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# Create Meme

POST https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/memes
Content-Type: application/json

Made by the app's rules, whoever asks: the template must be in the
workspace and not archived, the captions are folded, cut at 140
characters and fitted to the layout's boxes (padded or trimmed), a
meme with no words is refused with `422`, a `layout` equal to the
template's is not stored, and the meme appears in the workspace's
activity. A signed-in session makes it as that person; a key's is
credited, in the feed and in the activity, to the key's maker.

Reference: https://docs.taktoria.com/api-reference/memegen/create-meme

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Servers

- `https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1` (Production, default)
- `http://localhost:3000/api/v1` (Local)

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a CreateMemeRequest.

- `templateId` (string, required) — A template in the workspace that is still in the picker. One an app admin archived is refused with `422`; memes already made from it are kept and keep rendering. A one-off background (`curated: false`) may be used.
- `captions` (list of string, required) — One per caption box, in the layout's order. Each is folded onto one line and cut at 140 characters; extra captions are dropped and missing ones left empty. At least one must have words, or `422`. Up to 8, each at most 500 characters as sent.
- `layout` (enum, optional) — A different layout for this meme only. Stored only when it differs from the template's own.
  - Allowed values: `CAPTION`, `TOP_BOTTOM`, `THREE_PANEL`, `SPLIT`

## Response

### 200

- `id` (string, required)
- `organizationId` (string, required)
- `templateId` (string, required)
- `captions` (list of string, required) — One per caption box, in order.
- `score` (integer, required) — Upvotes. There is no downvote: a workplace tool that lets colleagues bury each other's jokes is a different, worse product.
- `hasVoted` (boolean, required) — Whether the signed-in person has upvoted it. Always `false` for an API key, which acts for the workspace and has no vote.
- `createdAt` (datetime, required)
- `template` (MemeTemplate, optional) — A background somebody can caption.
- `layout` (enum, optional) — What this meme wanted, when that differs from its template's own layout. Absent means "whatever the template says", so re-pointing a template still moves every meme that never overrode it.
  - Allowed values: `CAPTION`, `TOP_BOTTOM`, `THREE_PANEL`, `SPLIT`
- `author` (User, optional) — A person in a Taktoria organization.
- `authorId` (string, optional)

## Errors

### 402 Subscription Required Error

The organization has no subscription for the app that lets it in: active, trialing or past due. One that is unpaid (Stripe stopped retrying a failed payment), paused, incomplete or cancelled answers this too, and the message says which: an unpaid app is locked until a workspace admin updates the payment details. `details.status` is the app's subscription status (null with none), and `details.paymentIssue` is `unpaid`, or `payment_failed` for an incomplete one whose first payment failed, as `paymentIssue` on `GET /subscription` reckons it; null when a payment is not why.

- `error` (ErrorDetail, required)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Refused, and `error.code` says why. On an app's write endpoints, a signed-in session is refused `viewer_only` when the person is a Viewer of the app (they read it, and change nothing in it), and `seat_required` without a seat on it; a key is never either. Beyond those: `admin_required` when the change is an admin's (an app admin's for an app's admin powers, a workspace admin's for the workspace's settings), `forbidden` when the person may not change this one thing, `read_only_session` for a change only a key makes, `person_required` for what only a signed-in person does through their own account elsewhere (exporting a LaunchCal artifact to their docs tool), which a key cannot, `insufficient_scope` for a key without the scope, and `google_sign_in_required` for a session the workspace's Google rule turns away. Nothing was done.

- `error` (ErrorDetail, required)

### 404 Not Found Error

- `error` (ErrorDetail, required)

### 422 Validation Error

- `error` (ErrorDetail, required)

### 429 Too Many Requests Error

Rate limited (`rate_limited`): the key, the signed-in person, the workspace or an expensive endpoint's own budget is used up for now. `Retry-After` says how many seconds to wait, and `details` names the `policy`, its `limit`, `windowSeconds` and `retryAfter`. Every answer to an authenticated request carries the IETF `RateLimit-Policy` and `RateLimit` headers, so a client can slow down before it gets this. Nothing was done; wait and send it again. See "Rate limits".

- `error` (ErrorDetail, required)

## Types

### MemeTemplate

A background somebody can caption.

- `id` (string, required)
- `organizationId` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `slug` (string, required)
- `layout` (enum, required) — Where the captions sit on a template.
  - Allowed values: `CAPTION`, `TOP_BOTTOM`, `THREE_PANEL`, `SPLIT`
- `curated` (boolean, required) — Part of the library the workspace curates, rather than a background somebody found while composing one meme. Only curated templates appear in the picker.
- `archived` (boolean, required) — Out of the picker. Memes already made from it keep rendering, which is why a template is archived rather than deleted, but no new meme can be made from it. Only an app admin of Memegen, or a key, brings one back: `archived: false` on `PATCH`, or adding its picture again with `POST /meme-templates`, `/meme-templates/from-url` or `/meme-templates/import`, which restores it. Anybody else who adds the same picture again is refused ("An admin removed this template.") and it stays archived.
- `sortOrder` (integer, required)
- `createdAt` (datetime, required)
- `updatedAt` (datetime, required)
- `builtinKey` (string, optional) — Set on the templates that ship with the app.
- `imageUrl` (string, optional) — The background, an http or https address. Absent on a built-in, which the app draws itself.
- `width` (integer, optional) — The background's real pixel size, so the canvas can match the picture instead of cropping it into a fixed box.
- `height` (integer, optional)
- `attribution` (string, optional) — Where a searched template came from. The background is served from there rather than copied, so the credit stays with the row.
- `sourceUrl` (string, optional) — Where the credit links to, an http or https address.

### User

A person in a Taktoria organization.

- `id` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `email` (string, required)
- `image` (string, optional) — Their picture: one uploaded on the account page, or else their Google profile picture, brought in when they sign in with Google.

### ErrorDetail

- `code` (string, required) — A stable machine-readable code such as `not_found`.
- `message` (string, required)
- `details` (any, optional)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "templateId": "templateId",
  "captions": [
    "captions",
    "captions"
  ]
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "id": "id",
  "organizationId": "organizationId",
  "templateId": "templateId",
  "captions": [
    "captions",
    "captions"
  ],
  "score": 1,
  "hasVoted": true,
  "createdAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
  "template": {
    "id": "id",
    "organizationId": "organizationId",
    "name": "name",
    "slug": "slug",
    "layout": "CAPTION",
    "curated": true,
    "archived": true,
    "sortOrder": 1,
    "createdAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
    "updatedAt": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
    "builtinKey": "builtinKey",
    "imageUrl": "imageUrl",
    "width": 1,
    "height": 1,
    "attribution": "attribution",
    "sourceUrl": "sourceUrl"
  },
  "layout": "CAPTION",
  "author": {
    "id": "id",
    "name": "name",
    "email": "email",
    "image": "image"
  },
  "authorId": "authorId"
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/memes"

payload = {
    "templateId": "templateId",
    "captions": ["captions", "captions"]
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/memes';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"templateId":"templateId","captions":["captions","captions"]}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/memes"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"templateId\": \"templateId\",\n  \"captions\": [\n    \"captions\",\n    \"captions\"\n  ]\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/memes")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"templateId\": \"templateId\",\n  \"captions\": [\n    \"captions\",\n    \"captions\"\n  ]\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/memes")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"templateId\": \"templateId\",\n  \"captions\": [\n    \"captions\",\n    \"captions\"\n  ]\n}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/memes', [
  'body' => '{
  "templateId": "templateId",
  "captions": [
    "captions",
    "captions"
  ]
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/memes");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n  \"templateId\": \"templateId\",\n  \"captions\": [\n    \"captions\",\n    \"captions\"\n  ]\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [
  "templateId": "templateId",
  "captions": ["captions", "captions"]
] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.taktoria.com/api/v1/memes")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```