request

perform HTTP request to url with given data and get response

Parameters

request url :string
        data :null :string :dictionary

Attributes

getperform a GET request (default)
postperform a POST request
patchperform a PATCH request
putperform a PUT request
deleteperform a DELETE request
jsonsend data as Json
headers:dictionarysend custom HTTP headers
agent:stringuse given user agent
timeout:integerset a timeout
proxy:stringuse given proxy url
certificate:stringuse SSL certificate at given path
rawreturn raw response without processing

Returns

  • :null
  • :dictionary

Examples

copy
print request "https://httpbin.org/get" #[some:"arg" another: 123]
; [version:1.1 body:{
;     "args": {
;          "another": "123", 
;          "some": "arg"
;     }, 
;     "headers": {
;          "Content-Length": "0", 
;          "Host": "httpbin.org", 
;          "User-Agent": "Arturo HTTP Client / 0.9.75", 
;          "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-608fd4b2-6b8a34291cc2fbd17a678b0f"
;     }, 
;     "origin": "92.59.209.80", 
;     "url": "https://httpbin.org/get?some=arg&another=123"
; } headers:[server:gunicorn/19.9.0 content-length:341 access-control-allow-credentials:true content-type:application/json date:2021-05-03T10:47:14+02:00 access-control-allow-origin:* connection:keep-alive] status:200]

copy
r: request "https://httpbin.org/get" #[some:"arg" another: 123]
body: read.json r\body
inspect body\headers
; [ :dictionary
;       Content-Length   :    0 :string
;       Host             :    httpbin.org :string
;       User-Agent       :    Arturo HTTP Client / 0.9.75 :string
;       X-Amzn-Trace-Id  :    Root=1-608fd5f3-7e47203117863c111a3aef3b :string
; ]

copy
print (request "https://httpbin.org/get" #[]) \ 'status
; 200

copy
print request.post "https://httpbin.org/post" #[some:"arg" another: 123]
; ...same as above...

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