Making RESTful calls from Robots

calling an API (GET) using apikey authentication

var lib = require('./libs/helpers');
function main(text, auth){

/* BASIC GET API call */

var getUrl = 'https://api.your.com/v1/object';
var getHeaders = {};

getHeaders['authType'] = 'API';

print(getUrl);

var getResponse = lib.get(getUrl, getHeaders);
print(JSON.stringify(getResponse));
}

calling an API (GET) using a BASIC authentication

var lib = require('./libs/helpers');
function main(text, auth){

/* BASIC GET API call */

var getUrl = 'https://api.your.com/v1/object';
var getHeaders = {};

getHeaders['authType'] = 'BASIC';
getHeaders['username'] = msg.basicUsername;
getHeaders['password'] = msg.basicPassword;

print(getUrl);

var getResponse = lib.get(getUrl, getHeaders);
print(JSON.stringify(getResponse));
}

calling an API (POST/GET) using an OAUTH2 authentication

var lib = require('./libs/helpers');
function main(text, auth){

var share = lib.parseMsg(text);

/* OAUTH2 POST API call */

var postUrl = 'https://api.your.com/v1/object';
var postHeaders = {};

postHeaders['authType'] = 'OAUTH2';
postHeaders['token'] = msg.oauthToken;
postHeaders['contentType'] = 'application/json';

// Body from JSON String
var body1 = '{\"test\":\"data\"}';

// Body from triggering share
var body2 = JSON.stringify(share.objs[0].data);

var postResponse = lib.post(postUrl, postHeaders, JSON.parse(body2));
print(JSON.stringify(postResponse));

/* OAUTH2 GET API call */

var getUrl = 'https://api.your.com/v1/object';
var getHeaders = {};

getHeaders['authType'] = 'OAUTH2';
getHeaders['token'] = msg.oauthToken;

var getResponse = lib.get(getUrl, getHeaders);
print(JSON.stringify(getResponse));

}

calling an API (GET) using a CUSTOM authentication

var lib = require('./libs/helpers');

function main(text, auth) {

var getUrl = 'https://api.your.com/v1/object';
var getHeaders = {};

getHeaders.authType = 'CUSTOM';
getHeaders.headerName = 'X-API-Key';
getHeaders.headerValue = '12345678900998877665544332211';

var getResponse = lib.get(getUrl, getHeaders);
print(JSON.stringify(getResponse));
}

 

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