Thanks Richard,
I just solved it - I didn't have it formatted correctly for LC. In
Terminal I could just enter:
curl -H "Accept: text/xml"
https://API_KEY:api_sec...@www.thewebsite.com/api/v1/data
In LC I had it formatted like this (it compiled):
get shell("curl -H" && "Accept: text/xml" &&
"https://API_KEY:api_sec...@www.thewebsite.com/api/v1/data";)
But it needed to be formatted like this (I neglected to use "quote"):
get shell("curl -H" && quote & "Accept: text/xml" & quote &&
"https://API_KEY:api_sec...@www.thewebsite.com/api/v1/data";)
Marty
Marty Knapp wrote:
I'm trying to call curl from a shell command from within LC to get info
from a website via their API and am getting a "could not resolve host"
error. I can successfully run curl from the terminal (on Mac). This is
totally new territory for me, so I have almost no idea of what I'm
doing! I'm using LC 6.6.5 if that makes any difference.
Here's the curl statement I'm using (formatted per the website's API):
curl -H "Accept: text/xml"
https://API_KEY:api_sec...@www.thewebsite.com/api/v1/data
Works fine in Terminal. Note that it is using https if that matters.
If it works in Terminal I'm mystified; Mark Wieder may have a tip for
that.
Have you tested it with libURL? For HTTP/HTTPS it shouldn't be
necessary to use curl or other outside programs.
FWIW, I did some testing with wget yesterday (not the same as curl,
but often considered a bit lighter), and I found that the overhead of
instantiating the terminal session with shell meant that using libURL
was about 20% faster overall for downloading a 1MB binary data file.
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