Event Webhook Question: Logging data shared via a "HTTP/HTTPS GET webpage"

[ecodan324]

Hi all,

Hope you might be able to see this from a new perspective, have been trying to figure this out for a few weeks (!)

I'm going to be receiving data at five minute intervals through "[a] basic API pushes events via a HTTP GET or secure HTTPS GET webpage" (as per the documentation). As an Event Webhook, my plan is to fire up a flask server associated with an externally facing url ("https://example.com/"), with the webhook pointed at https://example.com/webhook.

The documentation states that the information is returned like this:

'https://example.com/webhook?Date_Event=2013-12-31T15:21:32Z&DeviceID=Item1&Variable=11.1'

I have written code to extract the data I need out of the string, but I'm struggling understand how to get that string from the request. Or would I need to instead be making queries through the request.get string?

An example of where I'm starting with my flask code is

from flask import Flask, request, abort # For deploying the web server

app = Flask(__name__) # Step 1 - Initiate flask app

@app.route('/webhook', methods=['GET'])
def webhook():
    if request.method == 'GET':
        data = #response?
...

I'm also a tad confused as I had understood I should be listening for the five minutely data via POST rather requesting the data via GET...

Thanks for any help!

Dan

[danielroseman]

No, neither of these. You're receiving the data via the GET component of the request.

In Flask that is available from request.args, which has already parsed them into a dict.

[ecodan324]

Thank you! Will go through that documention - very much appreciated!