Buffer - Send text to Idea

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Tags: #buffer #idea #text #send #python #api

Author: Florent Ravenel

Last update: 2023-10-11 (Created: 2023-10-11)

Description: This notebook sent a text to a Buffer Idea.

References:

Buffer - Create Idea

Input

Import libraries

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import requests
import json

Setup variables

buffer_url: This variable holds the URL of the specific Buffer profile where you want to create a new post. Example: "https://publish.buffer.com/profile/xxxxxxxxxxx/tab/queue"
text: This variable contains the text content that you want to post on the Buffer profile. You can modify this string to change the content of the post.
cookie: This variable is used to store the cookie information from your Buffer session.

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organization_id = "xxxxxxx"
text = "My Buffer Idea"
cookie = naas.secret.get("BUFFER_COOKIES") or "Inspect your Buffer and Copy/Paste your cookie"

Model

Send text to Idea

This function will send text to Idea using the Buffer API.

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def parse_cookie(cookie):
    data = {}
    for c in cookie.split(";"):
        key = c.split("=", 1)[0].strip()
        value = c.split("=", 1)[-1].strip()
        data[key] = value
    return data

def send_text_to_idea(organization_id, cookie, text):
    # Init
    result = None
    cookies = parse_cookie(cookie)
    
    # Base URL
    url = "https://graph.buffer.com/"
    
    # Headers
    headers = {
        "authority": "graph.buffer.com",
        "accept": "*/*",
        "accept-language": "fr-FR,fr;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7",
        "content-type": "application/json",
        "origin": "https://publish.buffer.com",
        "referer": "https://publish.buffer.com/",
        "sec-ch-ua": '"Google Chrome";v="117", "Not;A=Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="117"',
        "sec-ch-ua-mobile": "?0",
        "sec-ch-ua-platform": '"Windows"',
        "sec-fetch-dest": "empty",
        "sec-fetch-mode": "cors",
        "sec-fetch-site": "same-site",
        "user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
        "x-buffer-client-id": "webapp-publishing"
    }

    data = {
        "operationName": "CreateIdea",
        "variables": {
            "input": {
                "content": {
                    "text": text,
                    "media": [],
                    "tags": []
                },
                "organizationId": organization_id,
                "source": "content"
            }
        },
        "query": 'mutation CreateIdea($input: IdeaCreationInput\u0021) {\n  ideaCreate(input: $input) {\n    ... on IdeaMutationSuccess {\n      success\n      message\n      idea {\n        id\n        content {\n          text\n          __typename\n        }\n        __typename\n      }\n      __typename\n    }\n    ... on CoreWebAppCommonError {\n      message\n      code\n      error\n      __typename\n    }\n    __typename\n  }\n}\n'
    }
    res = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(data), cookies=cookies)
    res.raise_for_status
    if res.status_code == 200:
        result = res.json()
    else:
        print(res.status_code)
        print(res.text)
    return result

result = send_text_to_idea(organization_id, cookies, text)
result

Output

Display result

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result