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Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:01 am**

Here is something very "off topic". I am developing a system that will allow schools to download cataloguing data from a site in Australia. The site has introduced an API with examples given as curl commands. I would like to translate the commands into a single line that can be sent via httprequest() in PB. Can't quite work out how to do it.

Examples from the API integration guide:

Heath check:
curl -i -X GET --url https://api-uat.scisdata.com/checkStatus --basic -u testapi2:abc123

Search:
curl -i -X GET --url 'https://apiuat.
scisdata.com/catalogue/api/search?query=titleSearch%3Adogs%20AND%20publicationYear%3A2015&from=0&size
=20&sort=author&order=asc' -H 'Authorization: Basic dGVzdGFwaTI6YWJjMTIz'

Download MARC records:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"identities":["1736952","1692646","1835443"],"fileType":"MARC"}'
https://api-uat.scisdata.com/catalogue/download -H 'Authorization: Basic dGVzdGFwaTI6YWJjMTIz'

Download image:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"identities":["1736952","1692646"]}' https://apiuat.
scisdata.com/catalogue/image/download -H 'Authorization: Basic dGVzdGFwaTI6YWJjMTIz' -o testdownload.zip

I was not able to get curl to work as it kept rejecting the https type but I could make example 1 work in a browser.

These commands include authentication - username (testapi2) and password (abc123). Apart from example 1, the others are base-64 encoded.

Results are returned in JSON format.

If anyone can help, I would be grateful.
Thanks.

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2019 6:00 am**

I was able to work out how to include the username and password in the URL line. Something like https://username:password@site.com.

I have another curl command and could use some help turning it into a Httprequest in PureBasic.

The curl statement is
curl --request POST --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"identities":["1736952","1692646","1835443"],"fileType":"MARC"}' "https://websiet.com/download"

Posted: **Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:45 pm**

It should work like this:

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NewMap Header.s()

Header("Content-Type") = "application/json"

HTTPRequest(#PB_HTTP_Post, "https://websiet.com/download", ~"{\"identities\":[\"1736952\",\"1692646\",\"1835443\"],\"fileType\":\"MARC\"}", 0, Header())

Posted: **Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:34 am**

Thanks Nic.

I did not know a literal string could be prefixed with ~ then \" could be used to insert double-quotes. Very handy.

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