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Creating a Post with the Medium API


How can I create a post with the Medium API? I've followed the documentation and my code seems correct, but not getting a response:

$token = '2baemytoken6234324';

$post = [
    'title' => 'teseee',
    'contentFormat' => 'html',
    'content' => 'eeee',
];

$ch = curl_init('https://api.medium.com/v1/users/132434fafasfasf3434/posts');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
   'Content-Type: application/json',
   'Accept: application/json',
   'Accept-Charset: utf-8',
   'Authorization: Bearer ' . $token
   ));

$data = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Solution

  • You need to json_encode($post). The below script is working for me:

    <?php
    
    $authorId = '179b6b8a8efc9f4f58ad5475c6b6004af5b15';
    $token = '2e6746584d02a677d7575bc7eb89c8789f724cfd';
    
    $curl = curl_init();
    
    $post = [
        "title"         => "Medium API - Testing",
        "contentFormat" => "html",
        "content"       => "<h1>This post is created with Medium API</h1><p>Jai Jinnedra</p>",
        "tags"          => [ "api", "medium", "stakeoverflow" ],
        "publishStatus" => "public",
    ];
    
    curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
        CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.medium.com/v1/users/'.$authorId.'/posts',
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
        CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
        CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
        CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
        CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode($post),
        CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
            'Content-Type: application/json',
            'Authorization: Bearer '.$token,
        ),
    ));
    
    $response = curl_exec($curl);
    
    curl_close($curl);
    echo $response;
    

    I hope it helps.