Public preview card

Integrations & API
1

Is there a way to insert a public preview card via an API call? I can easily upload HTML cards with the API, but I’d like to also insert the public preview card in the middle of the post.

2

Unfortunately it seems that the parser will not presently add a preview card from an html-created post.

My project required this card, so I developed a workaround, posted here. Hopefully you can adapt it to your situation.

3

Thanks, @Jason ! This looks doable, I’ll port your solution to Python and work on it.

4

Yes – it worked! Thanks again, @Jason !

5

This is a simplified version of the Python code which I’m using:

    G = newGhost(site)
    post = G.getPostById(id)
    js = json.loads(post['posts'][0]['mobiledoc'])
    js['cards'].append(['paywall', {}])
    index = len(js['cards'])-1
    js['sections'].insert(1, [10,index])
    newPost = G.updatePost(id, 'mobiledoc', json.dumps(js))
6

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for contributing your clean code to the discussion.

7

Just be aware that the code will stop working when the new editor leaves beta because mobiledoc won’t exist.

If you enable the beta now you can use a <!-- members-only --> comment in your HTML to create the public preview card.

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