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WordPress - Get Recent Posts

Posted by agiletortoise, Last update over 5 years ago

Use WordPress API to retrieve recent posts from a WordPress blog and make a list of titles and links. Meant as an example only. More advanced options are available via additional parameters as documented in WordPress XML-RPC API docs.

Steps

  • script

    // create credentials for site
    let cred = Credential.createWithHostUsernamePassword("WordPress", "WordPress credentials. Include full URL (with http://) of the home page of your WordPress site in the host field.");
    cred.authorize();
    
    // create WordPress object and make request
    let wp = WordPress.create(cred.getValue("host"), 1, "", "");
    let method = "wp.getPosts"
    let params = [
    	1, // blog_id, in most cases just use 1
    	cred.getValue("username"), 
    	cred.getValue("password")
    ];
    let response = wp.runMethod(method, params);
    
    if (response.success) {
    	// I should have an array of post objects in first param
    	let s = [];
    	let posts = response.params[0];
    	for (let post of posts) {
    		s.push(`- ${post.post_title} [link](${post.link})`);
    	}
    	let d = Draft.create();
    	d.content = s.join("\n");
    	d.update();
    	editor.load(d);
    }
    else {
    	console.log("HTTP Status: " + response.statusCode);
    	console.log("XML-RPC Fault: " + response.faultCode + ", " + response.error);
    	context.fail();
    }
    

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