So this is a really stupid problem, I'm trying to follow this tutorial: https://gist.github.com/caspyin/2288960
but it just doesn't DO anything when I type:
curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin
No error (if curl isn't in the directory i'm in, I do get an error) but it doesn't noticably return anything.
curl https://api.github.com/zen
Also doesn't return the little zen saying.
These apis work fine in the browser but I want to be able to run more complex post scripts so I can create issues... and I'm just struggling to get started here. What am I doing wrong?
The problem ended up being that they've changed and now require authentication in almost every instance. I solved this problem by requesting a private github key to use for authentication purposes and then played with the headers until I got what I needed.
try:
curl https://api.github.com/zen -k --proxy https://your_proxy_host:443 --proxy-user your_username:your_password
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This is the weirdest experience I had so far. I made a hook that uses an endpoint that would work with react-query. Our company has our own SDK that wraps up all APIs and the format of our hooks would normally look the same.
Problem is, It does not work with my simulator/flipper. I even logged the response but comes undefined. I tried stripping all the stuff like react-query and instead used the SDK directly which is a wrapper for Axios.
Here are other observations:
The request is sent but never responds like giving an error or resolving with a value.
If you get the context menu and try to copy the cURL and use it in the terminal it works.
Copying the cURL to postman will work as well.
Tried deleting the build cache, and yarn cache, and cleaning up all the build folders and still gets the same result.
I have a PHP application which, unfortunately, already uses the 1.1.4 version of the Google Client API, and I am unable to change that, which makes the 2.X version of the Google PHP Sheets API unavailable to me.
However, I'm hoping to be able to use the Google Sheets REST API directly, making my own curl calls (using Guzzle if that's at all interesting).
I'm brand new to the Google API and I've been all over their documentation, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do some basic things.
For the purposes of this question I want to simply create a new Google spreadsheet via the API, from a tool like POSTman.
I get that I first have to obtain an OAuth2 token via https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets. The problem is that I can't quite figure out what to pass this call. I'm assuming it requires a GET since POST returns an error saying that method is unavailable.
Once I get that token, how do I use it when I POST to https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets
Can someone provide a very basic example of the calls I might make directly to simply create a very basic default spreadsheet?
Or am I thinking about this all wrong? All help is appreciated.
If you already have an OAuth2 access token, you can pass it in the "Authorization" header:
curl -L -d '{}' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <INSERT ACCESS TOKEN HERE>" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets
I just verified that curl command creates a new sheet.
Unfortunately as you already indicated, that's probably the simple part, and Getting an OAuth2 access token is more challenging.
Here's a (relatively painful, unfortunately) approach I use sometimes:
You should first create your own project in the API Console or Cloud Platform console, and configure it for your own OAuth2 client id and client secret.
Next, for just playing around, from the Google OAuth2 Developer Playground at https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/, set your Client Id and Client Secret under the "OAuth 2.0 configuration" (it's the Settings icon - the little gear in the top right). The places to enter those will be hidden until you check "Use your own OAuth credentials". You can then get an access token, with the scopes https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets and https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive, by following the steps on the left.
For more playing around, you could then construct the POST right in step 3, or use the access token from Step 2 in the curl command above.
Best of luck - it's tricky stuff to get the auth parts right. There are lots of moving parts, and I'm just illustrating the high points here.
Tragedy about the library issue -- the PHP Quick Start appears to deal with the auth relatively cleanly.
Tim
Here's the official spreadsheets.create reference. Here's a list of Sheets API Samples. I would suggest that you leave the current version you're using and play with the PHP Quickstarts just so you can have a grasp of how it works.
This is going to be less than satisfying, but after fighting with it a while I looked to see if I could go against the premise of my question: That I couldn't upgrade to the latest Google Sheets PHP API.
As it turns out there was a way. That made all of this a lot easier.
Google's documentation is frustratingly incomplete, but I managed to get it all working anyway. Both of you gave me key pointers. Thanks for your help.
I tried call this command
curl -l -u "my_user_name" https://my-enterprise-github.com
Then, I input my password manually.
But it returns this
<html><body>You are being redirected.</body></html>
Please explain what's wrong with my command.
Thank you.
cURL should not be used for access to GitHub's (or most web) UI without specific reasons. GitHub provides an API to allow accessing data as a well-defined structure.
You mentioned wanting to get-a-single-pull-request. This relies on a URL pattern following GET /repos/:owner/:repo/pulls/:number.
So if you had a GitHub account, facebook, and wanted to look up a specific pull request 15947 in react-native. The full URL would be
https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/pulls/15947
The cURL command would be
curl -u osowskit -X GET https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react-native/pulls/15947
Note that:
You will likely want to start using a PAT or OAuth token instead of username/password
There are tools that make exploring the GitHub API easier. postman or octokit
To start with you may want the -L flag. From the cURL Frequently Asked Questions
3.8 How do I tell curl to follow HTTP redirects?
Curl does not follow so-called redirects by default. The Location: header that informs the client about this is only interpreted if you're using the -L/--location option. As in:
curl -L http://redirector.com
Not all redirects are HTTP ones, see 4.14
There's also a CLI now that can be helpful for many similar use-cases:
https://cli.github.com/
$ gh pr list
Showing 2 of 2 open pull requests in Roblox/service-comms-nomad
#16 chi1 Traefik 1.7 GLB jobs chi1-glb-prep
#6 Cgt/t2 cgt/t2
I want to get the simple api integration from https://import.io via curl. I created a magic api and struggle now to get the data.
Do I use the magic api on the browser, it works fine. But with curl I get a {"code":"NOT_AUTHORIZED"}. Obvious that the authentication did not work.
Here's my code
#!/bin/bash
login=foo#bar.com
pass=foobar
userid=foo-bar
apikey=1f2o3o4b5a6r
curl --user $login:$pass https://api.import.io/store/data/033fbe66-13b7-4cf2-ba9c-58183a567a6f/_query?input/webpage/url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zalando.de%2Flp-ons-wom-sale-cat-v1%2F%3Forder%3Dsale&_user=$userid&_apikey=$apikey
What am I doing wrong? And how do I get it run with curl?
I could get it running. Found https://github.com/import-io/bashtractor/blob/master/bashtractor.sh which solved my problem.
I am trying to use the Confluence REST API to create a page. I am using the curl example off of the documentation found HERE. Every time I try to run a terminal command using this curl I get a response that says 'HTTP Status 401 - Basic Authentication Failure - Reason : AUTHENTICATION_DENIED'. I see that someone else had a similar issue regarding their C# code, but there was never a resolution given. Hopefully someone with experience will be able to tell me what I am doing wrong. My curl is listed below with the sensitive parts replaced in <> format.
curl -u <USER>:<PASSWORD> -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{"type":"page","title":"new page","space":{"key":"<PAGEKEY>"},"body":{"storage":{"value":"<p>This is a new page</p>","representation":"storage"}}}' https://<SERVER>/wiki/confluence/rest/api/content/ | python -mjson.tool
I was finally able to resolve this. Through a combination of the answer here How to create new page in Confluence using their REST API? and using a login that had the appropriate permissions.