"Response [400]" (Bad Request) on initiating conversation about py3-pinterest

[bstoilov]

So the version is:
Version: 0.3.0

That is indeed the latest one.
One thing I noticed

user_ids=my_user_id
my_user_id is array right?

[bstoilov]

Glad to hear that it is now working :)

[uzairzia]

I get same response when using an already existing conversation to send message.

Code

from py3pin.Pinterest import Pinterest

pinterest = Pinterest(email=my_email, password=my_password, username=my_username, cred_root=my_cred_root)

conversations = pinterest.get_conversations()
first_conversation = conversations[0]
first_conversation_id = first_conversation['id']

print (first_conversation_id)
response = pinterest.send_message('hi there',first_conversation_id)
print (response)

Response:

5066715636181289166
<Response [400]>

Any help shall be much appreciated. :) Thank you.

[bstoilov]

I will look in to it, can you print the content of the response, response.content, there might be some clues there

[uzairzia]

So it says invalid HTTP method for resource method.
This is not the entire output of response.content. Sine it's very long and probably not of any use, I have trimmed the trailing output. But please let me know in case it makes it easier for you.

Thank you :)

    "resource_response":{
        "error":{
            "status":"failure",
            "http_status":400,
            "code":12,
            "message":"INVALID_HTTP_METHOD_FOR_RESOURCE_METHOD"
        }
    },

[uzairzia]

Just some additional information.

In the file Pinterest.py,
there is (at Line 48):
CONVERSATION_RESOURCE = 'https://www.pinterest.com/resource/ConversationsResource/get/
when I visit this URL in my browser, I get:

{ "resource_response": { 
      "status" : "success",
      "code":0,
      ...

This above resource is used for get_conversations() and from the response in browser we can see that it works perfectly fine.

---

Also in the same file at Line 49, there is:
CONVERSATION_RESOURCE_CREATE = 'https://www.pinterest.com/resource/ConversationsResource/create/'
when I visit this URL in my browser, I get:

{  "resource_response" : { 
        "error": {
            "status" : "failure", 
            "http_status" : 400, 
            "code" : 12,
            "message" : "INVALID_HTTP_METHOD_FOR_RESOURCE_METHOD"
         }
    },
    ...

This above resource is used for initiate_conversation() and from the response in browser we can see that the resource does not work.

I get this same error when visiting the URL for resource SEND_MESSAGE = 'https://www.pinterest.com/resource/ConversationMessagesResource/create/' (at Line 51 in Pinterest.py).

[bstoilov]

Thank you for being so proactive. 'https://www.pinterest.com/resource/ConversationMessagesResource/create/' is a POST requests and your browser makes GET requests in the url, so it is normal to get INVALID_HTTP_METHOD_FOR_RESOURCE_METHOD.

As for the issue I was not able to reproduce it.
Can you check the following things:

• You are able to send message to the user using the pinterest UI
• The user hasn't blocked you or anything like that
• You are using the latest code/build

[bstoilov]

https://github.com/bstoilov/py3-pinterest/blob/master/messages_example.py

The last line works just fine for me:
send_message(username='username', message='hi2')

it will initiate the conversation if there are no previous messages with this user

[uzairzia]

Thank you for the post/get information :)

Regarding the things that you mentioned:

• I am able to send messages to the user through the UI.
• The user hasn't blocked me.
• I am stuck here. Something wrong with my pip. So fixing that in the meanwhile. Is there any way on your mind to check for the version without using pip?

I used the file messages_example.py and the same error occurs if I print the response in the function. I tried this with two different users of Pinterest, just to be sure. Still not working :(

I am fixing my pip and after fixing, will find the version of py3-pinterest and will let you know.

[bstoilov]

You could try directly checking out the code.
You can even checkout this PR branch
to see if I have some how managed to fix the issue without realizing, but I highly doubt this.

[uzairzia]

So the version is:
Version: 0.3.0

[uzairzia]

You could try directly checking out the code.

Yup done that too but still no luck till now. I am gonna have to dig deeper.

You can even checkout this PR branch

I'll do that too and will let you know when I succeed.

Thank you for your time and help :)
Cheers.

[uzairzia]

my_user_id is array right?

Goodness me. I cannot believe this. I made the my_user_id an array and appended the ID to it. It finally works.

I spent almost one entire day on this and look where the issue was.

Thank you Mr. Stoilov for the help. I am grateful to you. :)

Cheers and please continue with this marvellous project.

Just for future users:
When initiating conversation, user_ids in the argument passed to function initiate_conversation(self, user_ids=None, message='hi') should be an array/list.