Create Job Post via REST API

Resolved quarfie
(@quarfie)

4 years, 1 month ago
Haven’t used WordPress API before so not sure if I have the right idea. The following results in a draft job posting record being created but it is empty – no title, content, or any other data is populated. Even the job-types array is empty.

curl -X POST https://example.com/wp-json/wp/v2/job-listings/ -u "user:pw" -d @$json

Where $json is:
```
{
	"content": "html content",
	"job-types": [256],
	"meta": {
		"_application": "[email protected]",
		"_job_location": "The Moon"
	},
	"status": "draft",
	"title": "Astronaut"
}
```
What am I doing wrong?

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

Thread Starter quarfie
(@quarfie)

4 years, 1 month ago
Updated the JSON adding “raw” under content & title but still getting the same result.
```
{
	"content": {
		"raw": "html content"
	},
	"job-types": [256],
	"meta": {
		"_application": "[email protected]",
		"_job_location": "The Moon"
	},
	"status": "draft",
	"title": {
		"raw": "Astronaut"
	}
}
```
- This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by quarfie.
toffaboots
(@toffaboots)

4 years, 1 month ago

I post using https://MYSITE/wp-json/wp/v2/job-listings?add&title=”added from app”

You also need authentication, I use JWT Authorisation plugin

you first call https://www.hireme.vip/wp-json/jwt-auth/v1/token?username=YOUR_USER&password=YOUR_PASWORD with your JWT_AUTH_SECRET_KEY in the HEADER

It will then respond with a JWT_AUTH_KEY that you use in all other calls requiring authorisation.

Best
Chris

Thread Starter quarfie
(@quarfie)

4 years, 1 month ago

I am using the new app passwords authentication.

Application Passwords: Integration Guide

Note: I am getting response code 200 and a record IS being created – it’s just missing all the data I passed in…

I’m going to try adding a content-type header and I’ll try setting just one field at a time on the existing record…

Thread Starter quarfie
(@quarfie)

4 years, 1 month ago

Solved it – you have to pass the Content-Type: application/json header.

One wonders why this WordPress page has multiple cURL examples with no headers…
https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/posts/#create-a-post

Also no need to nest title & content in “raw” – I had that right the first time (didn’t try to see if it works both ways).

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

The topic ‘Create Job Post via REST API’ is closed to new replies.