How to connect to an Api with username and application key

rallyestyle

Hello all.

As part of a new project I would like to connect to an external api with a username and application key. I understand how to connect to a simple api and load/get the JSON data but after much searching I can't find details on how to login to an API prior to connecting and retrieving data.

Is this doable from within a processing sketch?

I have the endpoint URL but can't practice extracting the data through processing as I can't apply my credentials that way.

If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Dinoswarleafs

I made this a while back for Wolfram's API. See if you can change it to get it work for you :

import java.net.*;

String Query = "http://" + "api.wolframalpha.com/v2/query?input=derivative+of+x%5E4&appid=#########";
String[] results;

void setup() {
  try {
    URL url = new URL(Query);
    URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
    results = loadStrings(connection.getInputStream());
  }
  catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
  printArray(results);
}

rallyestyle

Many thanks. Will have a play with it and see what happens.