Receive and send messages via an HTTP API

[jenniferzhu]

Is there a way to receive and send messages via an HTTP API?

[stephenlb]

Yes! Yes there is.

Send Message

curl https://ps.pubnub.com/publish/YOUR_PUBLISH_KEY/YOUR_SUBSCRIBE_KEY/0/YOUR_CHANNEL/0/%7B%22uuid%22%3A%222017-11-22T00%3A56%3A23.679Z%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22data%22%3A%22HELLOOOOOO%22%2C%22user%22%3A%7B%22id%22%3A%22e84c26cf-413f-472e-9453-fde1a54abd0c%22%2C%22name%22%3A%22DinkySilver%22%7D%7D%7D

Example that works with the angular chat demo.

curl https://ps.pubnub.com/publish/demo/demo/0/global/0/%7B%22uuid%22%3A%222017-11-22T00%3A56%3A23.679Z%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22data%22%3A%22HELLOOOOOO%22%2C%22user%22%3A%7B%22id%22%3A%22e84c26cf-413f-472e-9453-fde1a54abd0c%22%2C%22name%22%3A%22DinkySilver%22%7D%7D%7D

Receive Messages

curl "https://ps.pubnub.com/v2/stream/YOUR_SUBSCRIBE_KEY/YOUR_CHANNELS/0?tt=-1&tr=1"

Example that works with the angular chat demo.

while true ; do curl "https://ps.pubnub.com/v2/stream/demo/global%2Ce84c26cf-413f-472e-9453-fde1a54abd0c%2Cglobal-pnpres%2Ce84c26cf-413f-472e-9453-fde1a54abd0c-pnpres/0?tt=-1&tr=1" ; done

[stephenlb]

You can also pipe this into python or ruby shell script to parse the JSON and perform some additional tasks when data arrives, like save to a Database.