Can't get past the 1st API request about api

[azz]

Hi there @lawyerz8! In Windows, curl is actually an alias for Invoke-WebRequest, which has its own syntax for passing headers. You'll want to try something like this:

$creds = 'up:yeah:...'
Invoke-WebRequest 'https://api.up.com.au/api/v1/util/ping' -Headers @{ 'Authorization' = "Bearer $creds" }

You can even try using Invoke-RestMethod, which will give you a nicer output:

$creds = 'up:yeah:...'
Invoke-RestMethod 'https://api.up.com.au/api/v1/util/ping' -Headers @{ 'Authorization' = "Bearer $creds"  }

[deecewan]

also @lawyerz8 - your third screenshot was so close. If you want to go down the curl path, you can:

$headers = @{ "Authorization" = "Bearer up:yeah:...." }
curl "https://api.up.com.au/api/v1/util/ping" -H $headers

But, I agree - Invoke-RestMethod does give a much nicer output 😄

[deecewan]

@lawyerz8 - i might have led you astray there. It seems that in powershell, you can use either ' or " - it doesn't matter. so, all of these work:

curl "https://api.up.com.au/api/v1/util/ping" -H @{ 'Authorization' = 'Bearer up:yeah:....' }
curl 'https://api.up.com.au/api/v1/util/ping' -H @{ "Authorization" = "Bearer up:yeah:...." }
curl 'https://api.up.com.au/api/v1/util/ping' -H @{ 'Authorization' = "Bearer up:yeah:...." }

which is a bit confusing - it's generally recommended to pick one kind and stick with it.

[d11wtq]

@lawyerz8 welcome to programming! So good to hear you're rolling up your sleeves and keen to have a go with this. I don't have a good answer for you right now (I'll try and get one... I'm less familiar with Windows). But what I can say is that you definitely don't need to (and should not) prefix a $ sign to the token.

Imagine your token was: up:yeah:xyz123abc (but much longer in reality), then the correct header to send would be:

Authorization: Bearer up:yeah:xyz123abc

[d11wtq]

Try taking out that backslash before the -H too. The backslash is just an escaping character to handle a single curl command spanning multiple lines, but given you're supplying it all on one line, it shouldn't be needed (I imagine it will not be causing any problems, as it likely just "skips" the following space character, but remove it nevertheless).

[lawyerz8]

Thank you all! You guys are legends. Both queries above work! I'll work my way down the other examples :)

Was very confused about the " as well. Glad to note it is actually part of the query.

Interesting how Invoke-Rest method uses ' but curl/Invoke-WebRequest uses "

[lawyerz8]

Oh man I just discovered Postman https://www.postman.com/downloads/ isn't this so much better than CLI haha...

Now i'll try to write it to a database..?