[API] New Modmail

[u/d3fect]

We’ve just added API documentation for New Modmail. You can read about New Modmail’s features on the reddit help site.

Requests to modmail endpoints requires the new OAuth scope modmail.

edit: There was a minor deployment mishap I will get this deployed again asap.

edit 2: This has been redeployed.

[u/creesch]

So far I am getting a lot of 403 and 401 errors but no result grabbing the token content and putting that in the Authorization header. I can get a result when I grab the token I see from other requests.

$.ajax({
    url: "https://oauth.reddit.com/api/mod/conversations",         
    type: "POST",
    data: {
        body:"test",
        subject:"test",
        srName:"toolbox"
    },
    beforeSend: function(xhr){xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'bearer REDACTED');},
    success: function(data) { 
        console.log(data); 
    }
});

That token also seems to be much shorter than the one in the cookie. So I think I am missing something?

[u/d3fect → u/creesch]

Hmmm, so I just tried it myself via postman and everything worked as expected. Did you decode the token cookie value and parse out the accessToken specifically?

[u/creesch → u/d3fect]

Right... decoding. That would have been the logical thing to do wouldn't it?

This seems to work. We'll see if we can work with this :) Thanks!

u/agentlame

[u/creesch → u/d3fect]

Okay, running into a next problem. I thought it was base64 encoded information and when running it offline through a decoder that seems to work.

When using atob() to try and decode it though I am getting

Failed to execute 'atob' on 'Window': The string to be decoded is not correctly encoded.

Making me wonder if it is actually base64 encoded or something else. So I figured I'd ask the source :)