Need help creating a web api

Dolphin_Reader · August 8, 2023, 2:57pm

Is there a way in which you can create an api with MIT which scans data from a website which needs a login. I currently do not have an api code to path to the website.

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TIMAI2 · August 8, 2023, 3:00pm

Please provide more information and details about what you want to achieve. A partial screenshot of a web page is not much to go on.....

Dolphin_Reader · August 8, 2023, 3:23pm

So what im trying to achieve is an api which pulls data from an IOT Gecko Page which requires a login.
I need an api which can scan and make a switch which I can turn on for the motor status, and in a seperate page, a way so that I can see what Soil Moisture Percentage it shows in a seperate page.

TIMAI2 · August 8, 2023, 3:28pm

If I understand correctly:

You need to login to the web page
Be able to turn a switch on and off on the web page
Get the data associated with Soil Moisture percentage

do all of this programmatically.

Given it is an IOT device, is this your/your company's device and is it generating the web page?

Does iotgecko not have an api ? seems it does...

Dolphin_Reader · August 8, 2023, 8:53pm

That API is for a specific project. I would have to create a new project to be able to use that API, but I cannot do that as my hardware for this project only connects to one IOT page. I also tried to contact support to help on this, however the support system is currently down.

Dolphin_Reader · August 8, 2023, 9:20pm

How do I do define this

I need help with some code in MIT app inventor. I created an api key to extract the data but now I need to streamline what the API extracts.

Current Code:

What I Need to Streamline:

(The Small Circle Is the Data I Need to Extract)

ABG · August 8, 2023, 9:56pm

Show us the raw responseContent.

Dolphin_Reader · August 12, 2023, 12:08am

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ABG · August 12, 2023, 2:41am

It's all banana peel, no banana,

TIMAI2 · August 12, 2023, 1:32pm

This

doesn't look correct. Is the id really your email address joined to the apiKey with no spaces.

What parameter key is required for the apiKey?

Also, iotgecko do not expose their api documentation publicly, making it difficult to advise on what you actually need to do....

Dolphin_Reader · August 13, 2023, 6:14pm

Oh, Is that why it show's this error whenever I try to test it.

Dolphin_Reader · August 19, 2023, 4:27pm

Is there a way to create an API using python to layer over a website which needs a login?

I need help creating an api to extract data from Iot gecko page which requires a login to do. I also need it to extract only the data in red and then put it in an mit app inventor page. Is there anyway to do this with python, and can someone help me do it?

TIMAI2 · August 19, 2023, 4:41pm

Have your tried this?

Dolphin_Reader · August 19, 2023, 4:51pm

What exactly does this do, could you elaborate.

TIMAI2 · August 19, 2023, 4:53pm

It returns the content of the rendered web page (not the underlying source code you would see with view-source). From that, you should be able extract your value.

Dolphin_Reader · August 19, 2023, 4:54pm

oh ok, thank you very much