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paulinventome
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December 13, 2013
Question

Call external URL/Webservice from script

  • December 13, 2013
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Hi,

Perhaps a bit leftfield this but is there any method within a AE script (ActionScript) to call a URL to get data? I ask because i've developed a web based management system for a feature and it would be nice if i can script AE to call into it to get various automated job tasks.

thanks

Paul

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David Torno
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December 17, 2013

This other post might help out.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5503612#5503612

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paulinventomeAuthor
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December 17, 2013

That looks along the right lines, thank you for that!

cheers

Paul

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Arie Stavchansky
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December 17, 2013

Hey Paul,

You can use sockets, but the problem with them is that Extendscript does not support SSL.  I created a workaround a while back that involves using the system.callSystem() method.  Essentially, on OSX you can use the output from a cURL command, and on Windows you can write a VBScript that emulates cURL.  Of course, if you know your API does not use the secure http protocol (https://) you'll be fine with ExtendScript's native socket object.

Check out the long discussion on the topic here:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5685925

Best,

Arie

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