Share Content

Share third-party content, such as a news article, into the specified stream. The stream can be a chat room or an IM.

PROVISIONAL - Share a piece of content into Symphony

post

Given a 3rd party content (eg. news article), it can share to the given stream. The stream can be a chatroom, an IM or a multiparty IM.

Path parameters

sidstringRequired

Stream ID

Header parameters

sessionTokenstringRequired

Session authentication token.

keyManagerTokenstringOptional

Key Manager authentication token.

Body

application/json

typestringOptional

Type of content to be shared. Currently only support "com.symphony.sharing.article"

Responses

200

Success

application/json

400

Client error, see response body for further details.

application/json

401

Unauthorized: Session tokens invalid.

application/json

403

Forbidden: Caller lacks necessary entitlement.

application/json

500

Server error, see response body for further details.

application/json

post

/v3/stream/{sid}/share

HTTPcURLJavaScriptPython

POST /agent/v3/stream/{sid}/share HTTP/1.1
Host: youragentURL.symphony.com
sessionToken: text
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 258

{
  "type": "text",
  "content": {
    "articleId": "text",
    "title": "text",
    "subTitle": "text",
    "message": "text",
    "publisher": "text",
    "publishDate": 1,
    "thumbnailUrl": "text",
    "author": "text",
    "articleUrl": "text",
    "summary": "text",
    "appId": "text",
    "appName": "text",
    "appIconUrl": "text"
  }
}

{
  "id": "text",
  "timestamp": "text",
  "v2messageType": "text",
  "streamId": "text",
  "message": "text",
  "fromUserId": 1,
  "attachments": [
    {
      "id": "text",
      "name": "text",
      "size": 1
    }
  ]
}

Request Example

curl -X POST \
https://acme.symphony.com/agent/v3/stream/7w68A8sAG_qv1GwVc9ODzX___ql_RJ6zdA/share \
-H "sessionToken: SESSION_TOKEN" \
-H "keyManagerToken: KEY_MANAGER_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
   "type": "com.symphony.sharing.article",
   "content":{
        "articleId":"tsla",
        "title": "The Secret'"'"'s Out: Tesla Enters China and Is Winning",
        "description": "Check this out",
        "publisher": "Capital Market Laboratories",
        "thumbnailUrl": "http://www.cmlviz.com/cmld3b/images/tesla-supercharger-stop.jpg",
        "author": "OPHIRGOTTLIEB",
        "articleUrl": "http://ophirgottlieb.tumblr.com/post/146623530819/the-secrets-out-tesla-enters-china-and-is",
        "summary": "Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) has a CEO more famous than the firm itself, perhaps. Elon Musk has made some bold predictions, first stating that the firm would grow sales from 50,000 units in 2015 to 500,000 by 2020 powered by the less expensive Model 3 and the massive manufacturing capability of the Gigafactory.",
        "appId": "ticker",
        "appName": "Market Data Demo",
        "appIconUrl": "https://apps-dev.symphony.com/ticker/assets/images/logo.png"
    }
}'

📘 Note

Visit Overview for an overview of streams.

🚧 Roles and Privileges

For not public rooms, the caller needs to be on the stream or have the Content Management role. See Bot Permissions for a list of roles and associated privileges.

Content Fields

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
articleId	string	Yes, if articleUrl not specified	A unique ID for this article, not used by any other article
title	string	Yes	The title of the article
subTitle	string	No	The subtitle of the article
message	string	No	The message text that can be sent along with the shared article
publisher	string	Yes	Publisher of the article
publishDate	string	No	Article publish date in unix timestamp (in seconds)
thumbnailUrl	string	No	URL to the thumbnail image
author	string	Yes	Author of the article
articleUrl	string	Yes, if articleId not specified	URL to the article
summary	string	No	Preview summary of the article
appId	string	Yes	App ID of the calling application
appName	string	No	App name of the calling application
appIconUrl	string	No	App icon URL of the calling application