request

Send a GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE request to a remote URL.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required?	Default	Description
url	string	Required		URL to send the HTTPS request to
method	string	Required		Request type. GET|POST|PUT|DELETE
headers	object	Optional		Object containing HTTP headers to set. Valid header values are Accept, Authorization, Content-Type, Range, and custom X- headers
body	string | object	Optional		Request body. Content-Type header should be explicitly set, but if not set, the most likely type will be set based on the first non-whitespace character.
connect_timeout	number	Optional	5.0 seconds	Maximum time in seconds to wait for a connection
timeout	number	Optional	5.0 seconds	Maximum time in seconds to wait for a response
save_variables	boolean	Optional	false	Store parsed JSON response as variables

Variables

Set by the method:

• request_url: (out) URL the request was sent to.
• request_result: (out) success | failed.
• return_value: (out) The same value as the request_result.
• request_response_code: (out) HTTP response code from the request.
• request_response_headers.<header name lowercase>: (out) HTTP response headers. Header names should be normalized to lowercase and trimmed of whitespace. A maximum of 64 headers are saved. Ex: %{request_response_headers.content-type}.
• request_response_body: (out) Raw HTTP response body. This is limited to 64KB.
• request_response.<object_field>: (out) Variables saved from the response if save_variables is true and parsed as JSON.

For example, if the server responds with the following JSON:

  { "status": "created", "time": "2 seconds ago", "number": { "home": "n/a" } }

The variables request_response.status, request_response.time, and request_response.number.home are set.

Examples

Making a POST Request

YAML

version: 1.0.0
sections:
  main:
    - answer
    - request:
        url: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1
        method: get
        save_variables: true
        timeout: 10
    - play: "say: the title is: %{request_response.title}"

JSON

{
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "sections": {
    "main": [
      "answer",
      {
        "request": {
          "url": "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1",
          "method": "get",
          "save_variables": true,
          "timeout": 10
        }
      },
      {
        "play": "say: the title is: %{request_response.title}"
      }
    ]
  }
}