Unable to access posts as a User

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1

Hey there, I have an endpoint I’m trying to access as a user to get some post data back.

I’m hitting this endpoint https://www.patreon.com/api/oauth2/v2/posts/${postId}?fields${encodeURIComponent("[post]")}=content,title,url,embed_data,embed_url,tiers,published_at

When I’m signed into my account (creator of Campaign) I can get the post data fine. However when signed in to a user account I was get nothing back.

I realized I needed to adjust the scopes and added campaigns and campaigns.posts to my login.

After updating the scopes, I now get this error on the user account:

{
  errors: [
    {
      code: 6,
      code_name: 'ViewForbidden',
      detail: 'You do not have permission to view post with id 81247647.',
      id: '6444a9b0-5568-519f-9ca5-c0e5d642d69e',
      status: '403',
      title: 'You do not have permission to view this post.'
    }
  ]
}

I’ve tried making the posts public, I’m also subscribed to the correct tier on the user account, and am still getting the error.

2

You can only get the posts of someone who has authorized a token with posts scope, and only when using the token. So you need to use your creator token to get your own posts.

3

The creator token resets though, so what would be the best way to keep posts updated?

I was thinking of using the creator token to get all the posts once and then storing that in a database and then using webhooks to update the DB on new posts. Does that seem like an efficient way of using the API for getting posts? I can’t seem to think of another way.

4

If you go through the flow as a user, the creator token would get reset. This is a current issue with the api. Until that is addressed you will need to save the creator scoped token somewhere else and the user scoped token somewhere else.