Use POST method with URL and Google Refine/ OpenRefine

Question

OpenRefine http://openrefine.org/ allows URL generation using GREL as tokens. I want to connect to an API which only supports a POST method . Can I format the URL so it calls the REST API using POST? Ref: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Fetching-URLs-From-Web-Services

Answer 1

Not currently, but it'd be a good enhancement request. Click "issues" at the OpenRefine site URL that you posted.

Bonus points for patches/pull requests which implement the feature. :-)

Answer 2

It is actually possible by:

1. creating a curl command using grel and
2. then making the POST query in Jython.

Here is a list of tutorials for the step by step process:

• https://evanwill.github.io/_drafts/notes/refine-post-request.html
• https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/fetch-and-parse-data-with-openrefine#post-request

• https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/g_garcia_openrefine_workshop_itwg2020.pdf