API: HTTP Get Article
The Get Article commands allow you to return the content of an article specified by ID or name. This command returns the article id, name, title, description, deck, callout, body, author name, author email, and author bio of the specified article.
Arguments
The Get Article commands require the following arguments: Command, Realm, Password, and either Article name or Article ID.
api_web?r=myrealm&p=mypass&c=getarticlewithid&article_id=42
The command is ‘getarticlewithid’, the realm is ‘myrealm’, the password is ‘mypass’, and the ID is '42'.
api_web?r=myrealm&p=mypass&c=getarticlewithname&article_name=myarticle
The command is ‘getarticlewithname’, the realm is ‘myrealm’, the password is ‘mypass’, and the name is 'myarticle'.
The Get Article commands support the following arguments:
Name | Req? | Description | Argument |
Command | Yes | Defines the command to use. | cmd=[getarticlewithid, getarticlewithname] c=[getarticlewithid, getarticlewithname] |
Realm | Yes | Name of the realm to run the command. This is required, and the command will fail if the realm and password do not match. | realm= [realm_name] r=[realm_name] |
Password | Yes | Authentication code for API access. This is required, and the command will fail if the realm and password do not match. | pwd=[password] p=[password] |
Version |
| Version of API to use. Data may be added to newer versions of the API. To alleviate issues for users who have already coded file parsing, new columns are only displayed if the version is included. | version=[version_number] 8.4.0 = folder_id |
Article Identification | Yes | Name or ID of the article to return. If there are spaces in the name, you can replace the space with + or %20 to avoid possible issues with spaces in a URL. | article_name=[article_name] or article_id=[article_id] |
Output Format |
| To specify the format of the list output, use one of two arguments. If no argument is included, the default output is space-delimited plain text string, which may not include all data columns. | csv=1 or output_format=[csv,csv_tab, csv_pipe,xml] |
Header |
| To define the data with a label, use the Header argument. This can only be used in conjunction with the output format, and does not affect XML. | headers=[0,1] DEFAULT==0 |
Example
Using all commands and arguments (please note the command is wrapped for display purposes only):
api_web?r=myrealm&p=mypass&c=getarticlewithid&article_id=42&output_format=csv&headers=1&version=8.4.0
Successful results return:
"Article ID","Name","Title","Article Description","Deck","Callout","Article Body","Author Name","Author Email","Author Bio","Folder ID" "42","myarticle","Title","Description","Deck","Callout","Body content","Author","Email","Bio","9"
If not output format is defined, plain results return:
"Article ID","Article Name" "42","myarticle"
Results
The Get Article commands output either the results of the search or a FAILURE message.
SUCCESS
The Get Article commands do not explicitly return a Success code. Instead, it outputs the article data. Use the Output Format argument to return the results in a specific format.
FAILURE
A Get Articlecommand will fail for several reasons. The result format is:
FAILURE: [Reason]