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.