calling an api from a stack?

[Eric A. Engle]

I am trying to make a call to the yandex translate api for a stack i am working on.
i could do this pretty handily in HTML but I want to do it in livecode.

I tried working with this but using yandex api instead of google

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35957054/is-it-possible-to-create-a-translator-in-livecode-for-my-app-which-translates-an

no joy; this got me no further.

https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?t=14451


thanks for any ideas. yandex api is here 
https://tech.yandex.com/translate/