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REST requests through pyRevit

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 15:05:12 GMT

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a pyRevit button which uses some information I'm getting from a website api using REST requests.

All is working fine when I'm just requesting and running the code on Visual Studio Code, but once I try to turn the whole thing into a button it seams like it doesn't recognize the 'requests' module.

I've been searching and searching but didn't find any information about how to import a module pyRevit doesn't recognize automatically or about a different inherent module suitable for my needs.

Would really appreciate any advise about the matter.

I have attached a print screen of the code.

Best,

Ifat.

Re: REST requests through pyRevit

bhprest — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 16:34:55 GMT

Is the requests module something that you built yourself?

If not, have you researched as to whether the requests module you're using is compatible with ironpython?

There's not much more I can say without digging through your code. Having worked with pyRevit and revitpythonshell in the past, a very common issue is compatibility with the ironpython implementation.

Re: REST requests through pyRevit

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:18:58 GMT

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.

No, I haven't built it myself.
BUT in the meanwhile I managed to figure out how to use WebRequest to get the info from the API, now I'm struggling to understand how to post info back to the api 🙂

There isn't enough solid info about using WebRequest with IronPython out there, at least not enough for a newbie...

Best,

Ifat.

Re: REST requests through pyRevit

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:15:28 GMT

Ok found it! 🙂

Found this link:

http://www.ironpython.info/index.php?title=Submit_a_POST_form_and_download_the_result_web_page

After lot's of trial and error I managed to figure out how to adjust it to my needs.

If you need to add headers to a request, you'll have to create a WebHeaderCollection and add the header to it like you would to a dictionary:

whc = WebHeaderCollection()

whc[aut] = tok

req = WebRequest.Create(url)

req.Headers = whc

Then you proceed with the example from the link.

Best,

Ifat.

Re: REST requests through pyRevit

Ian_H — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:17:55 GMT

I think I am in a similar situation as you were. I'm not wanting to pull any info from Revit, I'm just wanting to send data to Notion. I have a working script in VS Code, but when I placed it in my folder structure it didn't work.

I think it has to do with the imported libraries and maybe python3 vs ironpython. The libraries I'm using are 'requests' and 'json'. The link you posted didn't work, do I just need to follow the instructions you provided for the script to work?

Here is the GitHub script link if you want to view the code for reference-->

https://github.com/kslifter/Python

Thanks!

Re: REST requests through pyRevit

Yanir_Studio — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:33:34 GMT

the github link or this link
http://www.ironpython.info/index.php?title=Submit_a_POST_form_and_download_the_result_web_page
are not working, can you attach example code so request will work?