Looking at the documentation for curl, it says: -d/--data <data> (HTTP) Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server, in the same way that a browser does when a user has filled in an HTML form and presses the submit button. This will cause curl to pass the data to the server using the content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F/--form.
-d/--data is the same as --data-ascii. To post data purely binary, you should instead use the --data-binary option. To URL-encode the value of a form field you may use --data-urlencode. If any of these options is used more than once on the same command line, the data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating &-symbol. Thus, using ’-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy’ would generate a post chunk that looks like ’name=daniel&skill=lousy’. If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin. The con- tents of the file must already be URL-encoded. Multiple files can also be specified. Posting data from a file named ’foobar’ would thus be done with --data @foobar. This means that the content-type header must be application/x-www-form-urlencoded and the parameters token, sync_token, and resource_types must be should be in the request body. The documentation for LWP::UserAgent says: $ua->post( $url, \%form ) This method will use the POST() function from HTTP::Request::Common to build the request. See HTTP::Request::Common <http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?HTTP%3A%3ARequest%3A%3ACommon> for a details on how to pass form content and other advanced features. POST $url, $form_ref, Header => Value,... The $form_ref argument can be used to pass key/value pairs for the form content. By default we will initialize a request using the application/x-www-form-urlencodedcontent type. So, the following should be identical to what the curl command does: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use LWP::UserAgent; use warnings; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->post("https://todoist.com/API/v7/sync";, { token => "yourtokengoeshere", sync_token => "*", resource_types => '["projects"]', }); die $ua->status_line unless $ua->is_success; print $ua->decoded_content; On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:03 PM <derr...@thecopes.me> wrote: > > > > > I would like to get some info from my todoist account with a perl script. > > The website provides an example using python and bash. > > curl https://todoist.com/API/v7/sync -d token=yourtokengoeshere > -d sync_token='*' -d resource_types='["projects"]' > > > > The curl command works but I would like to use perl and make a todo list > script that will sync with todoist. There is a cpan module but it doesn't > work. > > > > How would I use perl to get the info? I have this > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > > use warnings; > > use LWP::UserAgent; > > > > my $url = 'https://todoist.com/API/v7/sync'; > > my $token = 'mytoken'; > > my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent(); > > my $response = $ua->post($url, token => $token); > > > > I have no idea how to pass my token or resource types to the api. > > Thank you for any help > > > > -- > > Derrick Cope > > > > --from my mutt > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > > > >
