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ruby-on-railsapirest-client
Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 153

Rails External Api Call

How to call an external api using rest-client gem with api token?

I am doing something like this

RestClient.get('api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=2172797', headers={appid: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'})

But this gives me an unauthorized response. What is the proper name for token header? Open weather api

I can't figure this out.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 699

Answers (2)

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 153

I should put APPID in params hash. So the best solution I found was create ENV variable and use it in my file. Then I can just call.

RestClient.get 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London', {params: {APPID: API_KEY}}

Upvotes: -1

PrimeTimeTran
PrimeTimeTran

Reputation: 2157

Try using string interpolation to put the API_TOKEN into the urlso it looks like this.

http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?id=524901&APPID=1111111111

So:

RestClient.get("api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=2172797&APPID=#{API_TOKEN}")

Upvotes: 2

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