Accessing the iPhone companion app api using curl

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A quick-start guide for accessing the iPhone companion app api using the command line tool curl.

I have been playing around with the API from the command line so thought I'd put down my notes as a quick-start guide to accessing the API.

The first step that you will need to carry out is to login. To do so you can use the following command:
 

Code:

EMAIL=YOUR_LOGIN_EMAIL_HERE

PASSWORD=YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE

USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/11D257" curl -c cookies.txt -H "User-Agent: ${USER_AGENT}" -d email=${EMAIL} -d password="${PASSWORD}" https://companion.orerve.net/user/login

 

If the email and password are correct you should receive an authentication token to the email account specified in ${EMAIL}, the same as you would when you first log in to a machine. Note that if you have any special characters in your password (e.g. &) then these will need to be escaped using standard URL encoding.

Once you have this code you can send the confirmation request:
 

Code:

CODE=YOUR_CONFIRMATION_CODE_HERE

curl -b cookies.txt -c cookies.txt -H "User-Agent: ${USER_AGENT}" -d code=${CODE} https://companion.orerve.net/user/confirm

 

Again assuming that the code is correct you will now be set up to request data using the API. For example to obtain your profile:
 

Code:

curl -b cookies.txt -c cookies.txt -H "User-Agent: ${USER_AGENT}" https://companion.orerve.net/profile | sed -e 's/True/true/g' -e 's/False/false/g' -e s/\'/\"/g

 

The munging of the returned data via sed is to turn it in to standard JSON; feel free to skip this bit if you have a more forgiving parser.

 

Admin comment: The example shown is for Unix/Linux and runs in a shell. It can also run unchanged on windows when using a tool like cygwin or a similar tools which allows you to run linux commands. Mac OS which is Unix operating system with a GUI probably will also run the example - if curl is default installed on it. Curl however is also ported to Windows. Aside from curl there is from the same makers also libcurl - the multiprotocol file transfer library. Basically the same as curl but usable as a library which can be used in programs - without the need to call the external curl program. You use can libcurl with the provided C API or one of the over 40 available bindings.


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