Json request an parse help

#1

Is there a place that has examples and instructions on how to do Json requests to a url, and then parse the responses?

I just can’t wrap my head around it.

#2

Sorry for the screenshot but I’m using the iPad today and couldn’t save this from WebCore. I simply build the api_url as a variable (this one has two flavors a test sandbox and the real thing), then do a get request using the url. $response will give you the whole JSON response which I had to reverse engineer for this API because the vendor docs were out of date.

Please pardon the messy code I am still playing around.

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#3

Thanks. I will play with this and ask questions based on what I find. Just getting started on this stuff

#4

I have been able to make the request to weather underground and able to set the response to a variable. Now how do I parse out the info that was responded. Here is what the response gave me. What I am trying to do is basically pulling weather info from a location other than my home hub location.

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#5

Anybody with any ideas?

#6

Sorry, haven’t had a chance to look at this yet. Although if you tear through a couple of the example pistons that will help.

#7

Can you show your get?

#8

Sure here is all I have got so far. Blacked out is my api key

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#9

Ok.

Still a little unclear on what you want to do next. However if what you want is a specific value from that JSON $response you refer to it by name. For example $response.features.forecast[0] should return a value of 1.

Each “word” followed by a colon is a label for a field. Brackets indicate an array.

If you take your url and paste it into a browser you should get a formatted version of the JSON output. That may help you better understand the structure.

Hope this helps.

#10

Oddly enough it may be $response.response.features.forecast[0]

Here is a partial formatted response for current conditions from their website.

{
“response”: {
“version”: “0.1”,
“termsofService”: “http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/terms.html”,
“features”: {
“conditions”: 1
}
},
“current_observation”: {
“image”: {
“url”: “http://icons-ak.wxug.com/graphics/wu2/logo_130x80.png”,
“title”: “Weather Underground”,
“link”: “http://www.wunderground.com”
},
“display_location”: {
“full”: “San Francisco, CA”,
“city”: “San Francisco”,
“state”: “CA”,
“state_name”: “California”,
“country”: “US”,
“country_iso3166”: “US”,
“zip”: “94101”,

#11

Thanks for the help thus far. Will play with after work. What I am trying to do is get weather info for different cities other than my hub location. This way I could get New York weather, hub location weather, or Los Angeles weather depending on the api call. If I use the $weather function, it is based on what location my hub is set up too.

#12

Thank you! What I needed was $ response.current_conditions.wind_string and it gives me what I need. Thanks again