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Introduction to howdoi and it's Api

Are you a hack programmer? Do you find yourself constantly Googling for how to do basic programming tasks?

Suppose you want to know how to format a date in bash. Why open your browser and read through blogs (risking major distraction) when you can simply stay in the console and ask howdoi 👌

$ howdoi format date bash
> DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`

But Instead of this 👆, now you can use the Api

$ python3 howdoiapi.py "format date bash"

# put current date as yyyy-mm-dd in $date
# -1 -> explicit current date, bash >=4.3 defaults to current time if not provided
# -2 -> start time for shell
printf -v date '%(%Y-%m-%d)T\n' -1

# put current date as yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS in $date
printf -v date '%(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)T\n' -1

# to print directly remove -v flag, as such:
printf '%(%Y-%m-%d)T\n' -1
# -> current date printed to terminal

why did you make an api for howdoi

You can't pip install howdoi in some os because of some libraries that comes with howdoi, so why not make a call to the Api and get a response

From python

import sys,requests,json

headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
data = f'txt={sys.argv[1]}'

sent_data = requests.post('http://howdoi.remote.moe', headers=headers, data=data)
print(sent_data.status_code)
data = json.loads(sent_data.json())
for i in data:
    print(i["answer"])
    print(i["link"])

From curl

curl -X POST -d "txt=format date bash" http://howdoi.remote.moe

From JavaScript

fetch

fetch('http://howdoi.remote.moe', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    },
    body: 'txt=format date bash'
});

JavaScript (Ajax)

var url = "http://howdoi.remote.moe";

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", url);

xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
   if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
      console.log(xhr.status);
      console.log(xhr.responseText);
   }};

var data = "txt=format date bash";

xhr.send(data);

From Java

URL url = new URL("http://howdoi.remote.moe");
HttpURLConnection http = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
http.setRequestMethod("POST");
http.setDoOutput(true);
http.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

String data = "txt=format date bash";

byte[] out = data.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

OutputStream stream = http.getOutputStream();
stream.write(out);

System.out.println(http.getResponseCode() + " " + http.getResponseMessage());
http.disconnect();

From PHP

<?php

$url = "http://howdoi.remote.moe";

$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$headers = array(
   "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$data = "txt=format date bash";

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

//for debug only!
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

$resp = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
var_dump($resp);

?>

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