Buy Me a Coffee | Operate As Docs

Connect your client's Buy Me a Coffee with a key they paste, and call its API through Operate As.

Website: buymeacoffee.com
Connects by: Pasting a Personal access token
Category: Payments
Services: 1
Tools: Pass-through only

Service	Key	Base URL
Buy Me a Coffee	`buy-me-a-coffee`	`https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/api/v1`

Connecting

Your client makes a Personal access token in their Buy Me a Coffee settings and pastes it on their link. Operate As tries it with Buy Me a Coffee before saving it, and stores it encrypted. See Services connected with an API key.

Check they're connected

curl https://api.operate.as/v1/me/clients \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

curl https://api.operate.as/v1/me/clients \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

Response

[
  {
    "id": "6f1c2a7e-...",
    "name": "Miller Dental",
    "services": [
      "buy-me-a-coffee"
    ]
  }
]

[  {    "id": "6f1c2a7e-...",    "name": "Miller Dental",    "services": [      "buy-me-a-coffee"    ]  }]

Permissions

What the client reads	Permission it asks for
Use the Buy Me a Coffee key you paste, with only the access you gave that key	Chosen on the provider's screen

Pass-through

Buy Me a Coffee has no ready-made tools yet. Call any endpoint of its API through Operate As instead, with the client's access attached.

Add the client

In Clients, add your client and select Buy Me a Coffee. Then send them their link.

Your client connects

They paste a Personal access token from their Buy Me a Coffee settings.

Find the endpoint

Pick the call from Buy Me a Coffee's own API docs. Your path is everything after https://developers.buymeacoffee.com/api/v1.

Send it through Operate As

Use the client's ID, the service key buy-me-a-coffee and that path. Your Operate As key goes in Authorization; the client's access is added for you.

See Pass-through requests for the full request and response format.

Call any endpoint

curl "https://api.operate.as/v1/clients/6f1c2a7e-.../buy-me-a-coffee/supporters" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.operate.as/v1/clients/6f1c2a7e-.../buy-me-a-coffee/supporters" \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

Response

{
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "…": "the service's own response"
  },
  "encoding": "json"
}

{  "status": 200,  "data": {    "…": "the service's own response"  },  "encoding": "json"}

When access ends

A key works until your client deletes it in Buy Me a Coffee. They can paste a new one on the same link at any time, and your workflows carry on without changes.

See Keeping access alive and Removing access.

Calls answer, once the key is deleted

{
  "status": 401,
  "data": {
    "…": "the service's own error"
  },
  "encoding": "json"
}

{  "status": 401,  "data": {    "…": "the service's own error"  },  "encoding": "json"}