PayPal community forum latest posts using REST API

Hi Naresh,

if you switch 'Hot Topics' in the URL below with your Community ID (ppl), you will receive an XML response.

https://www.paypal-community.com/ppl/restapi/vc/posts/recent

Hope that helps,

Scott

Thanks scott, its working now..

Hi Scott,

I am looking for both the subject as well as all the replies given in a particular discussion  thread.

https://www.paypal-community.com/ppl/restapi/vc/categories/id/US/posts/recent

But, here i am getting only the topic name(subject) from the replies not the actuall comments.

Basically we need to grep topic as well as replies to that thread

Could you please help me to get this ?

Thanks,

Naresh

Thanks scott

Hi Scott,

https://www.paypal-community.com/ppl/restapi/vc/categories/id/US/posts/recent?restapi.format_detail=full_list_element

When I hit this link, its giving me the recent post(comments) from the forum. Is there anyway, so that I can get the posts for a particular day ?

We need this, becuase,i am trying to automate(schedule) my job, so that it fetches all the comments in a day and store it in our file system for further processing and i can run again for the next day and so on. If I use the above link, but i am not sure 'recent" means when the new data will get updated or is there any timeframe set to update the data ?

Please let me know, if you need more details.

Thanks,

Naresh

Hi again Naresh,

As far as I know, there isn't currently a way to query by date range using the API, slightly more on that here..  A few ways to accomplish what you are trying to do would to be to run the job daily and use the post date in the response XML to determine if the entry should go into the repository. 

An alternative for the purpose you described would be to use the Event Subsription API.

Hope this is useful!

Scott 

Thanks scott for your suggestions.

We may go with the idea of checking the duplicate data from the response with the available repository.

This should be fine.

Naresh

You could potentially use search for getting messages by date. See my example here:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Developers/quot-Realtime-quot-metric-amp-for-a-certain-period-via-REST-API/m-p/53904#M1779