Help adding a datapoint from Tasker using Beeminder API

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I’ve used the API a lot from both curl and Python, and it basically works the way it says it does.

When you do something like:

curl -X POST https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/users/alice/goals/weight/datapoints.json
-d auth_token=abc123
-d timestamp=1325523600
-d value=130.1
-d comment=sweat+a+lot+today

per the docs, you’re using curl’s -d, which basically sends it like a webbrowser does.

  -d, --data <data>

         (HTTP) Sends the specified data in  a  POST  request  to  the  HTTP

         server,  in the same way that a browser does when a user has filled

         in an HTML form and presses the submit button. This will cause curl

         to  pass  the  data  to  the server using the content-type applica-

         tion/x-www-form-urlencoded.  Compare to -F, --form.

Lemme do one with curl and get all the headers for you:

$ curl -v -X POST https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/users/adamwolf/goals/coffeeless_days/datapoints.json -d auth_token=REDACTED -d value=1 -d comment=helloworld

Note: Unnecessary use of -X or --request, POST is already inferred.

  • Trying 23.92.16.25…

  • TCP_NODELAY set

  • Connected to www.beeminder.com (23.92.16.25) port 443 (#0)

  • ALPN, offering h2

  • ALPN, offering http/1.1

  • Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH

  • successfully set certificate verify locations:

  • CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem

CApath: none

  • TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

  • TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):

  • TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):

  • TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):

  • TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):

  • TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):

  • TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):

  • TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):

  • TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):

  • TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):

  • SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384

  • ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1

  • Server certificate:

  • subject: OU=Domain Control Validated; CN=*.beeminder.com

  • start date: Sep 15 01:00:49 2015 GMT

  • expire date: Sep 15 01:00:49 2018 GMT

  • subjectAltName: host “www.beeminder.com” matched cert’s “*.beeminder.com”

  • issuer: C=BE; O=GlobalSign nv-sa; CN=AlphaSSL CA - SHA256 - G2

  • SSL certificate verify ok.

> POST /api/v1/users/adamwolf/goals/coffeeless_days/datapoints.json HTTP/1.1

> Host: www.beeminder.com

> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0

> Accept: /

> Content-Length: 58

> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

>

  • upload completely sent off: 58 out of 58 bytes

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK

< Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

< Transfer-Encoding: chunked

< Connection: keep-alive

< Status: 200 OK

< Cache-Control: max-age=0, private, must-revalidate

< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

< X-Request-Id: 7b49bcb9-0d80-45d9-be78-50e5acf5563e

< X-UA-Compatible: chrome=1

< ETag: “415d47182e8c853ae81f4d45f04a76d7”

< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

< X-Runtime: 0.213489

< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

< Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:37:04 GMT

< Set-Cookie: _beeminder_session=REDACTED; path=/; HttpOnly

< X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger Enterprise 5.1.10

< Server: nginx/1.12.1 + Phusion Passenger 5.1.10

<

{“timestamp”:1533735424,“value”:1.0,“comment”:“helloworld”,“id”:“5b6af200bfec0316940003e7”,“updated_at”:1533735424,“requestid”:null,“canonical”:“08 1 "helloworld"”,“fulltext”:“2018-Aug-08 entered at 08:37 via api”,“origin”:“api”,“daystamp”:“20180808”,“status”:“created”}%

I think that without another user who has already done this, your best bet may be to email support. They miiight be able to take a look at your API calls. Maybe it’s something silly like Autoweb is sending GETs instead?

Please let us know if you figure it out!

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:06 AM imoatama <beeminder@discoursemail.com> wrote:

imoatama
August 8

OK, I have managed to get it to add a datapoint via Autoweb after adding in the www to the address, and by submitting the value parameter as a “Query” type input in autoweb- ie url encoded. But it only seems to use one of the variables this way - my comment input was ignored.

Posting with a message body of eg value=1&comment=test causes it to flame out with some new and different error.

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