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I tried appending to the URI, but that doesn’t seem to work either. I think I might not be sending the right information. What I do is pull the full “place” from the API to manipulate the raw json. I am marking up things like emails and phone numbers to add a content filter so that only members who are logged in can see the “private” data. I can tell from my script that the json is getting updated, but when I attempt a POST back through the API I am not seeing the updates. I am attempting to POST the entire json body. If I just want to update the content, would I just need to send that element by itself?

I have tried adding $key to $uri, but that doesn't work either.  I stripped out the identifying pieces of the code, but the nuts and bolts of what I am trying to do is below.  If I can get this to work, where we see an email or phone pattern in the text of the content I'll add a [content_control] to hide the values unless the user is logged in (has an valid account).  I have added some breaks in there to keep it from running against all records while troubleshooting.

$userID = 'xxxxxx'
$userPassword = 'xxxxxx'
$Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::utf8.GetBytes("$($userID):$($userPassword)")
$encodedAuth = [Convert]::ToBase64String($Bytes)
$header = @{Authorization = "Basic $($encodedAuth)" }

$userID2 = 'yyyyy'
$userPassword2 = 'yyyyyy'
$Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::utf8.GetBytes("$($userID2):$($userPassword2)")
$encodedAuth = [Convert]::ToBase64String($Bytes)
$header2 = @{Authorization = "Basic $($encodedAuth)" }

$email_regex = '([a-zA-Z0-9_-.]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9_-.]+).([a-zA-Z]{2,5})'
$not_email_regex = '(content_control status="logged_in"[a-zA-Z0-9_-.]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9_-.]+).([a-zA-Z]{2,5})'
$phone_regex = '([1-9][0-9][0-9]-[1-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])'
$not_phone_regex = '(content_control status="logged_in"[1-9][0-9][0-9]-[1-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])'

$places = Invoke-RestMethod -method get -uri https://mysite.com/wp-json/geodir/v2/places -headers $header

foreach ($place in $places){
$jsonPlace = $place | ConvertTo-Json
$email = ($place.content.raw | Select-String $email_regex -AllMatches).Matches
$not_email = ($place.content.raw | Select-String $not_email_regex -AllMatches).Matches
if ($email -and ! $not_email) {
$place.content.raw = $place.content.raw.replace($email,'[content_control status="logged_in"]$email[/content_control]').replace('$email',$email)
$place.content.rendered = $place.content.rendered.replace($email,'[content_control status="logged_in"]$email[/content_control]').replace('$email',$email)
}
$phone = ($place.content.raw | Select-String $phone_regex -AllMatches).Matches
$not_phone = ($place.content.raw | Select-String $not_phone_regex -AllMatches).Matches
if ($phone -and ! $not_phone) {
$place.content.raw = $place.content.raw.replace($phone,'[content_control status="logged_in"]$phone[/content_control]').replace('$phone',$phone)
$place.content.rendered = $place.content.rendered.replace($phone,'[content_control status="logged_in"]$phone[/content_control]').replace('$phone',$phone)
}
$place_id = $place.id
$jsonPlace = $place | ConvertTo-Json
$key = "consumer_key=yyyyyy&consumer_secret=yyyyyyy".ToUpper()
$uri = "https://mysite.com/wp-json/geodir/v2/places/$place_id"
$result = Invoke-RestMethod -method POST -uri $uri -headers $header2 -body $jsonPlace
write-output $header2
break
}

break

I’ll have to translate this into powershell, but I’ll give it a whirl. I suspect the issue is that I am pulling the place out using the API, and using it as a json object. What you have is an array, so what I am trying to do may not work.

I did turn on some debugging, and can see that it is complaining about the post_category and member_type.

{“code”:”rest_invalid_param”,”message”:”Invalid parameter(s): post_category,
member_type”,”data”:{“status”:400,”params”:{“post_category”:”post_category[0] is not of type
integer.”,”member_type”:”member_type is not one of Individual,
Business.”},”details”:{“post_category”:{“code”:”rest_invalid_param”,”message”:”post_category[0] is not of type
integer.”,”data”:null},”member_type”:{“code”:”rest_invalid_param”,”message”:”member_type is not one of Individual,
Business.”,”data”:null}}}}

As I really only want to update the content field, perhaps I need to just build the array as you showed me. What I need to know is the minimal set of array elements I need to define. I can pull the fields out of the json to set the elements of the array, and then post the array as the body back through the API. Can you tell me the minimal set of elements I need to set?