topic Re: Degree Days API in Integration, Extension & APIs

Degree Days API

alanw58 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 18:35:45 GMT

Hi...

Has anyone used the Degree Days API from Qlik Sense?

I'm having trouble working out what goes where in the REST connection :o(

Any help would be much appreciated.

Re: Degree Days API

Dave_Channon — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 10:03:23 GMT

Hey @alanw58

Did you solve this?

Looking at the API, they require the use of unusual headers, plus base64 encoding of the content. They also require you to make a signature using HMAC, which we can't do in the Qlik Sense connectors.

If you're still looking, and you're on Qlik Cloud, it's possible that the headers could be prepared with a custom code block in Application Automation, and the data saved to the tenant for loading into an app.

Re: Degree Days API

alanw58 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 10:22:27 GMT

Thanks Dave... not done anything yet as still waiting for customer to sign off the project. I could tell it was a pretty old API, but you've confirmed that we probably should be looking for a different one 🐵 There are other ones out there - the customer came up with that one!