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Cassidy
Cassidy

Reputation: 3408

How do you make and use a POST URL?

I'm currently messing with Slack integrations (https://slack.com/integrations), and trying to make one myself. I know that when my command is hit, it will POST something like this to a URL:

 token=whatever
 team_id=12345
 channel_id=ABC123
 channel_name=test
 timestamp=1355517523.000005
 user_id=USER123
 user_name=Steve
 text=googlebot: What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
 trigger_word=googlebot:

I understand how this works conceptually, but I've never actually used POST before.

Let's just say I want to take this data and put it in a Google Spreadsheet or on a web page. What does the POST URL have to actually consist of? Can I just link a static URL to a file I have on GitHub? Do I have to write in something like PHP, or would JavaScript do? How do I actually take in this input?

Thank you so much for your help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 203

Answers (1)

Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott

Reputation: 7923

To make a post, you either need a browser extension, like Postman:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-client/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm?hl=en

Or you could use an HTML form submission

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form_method.asp

or a Javascript AJAX request

http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ajax_get_post.asp

finally, you can do it on the command line, using:

curl -X POST http://example.com/test -d'postdatahere'

Upvotes: 2

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