Questions tagged [http-api]
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Send and receive emails with wp_mail() for WP User (like Mailserver)
I have developed an app, which is connected to my WordPress Backend. I would like to provide my User (WP User) an email function to send and receive mails without using a dedicated email account (...
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wp_http remote request not respecting timeout
I am trying to test for timeout scenarios for my API requests using WP_Http::request() by passing a very short timeout argument (a minimal fraction of a second). After my API requests continued to ...
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WordPress getting data from external API
I am trying to create a Plugin that does the following jobs:
Authenticate the user to get Bearer token 'access_token'
Get data from API and store in Database
I have checked all the APIs and ...
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Why is this specific API request failing when sending via wp_remote_post?
I'm pulling my hair out trying to make a POST request to an API endpoint using wp_remote_post.
The API needs a request with content-type multipart/mixed but WordPress doesn't seem to play nicely with ...
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Need help creating asynchronous data scraper in WordPress
I need some help on a data scraping script I've been working on. I want to create a script through which content can be extracted from a page.
I fetched the page via wp_remote_get() and ...
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How to use the HTTP API (wp_remote_get) instead of cURL?
I'm running into a problemen while trying to change my cURL request into a request using the HTTP API.
Below code is my (old) cURL request. Here I'm getting some contents from an external URL. This is ...
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External HTTP API calls slowing down Wordpress admin [closed]
By using Query Monitor I'm finding that virtually every page load within Wordpress admin results in 15-25 server-side HTTP API calls being made. Most take less than 0.1s, but there's 5 or more that ...
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WP Remote Request not returning all of content via request
EDIT: I think I discovered the issue, the endpoint is truncating the content response, does anyone know how to send over all of the data without it being truncated?
So I stumbled across some ...
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Properly loop through and paginate page on each function call
Alright, I need some help and I don't know if I'm doing it the correct way, but I wanted to see if the community can guide me in a better direction.
Here is what's going on:
I have a ...
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How to convert this cURL to wp_remote_get?
I want to convert curl to wp_remote_get.
$url = 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token';
$curl_post = 'client_id=' . $client_id . '&redirect_uri=' . $redirect_uri . '&...
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Call external API in wordpress based on user input
I want to create a simple wordpress website in which I want to display a search box on a page. On searching a string in text/search box, an external API call should be made based on that string and ...
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wp_remote_post empty $_POST
Ok, I've searched a lot but cannot understand what I'm missing.
I need to post some data to a php file on another server,
but if I print the wp_remote_post variable I get:
{"headers":{},&...
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Cache WP remote_get HTTP Response using Transients
Using wp_remote_get keeps pinging the API on every page load. Which increase the server resource.
Is it possible to cache the response of the API store it using Transients and use it for next 5 ...
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Remove unwanted fields from WP API response
I am making a mobile app that links to a Wordpress site. There are a lot of unwanted data from the API response and it would be great if I could remove it.
How could I do that without touching the ...
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Sending JSON Payload using Request::request_multiple()
I have an external api which takes json body as payload. I am trying to send multiple parallel requests. So I am not using wp_remote_post()
The wp_remote_post() version of my code works perfectly.
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How to receive JSON payload from a digital device
I have a site with about 100 registered users. Some of the people will be receiving digital scales. The scales send their weight data to a 3rd party server that then sends a JSON Payload as an HTTP ...
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Return WP_Error as WP_REST_Response
I have a http request to WP REST API that can resolve in a success or a failure status
The success gets handled by WP_REST_Response, and if any error occurs this is handled by WP_Error, both returned ...
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WP_Http response throws "Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array"
My plugin is throwing the error "Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array". The line in question is...
$http = new WP_Http();
$response = $http->request( $url, array('timeout' => 20));
if( ...
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wp_remote_request header error even though working properly with cURL
I'm trying to make calls to a JSON API inside my wordpress theme.
I tried with the cURL option, making a custom function and things works as it should but I wanted to use the built-in wordpress ...
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Send a get request to wordpress
I want to have a url like this:
http://example.com?user_id=23&entry_id=34$nonce=4j54hgc465
When a user clicks on this link, I want to do something with this information like update the user or ...
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Allow download_url for lan addresses
I'm hosting a wp site on my own server (at home) and I would like to use wp cli to import media from my own computer.
On my computer, I have a web server and I asks to wp-cli to import media from "...
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Why does WP HTTP API switch the method (POST/PURGE) to GET when redirecting (302)?
I discovered after much painful debugging that requests to the the WP HTTP API (in this case, though wp_remote_request()) always ended up as GET method after being redirected, even if the method was ...
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Difference between wp_remote_post and wp_safe_remote_post
The documentation for wp_remote_post says
In many cases you may be better served with wp_safe_remote_post
Looking at the source code, the only line that's different between the two is that ...
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wp remote post getting a 404 error code
$info = array(
'values' => array(
'email' => '[email protected]',
'firstname' => "firstname",
'lastname' => "lastname",
'source' => "WEB",
),
);
$infoo=json_encode($...
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How to make a implement queue for scheduling tasks in WordPress?
Is it possible to implement some queuing mechanism for task scheduling? In my plugin, I want to run a task triggered by cron for 5 seconds and if not complete, save the state and call another Async ...
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How to run multiple Async HTTP requests in Wordpress?
In my plugin, I want to call 10 or more HTTP requests asynchronously in WordPress so that I need not wait for the response of anyone. Is there any way in Wordpress that supports this and also ...
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Using WP_Http to post data to Webservice without blocking caller script
I've been using WP_Http to post data to a (third-party) webservice.
Their webservice is slow like hell so I can't wait for their webservice's answer.
I have tried using the parameter blocking = ...
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Save external API calls in WordPress
I coded a WordPress page on which users can submit their name. After pressing submit, it will send an API request to an external API, which returns information about their name. This is a simple ...
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XML-code sent via the POST method to the URL (API) [closed]
I am building a webshop for a client who makes use of drop shipping service. The customer can place the order on the website and the order will be send to the dropshipper automatically. This is done ...
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How to set charset for wp_remote_post request?
I'm using wp_remote_post() on a project and it works great. But seems like the server on which I need to make the POST request is a Windows (ISS) server. So the third-party service that provides this ...
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Creating custom URLs with template to fetch external JSON
Hi guys hope you can help.
So I have a WP site and an external JSON enpoint (NOT from another WP) and what I want to achieve is to create dynamic "fake" URLs inside wordpress like: example.com/...
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How do I get URL from WP_HTTP object?
I'm using wp_remote_post:
$test = wp_remote_post($environment_url, $args2 );
$test2 = $test['http_response'];
So what I want to do is get the value of URL but I believe the object is ...
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How to consume and display external data in WordPress from another website
I am trying to access data from another website to display on a WordPress Website I am developing. So far I have the following:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Testing remote data
*/
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How to duplicate a curl XML request using HTTP API?
I am working on a plugin that posts an XML request to a vendor's shipping API to get shipping quotes. The XML is stored in a string called $xml. I can post the XML request successfully with curl using ...
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Sending JSON string through wp_remote_post()
I'm building a mailchimp integration and they require a POST call with JSON code.
No, I'm using this code that actually works:
$data = wp_remote_post($url, array(
'headers' => array('...
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How to set a header in wp_safe_remote_get()?
Previously I am using the below code. Now I need to change this code and replace file_get_contents() with wp_safe_remote_get(). I need to know how to set 'header' => "Accept: application/json" ...
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Extending Wordpress REST API
I'm trying to create an API where external clients can authenticate users and reset their password through a REST API. I've already seen this: External WordPress API. However, it looks like this is ...
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How to remove rest api link: in http headers?
i would like to remove the "link:" line added to the http headers since wordpress 4.4
here is a
curl -I killcandida.org
here is the output extract of the line that i would like to delete:
Link: &...
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Turn twitter-urls into list timelines?
I know there's the oEmbed ability to embed a specific tweet, as described in their documentation... but is there any way to simply get the latest in a particular twitter feed, without setting up an ...
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Mutual Authentiction on HTTPS with Wordpress HTTP API?
I'm currently building a prototype to post data from Wordpress to a Rightmove RESTful JSON API (a rental/property website in the UK - specifically the Real Time Datafeed)
Was pretty impressed that ...
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How to make Http Request to a php file present in plugin directory of wordpress
I'am new to wordpress plugin development and I'am developing a plugin (say myplugin) and I'am stuck in following problem.
I had kept this plugin in mywebsite/wp-content/plugin/myplugin
Inside ...
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cURL vs WP_Http for safety?
when it comes to cross domain request for personal information such as user information it must be done on the back-ed for safety reasons. I'm am new to cURL but it has been pointed out to not use it ...
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Proper context for wp_remote_post()
I would like to use wp_remote_post() within a function to send an HTTP Post Request to a php script inside a plug-in.
I'm successfully posting to the plug-in script, but having trouble with the ...
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HTTP digest authentication using wp_remote_get
I am able to implement http basic auth in wp_remote_get using the following code
$args = array(
'headers' => array(
'Authorization' => 'Basic ' . base64_encode( $username . ':' . $...
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How do I create an rssfeed from the contents on this page?
So. I created a gmail rss feed with php that I placed in a custom page. I used this snippet:
function checkGmail($username, $password)
{
$url = "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom";
$curl ...
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How to add code to HTTP header
I have a code that I need to insert into the HTTP header of my website to make Google Fonts work again.
My Google Fonts aren't rendering on one of my simple websites (http://ceobusinessalliance.com). ...
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WP http XML response HTML encoding and image display problems
This is my very first WP plugin. Theres probably going to be more than one question here and they're all related so I'm going to ask all here.
Working test here
Tracking number to use: lc0614061377
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Error timed out with succesfull wp_remote_post
What I'm trying to do: Passing POST data by using wp_remote_post.
foreach ( $articles as $article_id ) {
$postarray = array(
'method' => 'POST',
'timeout' => 5,
'...
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How do I mock HTTP requests for PHPUnit?
I'm writing a plugin that makes requests to the Facebook graph API. As I don't want my unit tests to actually make these requests, how would I overcome this? My method calls both wp_remote_get and ...
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Get full page HTML for a non-public Wordpress page
How can I write a function that will return the full rendered HTML of a non-public URL on my Wordpress site—a URL that you must be logged in to see, such as a draft? Not just the post content, but the ...
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