WordPress::XMLRPC(3)

NAME
WordPress::XMLRPC - api to wordpress xml rpc calls

SYNOPSIS
   use WordPress::XMLRPC;

   my $o = WordPress::XMLRPC->new({
     username => 'author1',
     password => 'superpass',
     proxy => 'http://mysite.com/xmlrpc.php',
   });

   my $post = $o->getPost(5); # id 5

   # let's change the title
   $post->{title} = 'I did not like the old title.';

   # let's save the changes back to the server..
   $o->editPost(5, $post, 1); # 1 is publish

DESCRIPTION
I wanted to interact via the command line to a wordpress blog's xmlrpc.php file. Bascially this is interaction with xmlrpc.php as client. This module is not meant for speed, it is meant for convenience.

This is really useful to automate new postings, uploading media, etc.

  WordPress version
This code has been tested against WordPress 4.5.3. Not all the calls available in the API at https://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API are implemented. Please send patches.

CONSTRUCTOR

  new()
Optional arg is hash ref.

Before we open a connection with xmlrpc, we need to have username, password, and proxy in the object's data. You can provide this in the following ways..

   my $o = WordPress::XMLRPC->new({
     username => 'author1',
     password => 'superpass',
     proxy => 'http://mysite.com/xmlrpc.php',
   });

Or..

   my $o = WordPress::XMLRPC->new;

   $o->username('author1');
   $o->password('superpass');
   $o->proxy('http://mysite.com/xmlrpc.php');

   $o->server
      or die(
         sprintf 'could not connect with %s:%s to %s',
            $self->username,
            $self->password,
            $self->proxy,
         );

Uploading a file..

   my $data = WordPress::XMLRPC::abs_path_to_media_object_data('./file.jpg');
   my $r = $o->newMediaObject($data);
   print $r->{url};

DEPRECATED METHODS
Since v1.23 WordPress have not just deprecated but obseleted a number of calls to do with pages and categories. The corresponding methods have been removed from this module, and are slowly being replaced with their current equivalents.

METHODS

  username()
Perl set/get method. Argument is string. If you pass 'username' to constructor, it is prepopulated.

   my $username = $o->username;
   $o->username('bill');

  password()
Perl set/get method. Argument is string. If you pass 'password' to constructor, it is prepopulated.

   my $pw = $o->password;
   $o->password('jim');

  proxy()
Perl set/get method. Argument is string. If you pass 'proxy' to constructor, it is prepopulated.

  server()
Returns XMLRPC::Lite object. proxy() must be set.

  blog_id()
Setget method, set to '1' by default. This seems unused by wordpress. They have some documentation on this.

  publish()
Many methods use 'publish' boolean value, by default we set to 1. You can still pass a value for publish such as;

   $o->newPost( $content_hashref, 1 );

But you can also call;

   $o->newPost( $content_hashref );

As we said, by default it is set to 1, if you want to set the default to 0,

   $o->publish(0);

  errstr()
Returns error string if a call fails.

   $o->newPost(@args) or die($o->errstr);

If the DEBUG flag is on, this warns to STDERR automatically as well.

  STANDARD XML RPC METHODS
These methods specifically mirror the xmlrpc.php file provided by WordPress installations. This file sits on your website.

getAuthors()

Takes no argument. Returns array ref, each element is a hashref.

         $return_value: [
                          {
                            display_name => 'leo',
                            user_id => '2',
                            user_login => 'leo'
                          },
                          {
                            display_name => 'chamon',
                            user_id => '3',
                            user_login => 'chamon'
                          }
                        ]

getComment()

Takes 1 args: comment_id (number). Returns struct (hashref).

   $o->getComment(2603);

Example return value:
   $r: {
         author => 'santrex sucks',
         author_email => 'webmaster@santrexsucks.com',
         author_ip => '66.165.246.149',
         author_url => 'http://santrexsucks.com',
         comment_id => '2603',
         content => 'santrex is the worst hosting company ive ever used. santrex should be avoided at all costs!',
         date_created_gmt => '20090617T00:17:54',
         link => 'http://leocharre.com/articles/its-on-bitch/comment-page-1/#comment-2603',
         parent => '0',
         post_id => '372',
         post_title => 'IT&#8217;S ON BITCH',
         status => 'approve',
         type => '',
         user_id => '0'
       }

getComments()

Takes 1 args: struct (hashref). NOTE: Untested. If you have info on this, send it in.

getCommentCount()

Takes 1 args: post_ID Returns post struct, hashref.
    $VAR1 = {
          'awaiting_moderation' => '0',
          'total_comments' => '0',
          'spam' => '0',
          'approved' => '0'
        };

deleteComment()

Takes 1 args: comment_id (number). Returns bool true or false.

   $o->deleteComment(2603);

editComment()

Takes 2 args: comment_id (number), content_struct (hashref).

newComment()

Takes 2 args: post id, content_struct (hashref). Returns new comment id (number).

This will be posted under your login name. The post id is the post the comment is in regards to.

   $o->newComment( 15, { status => 'approve', content => "Hi there, this is a note." } );

getCommentStatusList()

Takes no argument. Returns hashref.

Example return value:
   $r: {
         approve => 'Approved',
         hold => 'Unapproved',
         spam => 'Spam'
       }

getOptions()

Optional arguments are, a list of option names. If you do not pass a list of options assumes all are chosen. Returns hash ref. Of which each key is the option name. Each value is a hashref itself.

Return hashref format:

   $options => {

      $option_name => {
         desc        => $string,
         readonly    => $boolean,
         value       => $string
      },
   };

Possible option names (as of wordpress 2.8.4):
   blog_tagline, blog_title, blog_url, date_format, software_name,
   software_version, time_format, time_zone

Example return value (with no arguments):

   $options: {
               blog_tagline => {
                                 desc => 'Blog Tagline',
                                 readonly => '0',
                                 value => 'pinup art, perl, unix, developer smorgasbord'
                               },
               blog_title => {
                               desc => 'Blog Title',
                               readonly => '0',
                               value => 'leo charre'
                             },
               blog_url => {
                             desc => 'Blog URL',
                             readonly => '1',
                             value => 'http://leocharre.com'
                           },
               date_format => {
                                desc => 'Date Format',
                                readonly => '0',
                                value => 'F j, Y'
                              },
               software_name => {
                                  desc => 'Software Name',
                                  readonly => '1',
                                  value => 'WordPress'
                                },
               software_version => {
                                     desc => 'Software Version',
                                     readonly => '1',
                                     value => '2.8.4'
                                   },
               time_format => {
                                desc => 'Time Format',
                                readonly => '0',
                                value => 'g:i a'
                              },
               time_zone => {
                              desc => 'Time Zone',
                              readonly => '0',
                              value => '-8'
                            }
             }

Example usage:

   my $options = $o->getOptions('software_name', 'time_zone',);
   my $options = $o->getOptions;

setOptions()

Takes 1 args: options hash ref. Returns same as getOptions().

Argument is hashref with keys the name of the option, and values the new values.

NOTE: The structure of the hashref to setOptions() is *not* the same as the structure that getOptions() returns.

NOTE: Also note, some options are set read only, that means they cannot be changed via this method.

Example usage:

   $o->setOptions({ blog_tagline => 'New tagline for this blog, this is the best blog ever' });

This would return:

   $out: {
           blog_tagline => {
                             desc => 'Blog Tagline',
                             readonly => '0',
                             value => 'New tagline for this blog, this is the best blog ever',
                           }
         }

The value taken by setOptions() should be the same as returned by getOptions(). This is more proof that php "coders" have no discipline. As if proof were needed. Ok, maybe that's too harsh.

newPost()

Takes 2 args: content_struct, publish. Returns id number of new post.

editPost()

Takes 3 args: post_ID, content_struct, publish. Returns boolean, true or false.

deletePost()

Argument is post id(number). Returns boolean.

getPost()

Takes 1 args: post_ID Returns post struct, hashref.

         $example_return_value: {
                                  categories => [
                                                  'Uncategorized'
                                                ],
                                  dateCreated => '20080130T14:19:05',
                                  date_created_gmt => '20080130T22:19:05',
                                  description => 'test description here',
                                  link => 'http://leocharre.com/articles/test_1201731544/',
                                  mt_allow_comments => '1',
                                  mt_allow_pings => '1',
                                  mt_excerpt => '',
                                  mt_keywords => '',
                                  mt_text_more => '',
                                  permaLink => 'http://leocharre.com/articles/test_1201731544/',
                                  postid => '119',
                                  title => 'test_1201731544',
                                  userid => '2',
                                  wp_author_display_name => 'leocharre',
                                  wp_author_id => '2',
                                  wp_password => '',
                                  wp_slug => 'test_1201731544'
                                }

getPostStatusList()

Takes no argument. Returns hashref.

Example return value:
    {
          'draft' => 'Draft',
          'publish' => 'Published',
          'private' => 'Private',
          'pending' => 'Pending Review'
        };

uploadFile()

Takes 1 args: data (hashref). The hashref keys and values are bits (Mime::Base64), type (mime type), and name (filename). See abs_path_to_media_object_data(). Returns result:

   ### $r: {
   ###       file => 'media.jpg',
   ###       type => 'image/jpeg',
   ###       url => 'http://leocharre.com/wp-content/uploads/media3.jpg'
   ###     }

Would be truly useful if it returned id!

getUsersBlogs()

No argument, returns users blogs. Example return :

         $r: [
               {
                 blogName => 'leo charre',
                 blogid => '1',
                 isAdmin => '1',
                 url => 'http://leocharre.com/'
               }
             ]

getUser()

Get a specific user by ID.

Examples:

        $o->getUser({id => 27});
        $o->getUser({id => 27, fields => ['nickname', 'email']);

Arguments:

•   id (mandatory) The ID of the user to retrieve

•   fields (optional) An array reference of fields to return. user_id is always returned. See <https://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API/Users#wp.getUser> for a list of fields.

Returns:

        {
          'roles' => [
                     'administrator'
                   ],
          'registered' => '20160211T14:12:31',
          'nickname' => 'administrator',
          'display_name' => 'administrator',
          'last_name' => '',
          'username' => 'administrator',
          'email' => 'hostmaster@company.com',
          'nicename' => 'administrator',
          'url' => '',
          'user_id' => '1',
          'bio' => '',
          'first_name' => ''
        };

unless you specify 'fields', in which case it returns just those fields plus user_id.

getUsers()

Get a list of users.

Examples:

        $o->getUsers();
        $o->getUsers({filter => {roles => 'administrator'}, fields => ['nickname', 'email']);

Arguments:

•   filter (optional) A hash reference of filter values to select specific users. Filtering is carried out on the WordPress server. See <https://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API/Users#wp.getUsers> for a list of values.

•   fields (optional) An array reference of fields to return. user_id is always returned. See <https://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API/Users#wp.getUser> for a list of fields. Has no efffect unless you also specify filter (because WordPress is weird).

Returns:

        [
         {
            'roles' => [
                       'author'
                     ],
            'registered' => '20160509T13:40:20',
            'nickname' => 'Mariann Ratz',
            'display_name' => 'Mariann Ratz',
            'last_name' => 'Ratz',
            'username' => 'Mariann.ratz',
            'email' => 'Mariann.ratz@company.com',
            'nicename' => 'mariann-ratz',
            'url' => '',
            'user_id' => '42',
            'bio' => '',
            'first_name' => 'Mariann'
          },
          {
            'roles' => [
                       'author'
                     ],
            'registered' => '20160322T12:56:55',
            'nickname' => 'Mark Orkden',
            'display_name' => 'Mark Orkden',
            'last_name' => 'Orkden',
            'username' => 'mark.orkden',
            'email' => 'mark.orkden@company.com',
            'nicename' => 'mark-orkden',
            'url' => '',
            'user_id' => '17',
            'bio' => '',
            'first_name' => 'Mark'
          }
        ];

unless you specify 'fields', in which case it returns just those fields plus user_id.

  EXTENDED XML RPC CALLS
The following calls are not part of the standard WP XML RPC API. To enable them to work you will need to install the Extended XMLAPC API plugin available at <https://github.com/realflash/extended-xmlrpc-api>, and configure it to permit the relevant WP API methods described below. For example, createUser() will not work until you have enabled wp_create_user in your WordPress instance. Until that time you will just get a no such method error.

createUser()

WP API method: wp_insert_user

Make a new user.

Example:

        # Minimum possible information - no capabilities so can't do much
        $o->createUser({ user_login => 'atest.user2', user_pass => 'klsdfslfhew', user_email => 'test.user@mywordpressite.com'});
        # Minium useful information
        $o->createUser({ user_login => 'atest.user2', user_pass => 'klsdfslfhew', user_nicename => 'test-user', display_name => 'Test User', first_name => 'Test', last_name => 'User', role => 'author', user_email => 'test.user@mywordpressite.com'});

Arguments:

•   (mandatory) A hash reference of arguments to pass to wp_create_user. You must specify at least user_login,user_pass and user_email. See <https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_user> for the list of arguments.

Returns:

        113

for example, which is the user_id the newly created user.

addUserMeta()

WP API method: add_user_meta

Add a piece of metadata to a user.

Examples:

        $o->addUserMeta({ user_id => 23, meta_key => 'foo', meta_value => 'bar'});
        $o->addUserMeta({ user_id => 23, meta_key => 'foo', meta_value => 'bar', unique => 'true'});
        $o->addUserMeta({ user_id => 23, meta_key => 'foo', meta_value => 'bar', unique => 'false'});

Arguments:

•   (mandatory) A hash reference of arguments to pass to wp_create_user. You must specify at least user_id, meta_key, and meta_value. See <https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_user_meta> for the list of arguments.

Returns:

        2437

for example, which is the unique key for the database row inserted successfully with the piece of meta information, or 0 if it was unsuccessful.

getUserMeta()

WP API method: get_user_meta

Add a piece of metadata to a user.

Examples:

        $o->getUserMeta({ user_id => 23 });
        $o->getUserMeta({ user_id => 23, meta_key => 'foo'});
        $o->getUserMeta({ user_id => 23, meta_key => 'foo', single => 'true'});

Arguments:

•   (mandatory) A hash reference of arguments to pass to wp_create_user. You must specify at least user_id. See <https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_meta> for the list of arguments.

Returns:

        {
                'show_admin_bar_front' => [ 'true' ],
                'npn_mailnotify' => [ '1' ],
                'wp_4mv06tbsd5_capabilities' => [ 'a:1:{s:6:"author";b:1;}' ],
                'nickname' => [ 'Abdul Hafaaz' ],
                'session_tokens' => [ 'a:1:{s:64:"6df58d104147ce47eba41dd2f6e86a9c144659d4f4b095385eeeea2e26c7bef0";a:4:{s:10:"expiration";i:1482412957;s:2:"ip";s:13:"108.18.98.132";s:2:"ua";s:134:"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_3_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13G36 Safari/601.1";s:5:"login";i:1482240157;}}' ],
                'comment_shortcuts' => [ 'false' ],
                'rich_editing' => [ 'true' ],
                'description' => [ '' ],
                'last_name' => [ 'Hafaaz' ],
                'use_ssl' => [ '0' ],
                'wp_4mv06tbsd5_user_level' => [ '2' ],
                'admin_color' => [ 'fresh' ],
                'first_name' => [ 'Abdul' ]
        }

for example, if you don't specify which key you want. Actual fields will depend upon which plugins you have installed and database table names. Note that each value in the hash is an array, even if there is only one value to display. If you specify meta_key, you will just get the value of that key:

        bar

or an empty string if that key doesn't exist.

DEBUG
This is useful if you get errors..

   $WordPress::XMLRPC::DEBUG = 1;

WISHLIST
It'd be nice to manage links via xmlrpc.php, but this is up to wordpress devs.

BUGS
Please submit to AUTHOR

CAVEATS
This distro is alpha. Included are the metaWeblog and wp method calls.

REQUIREMENTS
XMLRPC::Lite

SEE ALSO
XMLRPC::Lite SOAP::Lite WordPress <http://wordpress.org>

AUTHOR
Originally by Leo Charre leocharre at cpan dot org Adopted by Ian Gibbs igibbs at cpan dot org

  THANKS
People who contributed code, criticism, patches, suggestions;

Alan Haggai Alavi

LICENSE
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e., under the terms of the "Artistic License" or the "GNU General Public License".

DISCLAIMER
This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the "GNU General Public License" for more details.