I'm looking for a way to get Realtime External Json data.
Atm i'm using a javascript timeout that checks the json file, but this makes it that i'm stuck to a "refresh time", and i'm making this system for a notification app from a external json data from a other URL.
I've now been trying websockets such as node.js but i cant manage to find it.
As even i searched everywhere on Stack but i just cant manage to find it.
If someone got a good post about this or a solution to what i should use.
I can use a server thats 24/7, but i prefer it to be on a simple webhosting altought i don't think that is possible for realtime.
Already thanks for your help!
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I have an online app that im trying to convert into a PWA, but I dont know how to achieve some things.
The most difficult one is passing database (mysql) info, as it is necessary because its an app that makes a lot of math and it gets the formulas out of the database one by one when needed.
I was wondering if it would be possible to pass those formulas and database info to the service worker, the same happens with php files as I have read it only accepts html, js and css.
Thanks
First off sorry if this question is a 'bad' one; I am very new to the world of web apps, API's and Javascript.
As the title says I am trying to get a user's steamID using the Steam API using javascript.
This is for a web app that needs to get information about the games a user plays. (Which from my understanding is only obtainable using this special ID.)
My initial thoughts on how to do this would be to use openID so that the user gives Steam their info and the ID is returned to my app.
I have seen that there are lots of examples of this using php; however, because of project requirements, everything must be run in the browser. There is no backend server to even run php on so it is not an option what so ever.
I have spent a better part of a day trying to figure this out and have made no real progress, everything seems to lead back to using php. (maybe what I need under my requirements is not possible?) So an example or anything really would be much appreciated.
welcome to Stack Overflow I can see you are confused as to where to start or progress so here is a basic roadmap:
You will need to contact Steam to get an API key first.
Next part is more tricky for a beginner. You will need to get node.js which is a package manager. Effectively it's a large library of javascript programs which you can import into your own program to do things with. One of these so called "packages" is openid-client, which is an implementation of openID that you can add to your site. Users click on the openID button on your site, it redirects them to steam servers, they login, then your site gets their info without leaking their username or password to you.
Now that you have both the steamID and your API Key your program can input these two into the url steam provides to get owned games. You can input this completed url into fetch or axios (another node package that can request data from servers) and it will respond with the user's owned games in json format.
Here are a list of resources in order to get you started:
https://steamcommunity.com/dev
https://nodejs.org/en/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/openid-client
https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-fetch OR https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_Web_API#GetOwnedGames_.28v0001.29
I suggest reading the documentation in each of these links and seeing if there is any youtube tutorials that try and do what you are doing with these technologies to help you implement them as a newbie. Overall there is a lot to learn on each of these technologies but as long as you orient yourself using guides or tutorials you will succeed. Good luck.
Check out this page: How to retrieve Steam username using SteamWorks API?.
However, it seems like an issue you might be having is connecting to the actual API. What exactly are you using for testing?
I know from experience, for example, that you can connect using Postman to various API's, and format a request for them in a chosen language, including JS>
I'm working on my first web app using ReactJs and have the frontend pretty much done. Now I want to be able to pair the user's data with their username so next time they log in, everything will be exactly as they left it. The user's data is currently all in a JavaScript object so I think I want to save it as a json file. However, I have no clue how to even start this.
My first issue comes with creating the login system. Obviously I cannot just store the username and password in plain text so I would need to encrypt and decrypt it somehow. However, I am currently hosting my site on Netlify so I would need to pass that information over there somehow and the only way I can think of is by adding it to my GitHub repo which is public so anyone can then see my encryption algorithm.
I'm not even sure if this is even how you do it since I've never done anything like this before. Does anyone know where I should start? I don't need something super sophisticated just reasonable.
Probably you can use google's firebase and firestore services. They have an amazing documentation on their website too and there's plenty of resources online. google for firebase authentication tutorial and you'll find a whole lot.
First of all, im a beginner in web services, API calls, HTTP requests and backend development, so maybe im saying stuff that doesnt make any sense, but I will try to explain in a way where everyone cna understand.
I have an audio file on my PC. I want to upload this audio using a HTML form and . After this file is uploaded I want to send this audio file (POST method) as a data-binary (cURL) to make a HTTP request to an API REST service (speech-to-text). Is there any way to do this?
Im currently using a Javascript flow editor called Node-RED. I have done the following:
The speech to text, language translator and NLU services are from IBM Cloud.
Could anyone please tell me how to get this done, or at least tell me which topics I need to study in order to get this done?
I really appreciate it if anyone could provide me a lead.
Thanks beforehand.
cURL support such calls, take a look at the --data-binary option in its man page or here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#--data-binary
Quoting the same docs:
(HTTP) This posts data exactly as specified with no extra processing whatsoever. If you start the data with the letter #, the rest should be a filename.
I am trying to set up a simple set up as follows:
Have a mobile app with a page consisting of 4 lines (4 html paragraph lines (I am using phonegap)).
I want to use a web page from which I will input the data for those 4 lines. This information is sent to a server and that server transfers this information to that app on that mobile phone. Now, those 4 lines on the mobile phone is filled with the new information.
Similarly user inputs information on another page consisting of 10 lines of li (list). This information is again sent to the server and to the web page where the information is displayed.
I can almost feel the "internet police guys" getting all hyped and ready to vote this question down. But please understand that I have been on this site and various forums desperate to find a tutorial to guide me to do this and not able to find.
I am trying to use ajax to perform this setup. Confused how I would be using the php file. Information such as password n username is going to go in that php file to connect to the server. But php is a server side script thus needs to sit at the public_html folder. How do I use the php file from my desktop? Write a separate javascript to access it?
It is the concept that is confusing me. I am familiar with html,js,php.
I would appreciate any guidance or maybe a link to a tutorial which would help me to do the concept I mentioned. Thanks for listening.
You will need to create an API using PHP. This API is uploaded to your server and is considered "RESTful". Google a tutorial for what fits your needs. You can set all sorts of rules in this API such as requiring any requests to have an ID or access token.
Since you are using PhoneGap, your HTML and JS files rest on the device, so you will need to allow permissions to your API from anywhere. For this you will have to speak to your host provider about unless you know how to configure it yourself (some providers restrict what you want to do by default as an extra security precaution against XSS attacks).
Next, you can either use jQuery, or you can write some AJAX calls by writing the JavaScript yourself.
The most efficient way for this to work is to send JSON objects to and from the API. You will include a "command" in the JSON when you are sending from your app. On the PHP side, you will retrieve this command and use the rest of the data included in your JSON object to process the request. Your API will need to encode a JSON object for return (such as a user's profile information).
Here is a basic PHP API tutorial to get you going that explains some of the features of a RESTful API: PHP API
Here is a simple AJAX function (you will probably want to make this much more modular): AJAX
As broad as your question is, it seems like the best/easiest thing for you to do will be for you to first create a PHP webpage that will access a SQL database to perform the record updating. Actually, this should serve all of your needs for your mobile users assuming you don't need push notifications for live data updates.
I am assuming, since you are using phone gap, that you are more comfortable with web languages. After you get the webpage fully operational, then you should start building your app based on that exact same SQL database. With mobile app development there are a lot more "what if's" (what if the phone rings, what if the app is running in the background, what if there is no cellular service, etc...)
It is always easier to start with what you know and build on that, rather than starting with a new development platform and troubleshooting as problems arise.