create_buy_request
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Post a public buy request — an ad asking suppliers to reach out.
Use when the user wants others to know they're looking to buy
something. **Independent of personal inventory** — inventory is the
user's private workshop tracking; a buy request is a sales-facing
ad on the public demand feed at /wanted.
Authenticated. Required OAuth scope: `inventory:write`.
**Not idempotent** — each call creates a new public post.
Args:
name: Short scannable headline ("Looking for X"). Required.
description: Plain text long-form — specs, constraints, delivery
preference. The supplier reads this to decide whether they
can fulfil.
quantity: How many units the poster wants. Default 1.
max_price: Optional ceiling per unit.
currency: Currency for max_price (default €).
contact: Free-form contact (email/phone/Telegram/etc.) shown
publicly. Optional. Without it, suppliers can only respond
via whatever channels you separately make available.
reference_url: Link to a sample/datasheet/manufacturer page.
product_id: Link to a canonical Partle product if asking for a
specific known SKU.
api_key: Optional API key (pk_*, generate at /account).
Used when there is no OAuth token, and also when the OAuth
token lacks the required scope — an explicitly passed key
overrides an ambient token that is scoped too narrowly.
An invalid or revoked token still fails regardless.
Returns:
The newly-created buy request, or `{"error": ...}`.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | any | no | |
| description | any | no | |
| quantity | integer | no | |
| max_price | any | no | |
| currency | any | no | |
| contact | any | no | |
| reference_url | any | no | |
| product_id | any | no | |
| api_key | any | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"name": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Name"
},
"description": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Description"
},
"quantity": {
"default": 1,
"title": "Quantity",
"type": "integer"
},
"max_price": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "number"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Max Price"
},
"currency": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": "€",
"title": "Currency"
},
"contact": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Contact"
},
"reference_url": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Reference Url"
},
"product_id": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "integer"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Product Id"
},
"api_key": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Api Key"
}
},
"title": "create_buy_requestArguments",
"type": "object"
}