Web Service Failing to Connect

Issues
1

I have been attempting to use the ESV bible API to create a drafts action that will pull in bible verses based on highlighted text. I have made this work using workflow but it would be nice to have it integrated and not have to leave the drafts app. That being said, I have tried and tried to get this code to work but nothing seems return a successful response. Every time I run the script I get a -1 response from the http.request.

Here is what I have for my code. I have striped everything down to the bear minimum at this point

var http = HTTP.create();

//I took my token out for obvious reasons. 
var credential ="1234";

var response = http.request({
  	"method":"GET", 
	"url":"https://api.esv.org/v3/passage/text/", 
	"headers": {
		"Authorization":"Token "+ credential	
	},
	"data": {
		"q":"john3:16"
	}
});

if (response.success) {
  var text = response.responseText;
  var data = response.responseData;
}
else {
  console.log(response.statusCode);
  console.log(response.error);
}

I have tried other web services from drafts and had no issue. I also took all this data and ran it from an Ajax function from my browser which had no issue and I ran it through a couple API tools as well just to make sure the issue wasn’t server side.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Nathan

2

The data option is for data which gets send in the body of a POST request. It looks like ESV wants parameters in the URL query. So, something like:

var response = http.request({
  	"method":"GET", 
	"url":"https://api.esv.org/v3/passage/text/?q=john%203:16", 
	"headers": {
		"Authorization":"Token "+ credential	
	}
});

This is untested, but try it.

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3

Well thanks! I had previously tried handling it this way but I was getting the same timeout error. Not sure why it works this time and didn’t when I tried previously but I will take it. Thanks again!