As you will hopefully already know by now we added the ability to use Python code a while back in Macro Scheduler 14.2.

A customer recently had a need to retrieve some data from a web service which requires some custom authentication headers to be sent with the request.

It’s really easy to do this using Python. Here’s a made-up example:

/*
python_code:
 
import urllib2

custom_headers={"X-Custom-Application-Id" : "4020c4b37ead0a834c0010a9",
                "X-Custom-REST-API-Key": "49eade9c-d70a-4d3d-b552-4bd9f05966fc"}
url="https://api.custom.com/v1/objects/object_1/things"

request = urllib2.Request(url, headers=custom_headers)
contents = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
*/
 
//Load the Python code to a variable
LabelToVar>python_code,pcode
 
//Run the code and request the value of the contents variable ...
PYExec>pcode,output,contents

//content of request is now in "contents" variable.

For more on Python in Macro Scheduler see here and here.