Post text or comment to Reddit / subreddit community

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Hello,

I have obtained the oAuth from Reddit and able to GET info according to the APIs of them.
Do anyone know how to POST text or comment?
I couldn’t make happened and the info on the developer page is unclear or maybe can’t make with Postman?

Thank you

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Hey @CryptoAngel

Can you share your POST request and the documentation you’re following please?

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Thank you for trying to help.
Please see this https://www.reddit.com/dev/api#POST_api_site_admin

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I think your problem is the API you’re trying to use. My guess is that you aren’t a site admin, so the api you linked will not work for you.

If you want to add a comment, here is the documentation for that API.

If you want to submit a new link, here is the documentation for that API.

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Thank you for your comment.
I don’t need to be site admin to use the API, I have oAuth key which Reddit issued to me.
According to the link you’ve sent, I don’t understand how to use it on Postman, and that’s what I’ve asked here in first place.

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REST APIs use json payloads in the request body. These payloads are nothing more than a key value pair. According to the documentation, to add a comment you need two key/values:

{
    "parent": "<identifier for the entity you are commenting on>",
    "text": "<markdown of the comment you want to add>"
}

If I had to guess, I would say that this is the id of a post

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So putting that in Postmtan might look like this

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Thank you so much for your effort to find the solution.
Something is missing, since the way you suggested anyone can post a comment to Reddit. Ether needs to be signin before or have the oAuth key as part of the URL. I tried your suggested but it doesn’t work ;-(

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You need to add your authorization token in the Authorization tab.

Or you can do whatever you did for your GET that is working.

If it’s adding a query parameter, then add a query parameter to the url