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Unable to Post on Pinterest using their API

I'm receiving a 400 Bad Request error message when posting a pin on Pinterest. It works using Postman, but doesn't work programmatically. Using C#, has anyone been able to successfully post a pin on Pinterest without using the pinsharp wrapper?
private void postPinterest(string messages, string id, string usertoken, string image, string boardname, string username)
{
string link = null;
boardname = boardname.Replace(" ", "-");
string board = username + "/" + boardname;
string url = "https://api.pinterest.com/v1/pins?access_token=" + usertoken;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(board))
sb.Append("&board=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(board));
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(messages))
sb.Append("&note=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(messages));
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(link))
sb.Append("&image_url=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(link));
string postdata = sb.ToString().Substring(1);
PostData(url, postdata);
}
private object PostData(string url, string postdata)
{
object json=null;
try
{
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
req.Method = "POST";
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
// req.Accept = "application/json";
using (var stream = req.GetRequestStream())
{
byte[] bindata = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postdata);
stream.Write(bindata, 0, bindata.Length);
}
HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
string response = new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
json = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(response);
return json;
}
catch (WebException wex)
{
if (wex.Response != null)
{
using (var errorResponse = (HttpWebResponse)wex.Response)
{
using (var reader = new StreamReader(errorResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
string error = reader.ReadToEnd();
return json;
}
}
}
}
return json;
}
EDIT:
It doesn't work using the JSON format or x-www-form-urlencoded format.
I changed the content type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded and now I'm receiving the error message below. I receive 400 Bad Request error using JSON format:
"{\n \"message\": \"405: Method Not Allowed\",\n \"type\": \"http\"\n}"

The problem is the the parameter that you are posting.
In the Api i could find board as a parameter but both note and image comes under field parameter which specifies the return type JSON.
As per documentation on this page you can post in this format
https://api.pinterest.com/v1/boards/anapinskywalker/wanderlust/pins/?
access_token=abcde&
limit=2&
fields=id,link,counts,note
So I tried the following and its getting response
https://api.pinterest.com/v1/boards/?access_token="YourTokenWithoutQuotes"&fields=id%2Ccreator
Would suggest you to first test the Api you are hitting putting a breakpoint inside the PostData function and check if the passed url is in the correct format and compare it with Pininterest API Explorer.
As you might have already received authorization code and access token so I am assuming your post function should be working fine.

public string postPinterest(string access_token,string boardname,string note,string image_url)
{
public string pinSharesEndPoint = "https://api.pinterest.com/v1/pins/?access_token={0}";
var requestUrl = String.Format(pinSharesEndPoint, accessToken);
var message = new
{
board = boardname,
note = note,
image_url = image_url
};
var requestJson = new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(message);
var client = new WebClient();
var requestHeaders = new NameValueCollection
{
{"Content-Type", "application/json" },
{"x-li-format", "json" }
};
client.Headers.Add(requestHeaders);
var responseJson = client.UploadString(requestUrl, "POST", requestJson);
var response = new JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize<Dictionary<string, object>>(responseJson);
return response;
}

Paypal HTTP post request gives Invalid Merchant or Merchant doesn't exist error in MVC C#

I am facing trouble in making an HTTP post request to Paypal for Secure token to use Paypal's Hosted solution but I am getting this error:
Some required information is missing or incorrect. Please correct the fields below and try again.
Error: Invalid Merchant or Merchant doesn't exist!
This is my C# code throught which I am making HTTP calls:
string strNVP = "https://pilot-payflowpro.paypal.com?PARTNER=PayPal&USER=myUsername&VENDOR=myVendorName&PWD=myPassword&TRXTYPE=A&AMT=" + obj.CurrentPackagePrice + "&CREATESECURETOKEN=Y&SECURETOKENID=" + Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
HttpWebRequest wrWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(strNVP);
wrWebRequest.Method = "POST";
StreamWriter requestWriter = new StreamWriter(wrWebRequest.GetRequestStream());
requestWriter.Write(strNVP);
requestWriter.Close();
HttpWebResponse hwrWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)wrWebRequest.GetResponse();
StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(wrWebRequest.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());
//and read the response
string responseData = responseReader.ReadToEnd();
responseReader.Close();
string result = Server.UrlDecode(responseData);
string[] arrResult = result.Split('&');
Hashtable htResponse = new Hashtable();
string[] responseItemArray;
foreach (string responseItem in arrResult)
{
responseItemArray = responseItem.Split('=');
htResponse.Add(responseItemArray[0], responseItemArray[1]);
}
string responseResult = htResponse["RESULT"].ToString();
string response = htResponse["RESPMSG"].ToString();
///for Success response
if (responseResult == "0" && response == "Approved")
{
ViewBag.secureToken = htResponse["SECURETOKEN"].ToString();
ViewBag.secureTokenId = htResponse["SECURETOKENID"].ToString();
}
Kindly help me in this problem may b I have done some wrong in my code above also.

The issue was that I was unable to receive a Token and TokenID due to that this exception was arising and then I resolved my issue by making modifications in the above code so that the Paypal sends back a response with Token and TokenID which I used in iframe and its working perfect now.
var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://pilot-payflowpro.paypal.com");
var postData = "PARTNER=PayPal&USER=myUser&VENDOR=myVendor&PWD=myPassword&TRXTYPE=A&AMT=50&CREATESECURETOKEN=Y&SECURETOKENID=" + Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
var data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postData);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.ContentLength = data.Length;
using (var stream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
}
var responseData = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
var responseString = new StreamReader(responseData.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
string result = Server.UrlDecode(responseString);
string[] arrResult = result.Split('&');
Hashtable htResponse = new Hashtable();
string[] responseItemArray;
foreach (string responseItem in arrResult)
{
responseItemArray = responseItem.Split('=');
htResponse.Add(responseItemArray[0], responseItemArray[1]);
}
string responseResult = htResponse["RESULT"].ToString();
string response = htResponse["RESPMSG"].ToString();
///for Success response
if (responseResult == "0" && response == "Approved")
{
ViewBag.secureToken = htResponse["SECURETOKEN"].ToString();
ViewBag.secureTokenId = htResponse["SECURETOKENID"].ToString();
}
The above code is buggy and throws exceptions while receiving a response etc. So this code block is working good.

Set a body for WebClient when making a Post Request

So I have an api that I want to call to. The first call is an ahoy call and in the body of the request I need to send the ship_type, piratename and my piratepass. I then want to read the response which has my treasure booty that i will use for later.
I'm able to do this with web request. but i feel like there is a better way to do it with webclient.
(way I currently do it in webrequest)
//Credentials for the Pirate api
string piratename = "IvanTheTerrible";
string piratepass= "YARRRRRRRR";
string URI = "https://www.PiratesSuperSecretHQ.com/sandyShores/api/respectmyauthority";
WebRequest wr = WebRequest.Create(URI);
wr.Method = "POST";
wr.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
string bodyData = "ship_type=BattleCruiser&piratename=" + piratename + "&piratepass=" + piratepass;
ASCIIEncoding encoder = new ASCIIEncoding();
byte[] byte1 = encoder.GetBytes(bodyData);
wr.ContentLength = byte1.Length;
//writes the body to the request
Stream newStream = wr.GetRequestStream();
newStream.Write(byte1, 0, byte1.Length);
newStream.Close();
WebResponse wrep = wr.GetResponse();
string result;
using (var reader = new StreamReader(wrep.GetResponseStream()))
{
result = reader.ReadToEnd(); // do something fun...
}
Thanks in advance either way.

You can do with this simple code
Uri uri = new Uri("yourUri");
string data = "yourData";
WebClient client = new WebClient();
var result = client.UploadString(uri, data);
Remember that you can use UploadStringTaskAsync if you want to be async

You can try like below as well:
public String wcPost(){
Map<String, String> bodyMap = new HashMap();
bodyMap.put("key1","value1");
WebClient client = WebClient.builder()
.baseUrl("domainURL")
.build();
String responseSpec = client.post()
.uri("URI")
.headers(h -> h.setBearerAuth("token if any"))
.body(BodyInserters.fromValue(bodyMap))
.exchange()
.flatMap(clientResponse -> {
if (clientResponse.statusCode().is5xxServerError()) {
clientResponse.body((clientHttpResponse, context) -> {
return clientHttpResponse.getBody();
});
return clientResponse.bodyToMono(String.class);
}
else
return clientResponse.bodyToMono(String.class);
})
.block();
return responseSpec;
}

How to create folder and upload file using Rest api and oauth2.0

I want to create a folder and upload files using rest api
my code is like this
public string CreateFolder(string FolderName)
{
int WorkSpaceId = 330201;
int id = 168079105;
var queryString = HttpContext.Current.Session["tokenSession"];
var request = WebRequest.Create(RequestProfileUrl + FolderName);
request.AuthenticationLevel = System.Net.Security.AuthenticationLevel.None;
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + AccessToken);
request.ContentType = "multipart/form-data";
request.Method = "POST";
var response = request.GetResponse();
HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect("" + request.RequestUri);
using (var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
{
var reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
var responseText = reader.ReadToEnd();
reader.Close();
return responseText;
}
}
I have to do like this
POST https://apis.live.net/v5.0/me/skydrive
Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN
Content-Type: multipart/form-data
{
"name": "My example folder"
}`
I added request header and content-type, I don't know how to add name parameter to my request.

To write the body of your POST request you need to get the request stream first, and then write to it. See the sample code below. Note that I changed the Content-Type from "multipart/form-data" to "application/json" as this is what your data seems to be.
// String with the body content
string postBody = "{\"name\":\"myfoldername\"}";
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding ();
byte[] byte1 = encoding.GetBytes (postBody);
// Set Content type to application/json
myHttpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/json";
// Set content length of the string being posted.
myHttpWebRequest.ContentLength = byte1.Length;
// Get the request stream and write body bytes to it
Stream newStream = myHttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream ();
newStream.Write (byte1, 0, byte1.Length);

oauth/token returns empty body

I am encountering a problem getting the access_token in client application using oauth.
The returned response has empty body though in API I can see the response is not empty.
tokenresponse = {
"access_token":"[ACCESSTOKENVALUE]",
"token_type":"bearer",
"expires_in":"1200",
"refresh_token":"[REFRESHTOKENVALUE]",
"scope":"[SCOPEVALUE]"
}
The method from API that returns the token http://api.sample.com/OAuth/Token:
public ActionResult Token()
{
OutgoingWebResponse response =
this.AuthorizationServer.HandleTokenRequest(this.Request);
string tokenresponse = string.Format("Token({0})", response!=null?response.Body:""));
return response.AsActionResult();
}
The client method that requests the token is:
public string GetAuthorizationToken(string code)
{
string Url = ServerPath + "OAuth/Token";
string redirect_uri_encode = UrlEncode(ClientPath);
string param = string.Format("code={0}&client_id={1}&client_secret={2}&redirect_uri={3}&grant_type=authorization_code",code, ClientId, ClientSecret, redirect_uri_encode);
HttpWebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(Url) as HttpWebRequest;
string result = null;
request.Method = "POST";
request.KeepAlive = true;
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.Timeout = 10000;
request.Headers.Remove(HttpRequestHeader.Cookie);
var bs = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(param);
using (Stream reqStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
reqStream.Write(bs, 0, bs.Length);
}
using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
{
var sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
result = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
}
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(result))
{
TokenData tokendata = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<TokenData>(result);
return UpdateAuthorizotionFromToken(tokendata);
}
return null;
}
The result variable is empty.
Please let me know if you have any idea what could cause this. Initially I assumed is because of the cookies so I tried to remove them from request.
Thanks in advance.

Dear just create webclient using following code and you will get json info in tokeninfo.I used it and simply its working perfect.
WebClient client = new WebClient();
string postData = "client_id=" + ""
+ "&client_secret=" + ""
+ "&grant_type=password&username=" + "" //your username
+ "&password=" + "";//your password :)
string soundCloudTokenRes = "https://api.soundcloud.com/oauth2/token";
string tokenInfo = client.UploadString(soundCloudTokenRes, postData);
You can then use substring that contains only token from tokeninfo.
To upload tracks on sound cloud.
private void TestSoundCloudupload()
{
System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;
var request = WebRequest.Create("https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks") as HttpWebRequest;
//some default headers
request.Accept = "*/*";
request.Headers.Add("Accept-Charset", "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3");
request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate,sdch");
request.Headers.Add("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.8,ru;q=0.6");
//file array
var files = new UploadFile[] { new UploadFile(Server.MapPath("Downloads//0.mp3"), "track[asset_data]", "application/octet-stream") };
//other form data
var form = new NameValueCollection();
form.Add("track[title]", "Some title");
form.Add("track[sharing]", "public");
form.Add("oauth_token", "");
form.Add("format", "json");
form.Add("Filename", "0.mp3");
form.Add("Upload", "Submit Query");
try
{
using (var response = HttpUploadHelper.Upload(request, files, form))
{
using (var reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
Response.Write(reader.ReadToEnd());
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Response.Write(ex.ToString());
}
}