Publicize / WPCOM API: I can not add publicize connection though API.

[uvkoladiya]

Impacted plugin

Jetpack

Steps to Reproduce

I have tried to add new connection through "https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/1.1/get/sites/%24site/publicize-connections/" here need "keyring_connection_ID". and this key i can only retrieve if we have added the publicized connection.

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What actually happened

I have tried to add new connection through "https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/1.1/get/sites/%24site/publicize-connections/" here need "keyring_connection_ID". and this key i can only retrieve if we have added the publicized connection.

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Operating System

Windows

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Chrome/Chromium

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[jeherve]

If you want to add a new connection, you'll have to use different endpoints. First you'll need to create a Keyring connection, and then use this endpoint to create a new connection: https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/1.1/post/sites/%24site/publicize-connections/new/

To create and manage Keyring connections, I would recommend looking at the different keyring endpoints you can get in the API console here: https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/console/

I hope this helps!

[uvkoladiya]

How to add a keyring connection? Do you mean manually?

[jeherve]

Those things aren't really meant to work outside of a WordPress environment so this may be a bit tricky to set up, but you can find more about Keyring here: https://developer.wordpress.com/?s=keyring

[uvkoladiya]

So basically we can not add publicize connection through API outside of a WordPress environment right?

[pablinos]

You probably can, although the Keyring connections are created using an OAuth flow, and will have people authenticate against the WordPress.com applications. If you look at a section of Calypso like https://wordpress.com/marketing/connections you'll see that we're doing all this via the API.

There is an initial request to get a connection URL, which the user is sent to. They'll be redirected back to wordpress.com, which will create the Keyring connection, and then redirect or perform some other action based on the context. We do have a version of this flow that works within the block editor for the Instagram Gallery Block, but that is only creating the Keyring connection. It should be fairly straightforward to extend that to create a Publicize connection though.

What are you trying to create a Publicize connection for? Could you have the user go through the existing flow for doing that?