API call not working

[ianww]

I'm new to both cables and APIs.

I'm trying to make an API call from this free RapidAPI site: https://rapidapi.com/astronomyapi-astronomyapi-default/api/astronomy/

Based on the code snippets on that site, in cables I've used ConcatMulti to concatenate the following strings, with the result being feed to AjaxRequest:

https://cors.cables.gl/ [I'VE TRIED IT BOTH WITH AND WITHOUT THIS CORS PROXY]
https://astronomy.p.rapidapi.com/api/v2/bodies/positions/
?X-RapidAPI-Key=730e563f72msh87c266b4ec899b8p15d469jsn6b82ee106270
&X-RapidAPI-Host=astronomy.p.rapidapi.com
&latitude=33.775867&longitude=-84.39733
&from_date=2017-12-20&to_date=2017-12-21

I'm getting a null return in AjaxRequest, and I can't work out why. I'd really appreciate some advice!

[steam0r]

calling this url with ajax request gives me a 401 unauthorized error, so i guess something is wrong with your apikey or any other auth:

dev-tools really help to debug these networking issues

[steam0r]

https://cables.gl/op/Ops.Json.ObjectGetArray_v2 should help you out, or you could use the structure view:

there is also a series of tutorials on working with arrays in cables:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRFfvVgWFcs

[ianww]

Thanks, but that's what I'm using - https://cables.gl/op/Ops.Json.ObjectGetArray_v2 - and I'm getting a null return. AjaxRequest is populated but ObjectGetArray is null.

[steam0r]

then thats maybe deeper nested and you need a few of these ops? cant really help any further without the datastructure or preferrably a public example patch, sorry

[ianww]

I've worked out that in my case ObjectGetArray was the wrong node to use to extract the data from the AjaxRequest. Instead of ObjectGetArray I've successfully used ObjectValues to convert the object to an array, and then I used the structure gear icon to examine this array and help me select ArrayGetNumberByPath to extract a subarray of specific data. So, now all good!

Thanks again for your interest and advice.

[steam0r]

great, congratulations and also thanks for sharing your working result!