How to send URL Parameters with ThingHTTP?

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How to send URL Parameters with ThingHTTP?

June 17, 2019
3:47 pm

AndreasW

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Hi there!

To send data to an external REST API, I need to create the following URL:

https://somewebsite.com/api.json?key=123&value1=22&valueb=99

whereas actually it should read like

https://somewebsite.com/api.json?key=123&value1=%%channelxxxx_field1%%&valueb=%%channelxxxx_field2%%

Now my question is - how do I do that? When I try to enter the URL as above, ThingHTTP tells me I must enter a valid URL. If I add those as a header parameters, obiously the value are in the header but not in the URL. The same goes for the body.

What am I doing wrong?

This is so obvious and easy, there must be a way surely, right?!

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Andreas

June 19, 2019
8:26 am

cstapels

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I would recommend you use a MATLAB analysis to build the URL, and then webwrite() to trigger the action.
I will look into the replacement keys in the ThingHTTP body, I was also having some trouble with them recently.

June 19, 2019
4:14 pm

AndreasW

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cstapels said

I would recommend you use a MATLAB analysis to build the URL, and then webwrite() to trigger the action.
I will look into the replacement keys in the ThingHTTP body, I was also having some trouble with them recently.

Hi cstapels,

thanks for your reply!

This sounds very complicated to me for such an easy thing 🙂 As a newbie, for me this feature is so obvious, that I could not believe it is not working.

At the moment I found a workaround via IFTTT - I just send the data via json in the body and IFTTT then makes the webhook URL with the parameters in the URL out of the JSON, but obviously in an ideal world this step would be unnecessary.

Thanks
Andreas

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