Biography

Get or create/update the a user's biography field

Please note that in all urls & code samples you'll need to replace:username and :corporation with appropriate values

Get Biography

GET /v2/organization/:corporation/staff/:username/biography

Headers

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	Bearer <token>

Url

Name	Type	Description
corporation	number	Corporation ID
username	string	Unique username

Response

200

 {
  data: [
    {
      biography: 'Biography text for expert here.'
    }
  ],
  success: true
}

Code

Node

const accessToken = `<ACCESS TOKEN>`

fetch('https://public-api.expertfile.com/v2/organization/:corporation/staff/:username/biography', {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'Authorization': `Bearer ${accessToken}`
    }
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(json => {
    const { success, data } = json

    if (success) {
        const { biography } = data[0]
        console.log('biography', biography)
    }

})
.catch(error => console.error(error));

PHP

$accessToken = urlencode('<ACCESS TOKEN>');
$url = 'https://public-api.expertfile.com/v2/organization/:corporation/staff/:username/biography';

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt(
    $ch,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
    array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Authorization: Bearer ' . $accessToken)
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
$json = json_decode($response);

if($json->success){
    echo $json->data[0]->biography;
}

curl_close($ch);

Curl

curl https://public-api.expertfile.com/v2/organization/:corporation/staff/:username/biography \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS TOKEN>"

Update Biography

POST /v2/organization/:corporation/staff/:username/biography

Headers

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	Bearer <token>

Url

Name	Type	Description
corporation	number	Corporation ID
username	string	Unique username

Body

Name	Type	Description
description*	string	Content of biography *optional

Response

200

{ 
    data: { 
        id: null 
    }, 
    success: true 
}

Code

Node

const data = new URLSearchParams();
const accessToken = `<ACCESS TOKEN>`

data.append('description', 'Your biography text');

fetch('https://public-api.expertfile.com/v2/organization/:corporation/staff/:username/biography', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'Authorization': `Bearer ${accessToken}`
    },
    body: data
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(json => {
    const { success, data } = json

    if (success) {
        const { id } = data
    }

})
.catch(error => console.error(error));

PHP

$accessToken = urlencode('<ACCESS TOKEN>');

$url = 'https://public-api.expertfile.com/v2/organization/:corporation/staff/:username/biography';
$data = ['description' => 'Your biography text'];

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt(
    $ch,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
    array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Authorization: Bearer ' . $accessToken)
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));

$response = curl_exec($ch);
$json = json_decode($response);

if($json->success){
    var_dump($json->data);
}

curl_close($ch);

Curl

curl -X POST https://public-api.expertfile.com/v2/organization/:corporation/staff/:username/biography \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS TOKEN>" \
    -d '{"description":"Your biography text"}'