I am trying to make API call to Akamai dataStream source from command line. I have headers client_secret ,host ,access_token ,client_token,base url. Akamai developer doc,https://developer.akamai.com/legacy/introduction/Client_Auth.html does not have good example.
Solid example to make API call to Akamai dataStream source form Linux systems would be highly appreciated.
You can find clients with authentication already implemented on their website
https://developer.akamai.com/legacy/introduction/Open_Source.html
Take a look at egcurl, a curl wrapper handling authentication.
Once configured following instructions on that page, you can call DataStream APIs.
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Is it possible to use a private video link from a cloud provider storage or from Slack (using user token) and upload them to cloudflare steam the same as this sample public link?
Based on Cloudflare documentation, (but this is for a public link)
If you have videos stored in a cloud storage bucket, you can simply pass a HTTP link for the file. Stream will fetch the file and make it available for streaming.
By using webhooks you can receive a notification when the video is ready to be played or if it errors.
Step 1: Make an API call with the link
Make a HTTP request to the Stream API with the URL of the video.
curl -X POST -d '{"url":"https://storage.googleapis.com/zaid-test/Watermarks%20Demo/cf-ad-original.mp4","meta":{"name":"My First Stream Video"}}'
\ -H "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>"
\ https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID>/stream/copy
Ah, seems public is the only way.
Here it said the server must be publicly routable and support HTTP HEAD requests and HTTP GET range requests. The server should respond to HTTP HEAD requests with a content-range header that includes the size of the file.
"https://example.com/myvideo.mp4"
Cloudflare API only accepts a URL for source, and there is no way as far as I see in the linked documentation to send token and access a private file.
Solution is to have a server you own, download from source and upload it to Cloudflare using their file upload API which reads from local directory.
So the answer is no, you can not directly download from a private server and upload to cloudflare. :/
I am trying to test Amazon Connect Rest API in Postman. The API name is GetMetricData. In Postman, I have provided all the required information that is mentioned in the documentation. I have provided the JSON body, URL, and Header, although API is responding 200 OK status but in the response, it is throwing the following errors that you can see in the following screenshots.
I have set AWS signature with proper credentials such as access key and secret key
In the second error it is suggesting me to enable Javascript in the browser which is already enabled in my browser.
Can someone please help me here, I don't know where I am doing wrong. As I am totally new in this field, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
You are submitting the POST request to the UI distribution endpoint for your Amazon Connect instance, not an API endpoint. You are getting HTML and javascript response body back from the UI distribution because this is meant to be consumed by a browser.
Your API request should be sent to a URL that looks like https://connect.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/metrics/historical/<instanceId>. In this example, my Amazon Connect instance is located in the us-west-2 region so I'm using the connect.us-west-2.amazonaws.com endpoint. You can find all available Amazon Connect API endpoints in the documentation here
I use Nextcloud as a normal user to store and share files.
I decided to use it as a backend for a web application I am developing so that I can store the files in Nextcloud while the frontend is done by me.
I spent some hours on the API docs
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/developer_manual/client_apis/WebDAV/index.html
and, with some disappointment, unless I have not made a mistake, I realized that the only API that can be used from outside Nextcloud is the WebDav API.
This is a minimalistic API that allows doing basic things such as uploading a file by passing the full path like with this GET statement (authenticated by basic auth passing username and password in the headers:
GET https://nextcloud.example.com/remote.php/dav/files/username/FolderOne/SubFolderTwo/HelloWorld.txt
This will download the file located in /FolderOne/SubFolderTwo/HelloWorld.txt
with a PUT request, it is possible to overwrite the file by passing the file content in the raw body request
This is very effective but minimalistic.
I was expecting to have a full REST API to access more properties and perform complex operations.
Could you please tell me if I missed some important information?
There is the OCS API but it works only from inside Nextcloud.
Thanks.
A full REST API is avaiable - https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/22/developer_manual/client_apis/OCS/ocs-api-overview.html
Create a Share - https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/developer_manual/client_apis/OCS/ocs-share-api.html
The OwnCloud documentation also offers more examples
https://doc.owncloud.com/server/10.8/developer_manual/core/apis/ocs-share-api.html
You can register an App id and use that to login or passthru a username and password in the authentication header.
I am trying to excute IBM BPM Rest api call from Post man client
Ex:
https://ustrial01.bpm.ibmcloud.com/bpm/dev/rest/bpm/wle/v1/user/current?includeInternalMemberships=true&parts=all
I set Basic Authentication values( Username, password)
I am getting status code as 200, but response i am getting some HTML code.
Can any one help me on this.Any help is greatly arreciated.
If you are getting a 200 status then why do you need the response? the status code should be good enough for you because 200 means the REST call worked fine.
I'm not familiar with the product you're referring to, but it sounds like you need to specify the media type you want to get back in an Accept header of your request. I suggest you try specifying
Accept: application/json
or (being an IBM product I'm guessing XML might be preferred)
Accept: application/xml
I tried to access BPM REST api call using Chrome's Postman & REST Console plugins.
Based on my experience, sometimes I don't no why it looks like Postman will not take auth details.
But, below steps always worked for me:
1. login to BPM account in Chrome,
2. open REST Console plugin and can access REST api GET/PUT all the time.
Hope this helps. Thanks
There are two parts to this answer, the 'long story short' part and the elaborate part.
Long Story Short:
IBM BPM Cloud exposes a variety of REST APIs to interact with its BPM engine and let it be as a service or more commonly known as 'Headless BPM' or 'BPM-as-a-Service'.
These REST API calls are secured by basic authentication i.e. by username/password
For Cloud, the username and password used for the REST API is not the same as the User's credential, which the User will use for logging into IBM BPM Process Portal or website. For on-prem solution, it is the same.
For Cloud, a 'functional' username password has to be requested for (Cloud Admin can create those) and that has to be used in the service call.
For example, if you are username/password for logging into BPM Cloud is 'johndoe#gmail.com/Test123' then there will be functional credential created for this ID (say, 'somefunctionalusernamedjohn123/8jdklajl23').
We can use this credential with every reqeust but what we should do is, use these credentials in the very 1st call to BPM server, in the response of which there will be a specific 'cookie'. We should save it and re-use that in our sub-sequent calls until it expires (you'll receive appropriate http status code if you disable 'follow redirect' in your http client config).
I had to raise a PMR to get this information. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFPJS_8.6.0/com.ibm.wbpm.wle.editor.doc/topics/int_ext_services_start_process.html
Sample Java code to start a process:
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url("https://ustrial03.bpm.ibmcloud.com:443/bpm/dev/rest/bpm/wle/v1/process?
processAppId=3u092jr02j-fghjkyk.u078992c166c1&bpdId=25.jk8989-539a-4150-
b63e-ggui67868gjkgj7&action=start")
.put(null)
.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
.addHeader("Accept", "application/json")
.addHeader("Connection", "keep-alive")
.addHeader("Authorization", "Basic YXJrYX242232jklkljljLmNvbTpkZWZjb240QA==")
.addHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache")
.addHeader("Postman-Token", "f46c1525-899-9897-uoh89-bb2b21a57f16")
.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
Before finding this solution through PMR, I was desperately looking for a solution or a workaround. I noticed that my REST calls are getting redirected to an authentication page and I also noticed that, it is quite similar to what happens when you try logging into any IBM BPM Process Portal.
Once you login to IBM BPM Portal using Chrome, observe that it doesn't log you out. So I guessed the answer to be in the cookie and through trial and error, I picked up the cookie, which is PD-S-SESSIONID (named Something like that), and started using them in my service but obviously they expire in like 30-40 mins. So, I went ahead and used selenium and headless chrome to do the same thing as what I did manually. Anyway, this hack shouldn't be needed for On-Prem solution or with functional IDs for cloud.
Another very useful API wrapper which I have used in my project is:
https://github.com/egetman/ibm-bpm-rest-client. I had to make some changes to make this work with the trial account and for some other reasons.
And of course, we can't go far without the help of in-built REST API tester by IBM
e.g. https://ustrial03.bpm.ibmcloud.com/bpm/dev/bpmrest-ui/BPMRestAPITester/index.jsp
Thanks!
I just wonder if it's possible to access a .htaccess protected directory through a server-side API? Browsers can handle the authentication well but how to do that through API?
Many thanks.
The answer is yes, as long as your web api provides a mechanism for you to enter the credentials to satisfy the HTTP Basic Authentication check.
For example if you are using apache httpclient in java you can use a block like the following to enter the credentials.
CredentialsProvider oCredProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
AuthScope oAuthScope = new AuthScope(m_sServer, AuthScope.ANY_PORT, AuthScope.ANY_REALM);
UsernamePasswordCredentials oCreds = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(sUsername, sPassword);
oCredProvider.setCredentials(oAuthScope, oCreds);
httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(oAuthScope, oCreds);
Without knowing which web api you are using, it is difficult to answer.
I would suggest you do a simple search, for example if you are trying to perform HTTP BAsic Authentication within the context of AJAX and javascript, just google
"AJAX javascript HTTP Basic Authentication", and you will probably find a more relevant example for your specific situation.