After Socrata updated its API from version 1.0 to 2.0, I am not able to POST requests. I changed the URL format that is mentioned on the dev.socrata.com. I can get and see the data through a web browser but I can't through my application. Is there anything else I need to change in my POST requests for SODA API 2.0?
With SODA 2.0, there's no longer a need to POST to perform a query. All queries are now performed through HTTP GET requests.
Here's a quick getting started document that may help:
http://beta.dev.socrata.com/consumers/getting-started/
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PowerBI POST request? How can I pull data into PowerBI using a POST query?
Tried to use common connectors in PowerBI but nothing suitable.
Sample code given by Pardot:
POST https://pi.pardot.com/api//version/3/do/// HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Pardot api_key=, user_key=
The challenge here will be authenticating and then processing data. Pardot's API isn't really REST, so you will have some additional challenges.
You can POST the authentication request, store the 60min valid token, and then GET and parse the paginated responses.
It will require some manual work on your end to tie in the various pieces that you are looking for, but it is possible (assuming the data you want is exposed by the API).
I am trying to get started with REST API calls by seeing how to format the API calls using a browser. Most examples I have found online use SDKs or just return all fields for a request.
For example, I am trying to use the Soundcloud API to view track information.
To start, I've made a simple request in the browser as follows http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/13158665.json?client_id=31a9f4a3314c219bd5c79393a8a569ec which returns a bunch of info about the track in JSON format
(e.g. {"kind":"track","id":13158665,"created_at":"2011/04/06 15:37:43 ...})
Is it possible to only to get returned the "created_at" value using the browser? I apologize if this question is basic, but I don't know what keywords to search online. Links to basic guides would be nice, although I would prefer to stay out of using a specific SDK for the time being.
In fact, it's really hard to answer such question since it depends on the Web APIs. I mean if the API supports to return only a subset of fields, you could but if not, you will receive all the content. From what I saw on the documentation, it's not possible. The filters only allow you to get a subset of elements and not control the list of returned fields within elements.
Notice that you have a great application to execute HTTP requests (and also REST) in Chrome: Postman. This allows to execute all HTTP methods and not only GET ones and controls the headers and sent content and also see what is received back.
If you use Firefox, Firebug provides a similar thing.
To finish, you could have a look at this link to find out hints about the way Web APIs work and are designed: https://templth.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/designing-a-web-api/.
Hope it helps you and I answered you question,
Thierry
Straight from the browser bar you can utilize REST endpoints that respond to a GET message. That is what you are doing when you hit that URI, you are sending an HTTP GET message to that server and it is sending back a JSON.
You are not always guaranteed a JSON, or anything when hitting a known REST endpoint. What each endpoint returns when hit with a GET is specific to how it was built. In that case, it is built to return a JSON, but some may return an HTML page. In my personal experience, most endpoints that utilize JSON returns expect you to process that object in a computer fashion and don't give you a lot of options to get a specific field of the JSON. Here is a good link on how to process JSON utilizing JavaScript.
You can utilize REST clients (such as the Advanced REST Client for Chrome) to craft HTTP POST and PUT if a specific REST endpoint has the functionality built in to receive data and do something with it. For example, a lot of wiki style REST endpoints will allow you to create a page with a specifically crafted HTTP POST with either specific header information, URI parameters or a JSON as part of it.
you can install DHC client app in your chrome and send request like put or get
I am trying to make twitter api requests in my browser (I wan to look at the JSON before writing code to parse it in my android app) but every request is returning:
{"errors":[{"message":"Bad Authentication data","code":215}]}
So how do I properly authenticate the request?
I've been using OAuth.io for a while to do proper authenticated requests: they specifically have a feature called Request API or something like that: check their Documentation this might help you I hope.
I have written a mosync application that interacts with a REST we service. I am using the AMDownload package. Wat is the right way to send the json payload required by the REST API?
The HTTP 400 Bad Request perhaps happens because the MoSync Android runtime messes up the URL, causing the server to return this error. Alternatively, perhaps the MoSync Android runtime considers the URL to be wrong, and sends back the HTTP 400 Bad Request.
Is it possible for you to test on an Android device? To see if the result is the same.
Also, is it possible to find the exact URL/data sent to the server? Perhaps using some network monitor software. If you have access to the server, can you see the request it receives? If you would enter the same request in a client like the Firefox RESTClient, do you get the same response?
I need to be able to consume some JSON data in a POST request from another web app. I have tried looking at the various methods on the Request class, but nothing seems to give me the JSON I need.
Using Request.Form will not work, since it is not coming from a form, but another web app. The content type is application/json, and from examining the whole HTTP request, I know the JSON is in there. What is the best way to get at this JSON data?
Note: I am working from within an action on a controller.
I think you can get your JSON from your model parameter inside the Action of the Controller. Check out this article that explains a bit of what I mean.
You can also read this one for reference
Since you are consuming data from another web app I would use a REST web service instead of a controller in an MVC application. You cans use the ASP.NET Web API which makes it easy to setup a REST web API and it is tightly integrated in with MVC 4, which is now in Beta. If the communication is cross domain (i.e. different servers and/or ports) you will need to use JSONP. You can go to this StackOverflow QA for directions on how to use JSONP with Web API.