# How to use httpGet and httpPost for API

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 23, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-use-httpget-and-httppost-for-api/44817 "2021-03-23T19:53:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-use-httpget-and-httppost-for-api/44817/2 "2021-03-23T20:10:28Z")

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Take a look at `system.net.httpClient()`:

> [@Ignition and (Docker) Portainer API. (HTTP queries)](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-and-docker-portainer-api-http-queries/36725/2):
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> Http bindings aren’t going to work well for this purpose - they’re not very good at authentication right now. I’d recommend [system.net.httpClient()](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/system.net.httpClient). You could wrap things in a class to make accessing the API a little friendlier: class PortainerClient(object): def \_\_init\_\_(self, baseUrl, username, password, \*\*kwargs): self.baseUrl = baseUrl self.client = system.net.httpClient(\*\*kwargs) response = self.client.post(baseUrl + "auth", data={"Username": username, "Password": password}) self…

> [@Importing python library - the wrong way?](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/importing-python-library-the-wrong-way/40527/5):
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> The last commit in the Python registry you linked is titled ‘drop Python 2 support’, so you might not have much luck. But, really, it looks like the API is pretty simple to wrap. Try this out: class AmbientWeatherClient(object): def \_\_init\_\_(self, applicationKey, apiKey): self.baseUrl = "https://api.ambientweather.net/v1/" self.authorization = { "applicationKey": applicationKey, "apiKey": apiKey } self.client = system.net.httpClient() def call(self, endpoint, \*\*kwargs): k…

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