curl in LiveCode

andrew at midwestcoastmedia.com andrew at midwestcoastmedia.com
Mon Feb 17 13:58:19 EST 2020


Thank you Matthias! I figured it was possible and I might be close.  
Hopefully the archive of this thread will be useful for someone in the  
future.

--Andrew Bell

> Subject: Re: curl in LiveCode
> Message-ID: <ED260474-58BE-45C6-B205-7FC7BB0AB6F8 at m-r-d.de>
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>
> Hi again,
> rereading my post i noticed that the Accept...   is also a header.
> So this a modified version of my sample script
>
> -- build header
>
> put  
> "Key:e9242121ffd235b16f06c6e09cfd4373d18aa85d77dab4b858601051d4dd5b914ec298a3a29520ab" into pHeaders -- api  
> key
>
> put return & "Accept:=application/json" after pHeaders -- request JSON
>
> -- now build url with parameters
> put "https://api.abuseipdb.com/api/v2/check" into pURL
>
> put "?ipAddress=172.217.9.174" after pURL -- add ip address
>
> put "&maxAgeInDays=90" after pUrl -- this is just to show how  
> additional parameters are added to the url
>
> put "&verbose" after pURL -- this is just to show how additional  
> parameters are added to the url
>
> -- now get the data
> put tsNetGetSync(pURL, pHeaders, rOutHeaders, rResult, rBytes) into tResult
>
> put rOutHeaders after message -- show the received headers in message box
>
>
> -
> Matthias Rebbe
> Life Is Too Short For Boring Code
>
>> Am 13.02.2020 um 22:45 schrieb matthias rebbe via use-livecode  
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i just did a short test
>>
>> this works so far
>> put  
>> "Key:e9242121ffd235b16f06c6e09cfd4373d18aa85d77dab4b858601051d4dd5b914ec298a3a29520ab" into  
>> pHeaders
>> put  
>> tsNetGetSync("https://api.abuseipdb.com/api/v2/check?ipAddress=172.217.9.174", pHeaders, rOutHeaders, rResult, rBytes) into  
>> tResult
>>
>> tResult contains the same value as  the one returned executing curl  
>> via shell.
>>
>> The only thing i don?t know is where and how to add the  
>> Accept:=application/json
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -
>> Matthias Rebbe
>> Life Is Too Short For Boring Code
>>
>>> Am 13.02.2020 um 22:27 schrieb Andrew Bell via use-livecode  
>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>
>>> An API that I use was sunset on 2020-02-01 so I need to convert my  
>>> previous stack calls from their v1 to v2 format. The original  
>>> method was a simple url post but the updated method uses GET via  
>>> curl. I was able to convert my calls to the new format, and can  
>>> successfully get data when using curl through Terminal, but can't  
>>> figure out how to properly curl in LiveCode.
>>>
>>> There are several old posts (mailing list and forum) that explain  
>>> how to setup httpHeaders then POST or PUT using libURL, but I  
>>> can't seem to find a GET option. Running a shell command works,  
>>> but I'd prefer a method that ports to mobile if possible. I tried  
>>> a couple tsNet commands, but keep getting assorted 4xx response  
>>> codes...
>>> tsNetGet - 422
>>> tsNetCustom - 400
>>> tsNetPost - 405
>>>
>>> Can anyone explain how to issue this curl command through tsNet or  
>>> libURL and read the JSON that is returned?
>>> curl -G --header  
>>> "Key:e9242121ffd235b16f06c6e09cfd4373d18aa85d77dab4b858601051d4dd5b914ec298a3a29520ab" --header Accept:=application/json --data ipAddress=172.217.9.174  
>>> https://api.abuseipdb.com/api/v2/check
>>>
>>> That is a working API key that I'm willing to throw away now that  
>>> is public.
>>> v1 of API is @ https://www.abuseipdb.com/api
>>> v2 of API is @ https://docs.abuseipdb.com/
>>>
>>> --Andrew Bell
>>>
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