Service » Input » GET

To use the checker as a Web service via GET:

• Issue an HTTP request with a URL for an existing checker instance such as http://validator.w3.org/nu/ or https://validator.nu/.
• Use the GET method for the request.
• Include the URL of the document as a query-string parameter named "doc".
• Encode other parameters as query-string parameters.

Only "&" is supported as a query parameter separator. ";" is not supported.

Percent-encoded octets in the query string must decode to UTF-8.

Examples

The following example shows how to use the Unirest Library in Java to send the document at http://www.example.com to a local instance of the checker running at http://localhost:8080/vnu and get the checker results as JSON:

String response = null;
Map<String, Object> queryConf = new HashMap<String, Object>();
queryConf.put("doc", "http://www.example.com/");
queryConf.put("out", "json");

HttpResponse<String> uniResponse = Unirest.get("http://localhost:8080/vnu")
    .header("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.101 Safari/537.36")
    .header("Content-Type", "text/html; charset=UTF-8")
    .queryString(queryConf)
    .asString();
response = uniResponse.getBody();

See also: Service » HTTP interface