Making API Requets using JWT and HTTPie

howto.md

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Here's a quick guide to make requests to the nexmo API that need to be authenticated with JWT and have a JSON request body.

You will need:

• The Nexmo CLI installed
• The private key for your application stored in a local file named private.key
• The applicaiton ID of your applicaiton
• The payload of the request in a file called request.json (see example)

For exampe to create a call use the following command (replace the application ID with your value)

http POST https://api.nexmo.com/v1/calls Authorization: "Bearer `nexmo jwt:generate ./private.key application_id=aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-0123456789ab`" @request.json

You'll get nicely formatted responses from the API

request.json

{
  "to":[{"type":"phone","number":"447700900123"}],
  "from":{"type":"phone","number":"447700900456"},
  "answer_url":["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nexmo-community/ncco-examples/gh-pages/text-to-speech.json"]
}