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correct headers. First, you set everything up for a particular API with
curlicue-
setup
, and then you can call that API using
curlicue
. For example, to use
curlicue
with the Twitter API, you would run:
$
curlicue-setup
\
>
'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token'
\
>
'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=$oauth_token'
\
>
'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token'
\
>
credentials
$
curlicue -f credentials
\
>
'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.xml'
For more popular APIs, there are specialized command-line tools available. These are
wrappers that provide a convenient way to connect to the API. In
Chapter 9
, for
example, we'll be using the command-line tool
bigmler
that connects to BigML's pre‐
diction API.
Further Reading
• Molinaro, A. (2005).
SQL Cookbook
. O'Reilly Media.
• Wikipedia. (2014). List of HTTP status codes. Retrieved May 10, 2014, from
