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Question

Having trouble testing out the legacy basic auth api...

I want to mature this into nodejs or php, for a blog interface, but I can't seem to get the cURL working properly.

I believe I am following their docs... but who knows.

curl --request POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -u "user:key" \
    -d '{"title": "title", "content": "content"}' \
    https://myteststoreurl.mybigcommerce.com/api/v2/blog/posts

I get an empty response when I attempt the following with my person info added in...

When I run

curl --request GET \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -u "user:key" \
    https://myteststoreurl.mybigcommerce.com/api/v2/blog/posts

I get all current posts, correctly. But POST will not work. Also, when updating a post with PUT, it removes the post from the interface but does send the change which I can verify by running the get request.

Any Bigcommerce experts to help out here??

Answer 1

I believe you are doing this from windows and where single quote makes the problem. Change your -d values.

-d "{title\": \"title\", \"content\": \"content\"}"

Also add the -v parameter to see what is curl sending when you perform the request.

Answer 2

This is actually an internal server issue with Bigcommerce API. Even when you type the correct curl command, you receive a 500 error. When running verbose, typing -v, you'll notice.

Answer 3

It looks like a syntax error to me. On you d value when posting the initial double quote for title is on the wrong side of the curly brace. Try this.

curl --request POST \ 
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ 
    -u "user:key" \ 
    -d '{"title": "title", "content": "content"}' \ 
    https://myteststoreurl.mybigcommerce.com/api/v2/blog/posts

Answer 4

Try the same request with something like Advanced REST client (Chrome app) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-client/hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo

If you are still getting the same error most likely it's a Bigcommerce API side issue.