Can FME desktop call Open API data after receiving coordinate information from a file? Basically the client will supply a lat/long from CSV file and then we want use those coordinates to get data from our API source. Request format: https://<apiURL>/data/lat={lat}&lon={lon}&exclude={part}&appid=[API KEY]
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Best answer by itsmatt
Yeah this is doable and pretty common, the tool you want to look at is the HTTPCaller.
Here's an example tutorial: https://community.safe.com/s/article/how-to-access-an-api-using-the-httpcaller
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Yeah this is doable and pretty common, the tool you want to look at is the HTTPCaller.
Here's an example tutorial: https://community.safe.com/s/article/how-to-access-an-api-using-the-httpcaller
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Yeah this is doable and pretty common, the tool you want to look at is the HTTPCaller.
Here's an example tutorial: https://community.safe.com/s/article/how-to-access-an-api-using-the-httpcaller
Thanks for the reference Matt. I got this working.
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