API

WatchPitch Privacy Channel Onboarding

WordPress Sites

For Clients who are on WordPress:  WordPress Plugin

• WatchPitch will create a specific shortcode Plugin for the client
• This shortcode will be delivered to the client allowing for their private channel content to be displayed on a page of the client’s choice
  • EXAMPLE SHORTCODE:
    [watchpitch publish_code=34 username=APIUSERNAME apikey=”API KEY”][/watchpitch]
• Once WordPress plugin is integrated, the clients development team has the option to further stylize layout, colors, and branding via CSS. 

For Non-WordPress Clients

• NOTES: For a client not using WordPress and who have their own development team or have access to their preferred software development team, WatchPitch will send the API link and a client specific, unique key for client integration. The client will take the Privacy Coded content, build a page according to their technology stack and display the data accordingly. 
• STEPS FOR INTEGRATION:
  • WatchPitch will provide the API link to the onboarding client, as well as a unique key allowing the client to pull privacy channel data.

JSON API

API URL:

https://www.watchpitch.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pitch?publish_code=34&_embed=author

Please send Basic authentication to the API endpoint on request.

Alternatively, you can send the following request header:

Authorization: Basic Z2FiYnljQGdtYWlsLmNvbTpzWkFQIEhDU2YgcXhISSAyUEdjIHhXRTYgSUNNdHJleXRyZXl0cmV5QGdtYWlsLmNvbTpUdFQ3NzExIyQ=

The JSON response has a few notable fields:

• Author: ._embedded.author[0]
• Author name: .name
• Author avatar URL: .acf.profile_picture.sizes.thumbnail
• Pitch title: .title.rendered
• Pitch video poster: .better_featured_image.media_details.file
• Pitch video URL: .acf.s3_video_url (This URL must be prefixed with https://s3.amazonaws.com/watchpitch/)
• Pitch description: .acf.summary

Here’s a full PHP example of requesting the API & rendering a list of pitches: https://gist.github.com/encounter/3de4704e6e9e19121e844b4d7f6bc5e1