Freespoke Partner API PHP Client

A lightweight PHP client for the Freespoke Partner API REST gateway.

Requirements

• PHP 8.0+
• Guzzle 7.10+

Installation

composer require freespoke/partner

If installing from GitHub, add a VCS repository entry and require it:

{
  "repositories": [
    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "git@github.com:Freespoke/partner-api-php.git"
    }
  ],
  "require": {
    "freespoke/partner": "dev-master"
  }
}

Quickstart

<?php

use Freespoke\Partner\Article;
use Freespoke\Partner\Client;
use Freespoke\Partner\Person;

$apiKey = getenv('PARTNERS_API_TOKEN');
$client = Client::create($apiKey, 'https://api.partners.freespoke.com');

$article = new Article();
$article->url = 'https://example.com/article';
$article->title = 'Example Title';
$article->description = 'Short summary';
$article->content = '<p>Hello world</p>';
$article->keywords = ['news', 'example'];
$article->publish_time = new DateTimeImmutable('2024-01-01T00:00:00Z');
$article->image_url = 'https://example.com/image.jpg';

$author = new Person();
$author->id = 'author-1';
$author->name = 'John Doe';
$author->url = 'https://example.com/authors/john';
$author->twitter_id = 'john';
$author->facebook_id = 'john.fb';

$article->setAuthors($author);

$result = $client->index($article);
if ($result === null) {
    // The API returned an error message or an incomplete response body.
    exit(1);
}

$status = $client->getIndexStatus($result->job_id);
$epoch = $client->getEpoch();

Client construction

Use the static helper:

$client = Client::create($apiKey, 'https://api.partners.freespoke.com');

Or inject your own Guzzle instance (for custom timeouts, retries, proxies, etc):

use GuzzleHttp\Client as GuzzleClient;
use Freespoke\Partner\Client;

$http = new GuzzleClient([
    'base_uri' => 'https://api.partners.freespoke.com/',
    'timeout' => 10,
]);

$client = new Client($http, $apiKey);

Authentication

All requests use bearer token auth:

Authorization: Bearer <token>

Pass only the token value to the client (do not include the Bearer prefix).

Data model

Article

Required fields:

• url (string)
• title (string)
• content (string)
• publish_time (DateTimeInterface)
• authors (set via setAuthors())

Optional fields:

• description (string)
• keywords (string[])
• image_url (string)

Person

Optional fields:

• id (string)
• name (string)
• url (string)
• bias (float)
• twitter_id (string)
• facebook_id (string)

API methods

Index content

Submit an article to Freespoke for indexing. The API responds with a job token you can poll for completion.

$result = $client->index($article);

Returns IndexResult with job_id and workflow_id when successful. Returns null if the API responds with errorMessage/error_message or if required fields are missing in the response body.

Check indexing status

Poll the status of a previously submitted indexing job.

$status = $client->getIndexStatus($jobId);

Returns IndexStatusResult or null if the response body does not include a job object. The status field maps to the Partner API job status values (JOB_STATUS_PENDING, JOB_STATUS_COMPLETE, JOB_STATUS_FAILED).

Epoch

Check whether the indexing requirements have changed so you can decide when to re-submit content.

$epoch = $client->getEpoch();

Returns the API epoch as an int. If the response body is missing the field, the client returns 0.

An epoch is a unix timestamp. If the most recent moment at which a URL was published to the Freespoke API is before the epoch value, the URL should be resubmitted.

Error handling

The client does not swallow HTTP or network errors. Guzzle will throw a RequestException for non-2xx responses and transport failures. Wrap calls in try/catch if you want to handle these explicitly.

Further Reading

Visit the Integration Guide for more information.

Testing

composer install
./vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit.xml

License

MIT