How to use API with Ruter Reise Norge

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@Jostein89

Should I use curl, http, etc?

Probably the HTTP binding with the caching configuration (see HTTP binding readme).

@Jostein89

Should I create a thing in .things, and should I run the request from there.

The HTTP binding doesn’t support Things.

@Jostein89

JSONPATH should be used to find the information I am looking for in the .xml file?

Yes, and the example you have pasted below is not XML, it is JSON.

@Jostein89

I tried to run the link above in .rules, but as you se below from .log, there is way to much information.

That is what the JSONPATH does, extract the indicated piece of informaiton.

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Comprehensive Wunderground using HTTP Binding Example

WARNING: Wunderground has eliminated their free API keys. If you already have an API key it will still work for some unknown amount of time but if you don’t already have a key this tutorial will not work for you. This tutorial will illustrate how I currently use the HTTP binding to get weather information from Wunderground, bypassing the various weather bindings which, if the postings on the forum are any indication, are a bit flakey and provide incomplete information. You could apply this to o…