How to interface with third party API using URLs

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Mark.  So it sounds like I could use the Post command along with
libURLFormData to send off the URL and then check the it variable to get
whatever comes back.

Pete
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> On 11/06/2015 01:52 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> I'm working on a project that requires I learn about using URLs to
>> interface to a third party API.  I have been given php code that does what
>> I need so I could just execute the php scrips from LC and grab the output.
>> But should I ever need to make changes to the php code, I wouldn't know
>> where to start so would prefer to implement this with Livecode.
>>
>> I have all the necessary URLs and they return "a REST-compliant XML feed"
>> .
>> Can someone point me to a lesson of some sort that would point me in the
>> right direction?
>>
>
> For simple REST services you can probably get by with GET and POST. For
> anything more robust I shell out to httpie. And for testing REST functions,
> the Postman plugin/app for Chrome is great.
>
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>  ahsoftware at gmail.com
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