Prototype for posting to multiple BufferApp profile ids

buffer_multi_profile.py

"""because the instructions were not clear to me, if I missed 
something or this does not work drop a comment and I will fix.
After figuring this out I just wanted to put the solution 
somewhere. Code pulled from working project."""

from __future__ import print_function
import os, urllib, url

buffer_base_url = 'https://api.bufferapp.com'

data = {
    'text':message,
    'client_id':'YOUR CLIENT ID',
    'client_secret':'YOUR CLIENT SECRET',
    # next 2 lines is the voodoo
    'profile_ids[0]':'BUFFER PROFILE ID A', # a hash
    'profile_ids[1]':'BUFFER PROFILE ID B', # a hash
    # other stuff can go here optionally
}

url = buffer_base_url+'/1/updates/create.json?access_token=%s' \
    % ACCESS_TOKEN # note: create is a post

encoded_args = urllib.urlencode(data)

try:
    print (urllib2.urlopen(url, encoded_args).read())
except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
    print( e.code)
    print (e.read())
    exit()