boards->forUser() Not returning secret boards. about php-pinterest-bot

[seregazhuk]

Hi, @zjzeit
When you are trying to fetch business account boards, are you logged in you business account?
I've just created a secret board and it was returned only if I was logged in this account. For other accounts it stays invisible.

[zjzeit]

I am logged into the business account. To verify: I was able to pin from a business account to a secret board using the board ID (thus proving the credentials work). That is sufficient for what I need (I can hardcode the secret boardID), I'm just not able to fetch the secret board via boards->forUser(). I'm wondering if Pinterest doesn't respond with secret boards when the query returns > 20 (or some number) of results. Thanks for this awesome code!

[seregazhuk]

I cannot reproduce it. I've registered a new business account. Created 88 public and 8 private boards.
All of them can be fetched.
My credentials: [email protected]: secret
Try it yourself:

$bot = PinterestBot::create();
$bot->auth->login('[email protected]', 'secret');

$boards = $bot->boards->forUser('bimutriche');

echo count($boards);  // 96

[zjzeit]

Ah thanks for the demo! I was able to replicate the issue but realized the issue only existed because I modified your getUser function. The issue was certainly on my end.
Within forUser() I changed the below, which caused the problem.

from
return $this->execGetRequest(['username' => $username], UrlBuilder::RESOURCE_GET_BOARDS);
to
return $this->execGetRequest(['username' => $username,'field_set_key'=>'detailed'], UrlBuilder::RESOURCE_GET_BOARDS);

After undoing that change, I was able to get all the secret boards again.
I made the change because I needed more board information from the request (I needed all board image_cover_urls and pin_counts, but wanted to only make 1 query), but this resulted in only grabbing public boards.

If you have a way to grab all of a user's boards (including extra data like the image_cover_url and pin_count), that would be awesome. Sorry to post an issue that was really my own issue [:

[seregazhuk]

Oh, I see. I'll research it. Now you can use this

$bot->boards->info('username', 'boardname');

to get board detail information.

[zjzeit]

Gotcha. That would involve iterating through each board as in:

for ($bot->boards->forUser('username') as $board)
{
   $bot->boards->info($board['name']); // note: replace key with whatever key gives the board name
}

Calling info() on each instance would be a lot of URL requests to Pinterest. I was hoping to avoid that many requests, No need to research it on my account! (Unless you are just curious, which I definitely understand). I have accomplished what I need.

[seregazhuk]

@zjzeit
Was field_set_key the only change you made?
I've updated the method like you:

    /**
     * Get boards for user by username.
     *
     * @param string $username
     *
     * @return array|bool
     */
    public function forUser($username)
    {
        $options = [
            'username' => $username,
            'field_set_key'=>'detailed',
        ];
        return $this->execGetRequest($options, UrlBuilder::RESOURCE_GET_BOARDS);
    }

And it still returns all the boards. Do you have any ideas with your issue behaviour?

[zjzeit]

Yeah it's weird: because I cannot replicate the issue with a generated business account, I don't know how to diagnose it. field_set_key was the only change I made. It's not an issue anymore as I can still get the data I need.

[seregazhuk]

Maybe it was an issue on Pinterest side. Anyway, in the next release, I will add 'field_set_key'=>'detailed' as a default behavior for boards-> forUser() method.