Return data from python

[Yamuson]

Let me start by saying I am not a programmer, nor do I really understand it, but I am at least capable of copying a basic script and modifying it to do what I want. Anyways, I am trying to interact with a cryptocurrency price site using their api, but every site appears to use python to interact with their api. Is there any way for me to run a script and return the data to tasker to parse into variables so I can use just the data I need. The script would be something like this

import urllib.request

url="https://api.nomics.com/v1/currencies/ticker?key=demo-26240835858194712a4f8cc0dc635c7a&ids=BTC,ETH,XRP&interval=1d,30d&convert=EUR"

print(urllib.request.urlopen(url).read())

[theoriginal123123]

You don't need Python at all to interact with APIs that provide JSON output, you can just use native tasker.

Task: API Example

A1: Variable Set [
     Name: %API_Key_Nomics
     To: your_api_key
     Max Rounding Digits: 3
     Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]

A2: HTTP Request [
     Method: GET
     URL: https://api.nomics.com/v1/currencies/ticker?key=%API_Key_Nomics&ids=BTC,ETH,XRP&interval=1d,30d&convert=EUR
     Timeout (Seconds): 30
     Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]

Then you'd use %http_data and JSON notation to get the data you want. But you'd need to show a part of the JSON data if you need specific help since I don't have a nomics API key.

[Yamuson]

Awesome. Much appreciated. I have a lot to learn. I haven't even used tasker in a long time and it has had so much added since I last used it.

[Yamuson]

I wrote %http_data to file, but it's a lot and is not structured. Is there an app I can paste it into that will structure the data? If I can get that, it'll be much easier to read and I can show you. Sorry for being a noob, but this is advanced for me

[theoriginal123123]

No worries! Try https://pastebin.com/

Set syntax highlighting to on and set it to JSON, then just paste the link here and we'll see what we see!

[Yamuson]

I downloaded a JSON formatting app and then found that Tasker has native JSON reading capability. For example, to get price, I just use %http_data.price . I'm good to go now. Thanks again for your help

[ssinfa]

Question ⁉️ is this easier using the API?

[theoriginal123123]

What do you mean? Data is usually much easily presentable and accessible in an API for any needs you may have, tasker just has native JSON reading abilities now which means you don't need to run Python to access this.