Title: API errors thrown when used with WP-CLI
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# API errors thrown when used with WP-CLI

 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-errors-thrown-when-used-with-wp-cli/)
 * I was debugging a site for a customer on our servers, and they were havign a 
   whole pack of Varnish errors. When I was setting up a whitelist on our server,
   I noticed
 *     ```
       GrabPress:<line 958>Grabpress_API::get_feeds()
       GrabPress:<line 763>Grabpress_API::validate_key()
       GrabPress:<line 1247>Grabpress_API::call(GET, /user/validate?api_key=[REDACTED])
       status = 200, response ={"headers":{"accept-ranges":"bytes","age":"535","cache-control":"public, max-age=600","content-type":"application\/json; charset=utf-8","date":"Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:07:38 GMT","etag":"\"[REDACTED]\"","server":"Apache\/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)","status":"200 OK","via":"1.1 varnish","x-content-type-options":"nosniff","x-frame-options":"SAMEORIGIN","x-powered-by":"Phusion Passenger 4.0.40","x-request-id":"b998f3f6-bd68-40ef-b830-5649b13e37f1","x-runtime":"0.046819","x-ua-compatible":"chrome=1","x-varnish":"1671915444 1671908686","x-xss-protection":"1; mode=block","content-length":"76","connection":"Close"},"body":"{\"user\":{\"id\":462870,\"email\":\"[REDACTED]@grab.press\"}}","response":{"code":200,"message":"OK"},"cookies":[],"filename":null}
       GrabPress:<line 716>Grabpress_API::get_connector()
       GrabPress:<line 617>Grabpress_API::validate_key()
       GrabPress:<line 1247>Grabpress_API::call(GET, /user/validate?api_key=[REDACTED]) ....
       ```
   
 * I snipped all the rest of the API call, but it’s actually dumping the API information,
   emails, passwords, etc. Which isn’t good!
 * All of that SEEMS to be coming from the function plugin_messages() which is called
   by this:
 * add_action( ‘wp_loaded’, array( ‘GrabPress’, ‘plugin_messages’ ) );
 * Which means EVERY time WP is loaded, that’s called (see [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/wp_loaded](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/wp_loaded)
   for more info).
 * It’s very possible that the over abundance of those calls is why Varnish is pitching
   a fit. I would personally change that to admin_init, if I HAD to run it on every
   single page load of admin, but really that seems like overkill. Instead, I would
   be using a Dashboard Widget (like the stats section or the Right Now one) via
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Widgets_API](http://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Widgets_API)–
   that would use far less resources.
 * There are whole mess of other options of course 🙂
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference#Administrative_Actions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference#Administrative_Actions)
 * I don’t know why/where this is actually needing to be called, though, without
   backstepping through ALL the code. You shouldn’t be calling that API on every
   pageload though, it’s really overkill. Even if you need to phone home at regular
   intervals to pull data, which is fine as you’re a service, using a cron call 
   would be better. Call it once an hour or five minutes if you must.
 * Happy to help bang on this! Just saw it and thought perhaps there may be a better
   way around it 🙂
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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-errors-thrown-when-used-with-wp-cli/)
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