CURL:
base64credentials="VVNFUjpQQVNTV09SRA==" curl -sk --request POST --url http://tutorialspots.com/wp-json/wp/v2/tags --header "authorization: Basic $base64credentials" --header "content-type: application/json" -d '{"name":"test"}'
Result for insert a new tag:
{"id":1602,"count":0,"description":"","link":"http:\/\/tutorialspots.com\/tag\/test\/","name":"test","slug":"test","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tutorialspots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tutorialspots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tutorialspots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"http:\/\/tutorialspots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Result for get a tag by name:
{"code":"term_exists","message":"A term with the name provided already exists in this taxonomy.","data":{"status":400,"term_id":1602}}
PHP:
<?php function grabAPI($url,$method='POST',$data='') { $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false); $uaa = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3'; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $uaa); $header = array( 'authorization: Basic VVNFUjpQQVNTV09SRA==', 'content-type: application/json', ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST,$method); if($data) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data); return curl_exec($ch); } $x = grabAPI('http://tutorialspots.com/wp-json/wp/v2/tags','POST','{"name":"test"}'); $x = json_decode($x); $x = empty($x->data->term_id)?$x->id:$x->data->term_id; echo $x;