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Connect external web app to wordpress

We have a web app that will allow users to edit their videos, add intro/outro/watermark. Once the user already done on their video. We need to provide an option to post/syndicate their video as a ...
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Is it possible to process $_POST / inbound http request in way to automatically create Wordpress post?

I like to learn some of WP automation. The WP get inbound http request to site url and the question is how to create a publication based on post (or get) data structure? How can maintain ...
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Hook into WordPress update?

I'd like to know if there's any way to hook into WordPress update process and send $_POST variable to update server? I'm delivering plugin/theme updates from private server and I hook into this: ...
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How to use the HTTP API with a Proxy?

If I want to route a HTTP request through a local (alias: on the current server) Proxy, how would I go around this? The allowed Proxy settings for the wp-config.php are the following: # HTTP Proxies ...
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Filter any HTTP request URI?

I want to filter any HTTP request URI done through the HTTP API. Use cases: The WordPress update check goes to http://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.6/, but ...
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How to use WordPress HTTP API to download file from remote location

So this PHP code works for me: $ch = curl_init( TCS_CPDF_REMOTE_ZIP ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true ); $data = curl_exec( $ch ); curl_close( $ch ); ...
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API JSON Data in WordPress

On the Google developer API page, it talks briefly on retrieving a dynamic list of fonts using JSON/JavaScript. I was wondering how would I be able to pull the web fonts API into my Wordpress theme ...
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WP_Http_Cookie destroys cookie value through urldecode()

Background: Working on a Widget that uses a remote API using wp_remote_post to log into the service, once logged in storing the cookies received for the second request to query data with ...
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Create plugin/function to catch XML-data via Shortcode

I need to display data from an XML-file inside Wordpress posts, and I want to use shortcodes to do it. I have this XML-file witch I need to get the data from; ...
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Inconsistent server code response using HTTP API

I'm using Wordpress http api to get a server response code from youtube api so I check the validity of a video. I do this in a function from my functions.php which processes my post form where I ...
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parse XML from URL (via SOAP)

I am attempting to build out a dashboard widget that will perform a validation check on a site RSS feed using the W3 Validator. Their API docs (http://feed2.w3.org/docs/soap.html) provide the method. ...
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POST to a REST API from a wordpress form

I dont want to use a REST API to publish to wordpress. I want to create a form on a wordpress page which will send a POST to an external REST API. Users will put in their information, and perhaps ...
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Behind-the-scenes HTTP Request?

I'm trying to add a line to my functions.php that does a behind-the-scenes HTTP request submitting some user information to a mailing list URL I have. I'm trying to test the code at the moment, but ...
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using wp_remote_get to retrieve own url on local host

I have a website in local development at test:8888 and I am trying to get the following to work in my functions.php file. $response = wp_remote_get( 'test:8888/?p=1' ); print_r($response); ...
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What is the official way to consume the Wordpress API? (api.wordpress.org)

Was wondering if anyone knows here if the API at api.wordpress.org is free to use without keys. I haven't really found any information about key registration. I'd like to use it to make a few ...
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wp_remote_post with ssl:// protocol

$response = wp_remote_post( 'ssl://securesite.com', array( 'method' => 'POST', 'body' => $string, // variable is set 'timeout' => apply_filters( ...
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How to control accept encoding on HTTP API requests?

Related to this ticket about issues with inflating data. So far it had been suggested by API's support to request gzip instead of deflate. However I cannot find a way to override WP settings that ...
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Posting an XML request using HTTP API

I'm trying to work with an API that expects an XML string in the body of the post. Additionally, the docs for the API specify: Please post with mime-type text/xml with the XML in the body of the ...
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Storing an XML Response (Transient)?

Haven't worked much with XML so I'm hitting a bit of a wall: function getapi() { $api_response = wp_remote_get( "http://example.com/getXML" ); $data = wp_remote_retrieve_body( ...
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Does WordPress's HTTP API use any caching?

I'm working on a plugin to will retrieve data from a remote server and display it on the Dashboard. To do this, I'll be using the WordPress HTTP API but I'm not seeing any information on the HTTP API ...
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How deactivate the http-api

give it an tipp or solution for deactivate the method request() in class WP_Http_Streams? I use WordPress also on offline-servers and have wp_debug true for development and tests. But i have many ...