What would be the best way to make a JSON get requests like this?

Questions & Help
1

I have no experience with posting json data via a web get on the homey. What app would be most suitable to make calls like this? Currently I use CURL from the command line for it;

curl
-H “X-Vestaboard-Api-Key: $key”
-H “X-Vestaboard-Api-Secret: $secret”
-d ‘{“text”: “Hello test message”}’ https://platform.vestaboard.com/subscriptions/$subscriptions/message

2

You can use this flow action card:

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I’m nut sure if header field must be set as JSON object like this:
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You have to set the $key and $secret in then flow card field. Or you can use global tags (variables) to fill them dynamically.

3

It should not, you have to add headers as plain text, one per line:

X-Vestaboard-Api-Key: $key
X-Vestaboard-Api-Secret: $secret

And not use “smart quotes” in the body data, just regular ones (")

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4

Hi Robert,
Somehow it’s throwing me a 404. I used the one header per line (i saw you write on this forum about it before).
What do you mean by smart quotes? Single quotes?
This is what I got right now;

Url:
https://platform.vestaboard.com/subscriptions/SUBKEY/message
Headers;

X-Vestaboard-Api-Key: APIKEY
X-Vestaboard-Api-Secret: APISECRET

Body;
{"text": "Hello"}

(cant upload a screenshot for some reason but this is what I copied from the flow).
What am I missing?

Update: did some more testing and I think the problem is the body… when I just request my vestaboards installation information it doesnt need a body and that seems to work.

5

Thanks, Robert.
I just copied the examples above. But yes, standard quotes "..." must be used.

Edit: just inserted standard quotes and the forum software converts to Unicode :expressionless:

6

Make it a POST request.

7

Ah… silly of me… of course…
Works like a charm… thanks!