Write to a page from code

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I'm want to put text on a page (or create a page in a folder) from code
ChatGPT says first I need an auth token:

import requests
url = 'Springfed'
payload = {'login':'user', 'password':'pwd'}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload)
token = response.json().get('token')
...

2 issues:
response.json()
throws an error
...
JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

response.content includes the string:
Cookies are not enabled. You must enable cookies before you can log in

Where should I look for an example of doing this?

Thanks,
Kent

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Read the plone,restapi docs instead of using ChatGPT.
We are not here fix for fixing ChatGPT‘s nonsense code.

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oops, sorry. I found it amusing, not so much on here.

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from https://plonerestapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/content.html
response = requests.post('https://springfed.com/gather-1',
              headers={'Accept': 'application/json',
                       'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
              json={'@type': 'Document', 'title': 'My Document'},
              auth=('user', 'pwd'))

response.json()

{'message': "Missing 'plone.restapi: Use REST API' permission",
 'type': 'Unauthorized'}

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Kent

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If you run the code from the same machine, plone.api might be simpler (?)

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Wild guess: your user account does not have the right/permissions to use the plone.restapi
Apart from that: requests.post() takes a URL...not use what Sprintfed should be..the code does not make much sense.

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Apart from that: requests.post() takes a URL.
I wrote a URL and it was converted to "Springfed" by the editor
can I edit in plain text mode, or do URLs need 'preformatted text' applied?

yesterday I noticed that the plone.restapi add-on wasn't installed, things
have changed since it's installed

I can now get a token per Authentication — plone.restapi v8.24.2.dev0 and
use the token to create documents in a folder.

The next challenge is to send text to the new page, or can the POST statement also specify content?

Thanks,
Kent

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This is for computer recycling.
The script will be on a bootable USB which runs a tool which
gathers hardware data, generates an ID for the computer
and creates a page with that ID containing the hardware specs,
so it can't run on the server.

Thanks,
Kent

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Text can be sent with a POST request when creating a resource.

Once the resource exists text can be updated with PATCH request

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This part creates content. It can be done from a script (python)

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This looks like it must run on the site server ...

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the description and example are aimed at metadata, the example changes the title
I need to access the text on the page

does the json in the PATCH call offer an index like 'body': or 'content' or 'text' ?

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Documents have text.

Try something like the following (omit the fields you don't want to change):

requests.patch(
    'http://nohost/plone/folder/my-document',
    headers={'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
    json={
        'title': 'Your new title',
        "description": "Your new description",
        "text": {
            "content-type": "text/html",
            "data": "your text <b>bold text</b>",
            "encoding": "utf-8"
        }
    },
    auth=('admin', 'secret')
)

To see the attributes in your resource, you could simply call requests.get('http://nohost/plone/folder/my-document', headers={'Accept': 'application/json'}, auth=('admin', 'secret')) as described in the GET request and read the structure of the json result.

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Great, now I have what I need!

Thanks,
Kent

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Yes, it has to be run on server