /threads is not yet implemented. In the meantime, you can test with XF1, the api actions are the same.
2. XenForo itself does not expose an api, everything mentioned here is implemented in the add-on. We plan to implement POST /threads in the next week.
3. There is none that we know about.

[rakeshmali]

1, 3 Thanks for the confirmation.

2 - Oh really.. That's great to know. Please add the email rakeshmali.dev@gmail.com into you newsletter or subscriber list so I can get notified about this update. Actually I really required this API option for my forum.

[daohoangson]

I know it's a bit noisy but you can subscribe to this PR #40 to keep track of the api actions for XF2 implementations. I'll close this issue for now.

Cheers.

[rakeshmali]

@daohoangson Having one more query, so opening it again.

I am able to create thread in xf2 using API. Thank you!

Having one more query - Is if possible to create an oauth token which never expire?

Right now, I am doing like this -

1. Generated a api key and secrete key.
2. setup a oauth_token using above keys
3. Now, I have created a php (do.php) page where I collect oauth_token, forum_id, thread_title, post_body, thread_tags like -
   http://domain.com/do.php?oauth_token=xxx&forum_id=2&thread_title=Thread+title&post_body=Hello+World&thread_tags=test
   (Actually I will hit the above url with parameters from some other domain).
4. And then in (do.php), I send the above data with curl request to the xenforo forum website, where I have authenticated.

But the oauth_token expire in few time. and everytime I need to create it again.

1. So is it possible to create a never expiration validity token?
2. If possible, Please correct me if my followed approach not the right way to do this action.

[daohoangson]

For never expire token, you can edit the db I think. It's not official supported.

[rakeshmali]

Sorry, But I didn't get it. Which database you are talking about? Do I need to change in any db file?

[daohoangson]

Sorry for not being clear.

You can change XenForo database, table xf_bdapi_token. Edit expire_date to some far away date.

[rakeshmali]

Great!
Thank you so much for the quick response.

I will change it.

[rakeshmali]

Hi @daohoangson ,
Opening the thread again.
I am still at the same api version as we discussed before.
I am tring to access the api. While I click on the link in "Authorization (step 1)", it redict me to the domiain which I have configured. And as I login, getting the following error on the page "bdapi_oauth2_error_invalid_client".

Could you please guide me to resolve the error.

I will then upgrade to the latest version of the [bd] api

[daohoangson]

It stopped working suddenly?