I need to do a series of curl calls from Excel running on a Mac (version 15.29.1).
I found some solution here as below, however I keep getting:
Runtime error 5 (Invalid procedure call)
Can anyone here help with a solution?
Thanks in advance.
Option Explicit
' execShell() function courtesy of Robert Knight via StackOverflow
' https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6136798/vba-shell-function-in-office-2011-for-mac
Private Declare PtrSafe Function popen Lib "libc.dylib" (ByVal command As String, ByVal mode As String) As LongPtr
Private Declare PtrSafe Function pclose Lib "libc.dylib" (ByVal file As LongPtr) As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function fread Lib "libc.dylib" (ByVal outStr As String, ByVal size As LongPtr, ByVal items As LongPtr, ByVal stream As LongPtr) As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function feof Lib "libc.dylib" (ByVal file As LongPtr) As LongPtr
Function execShell(command As String, Optional ByRef exitCode As Long) As String
Dim file As LongPtr
file = popen(command, "r")
If file = 0 Then
Exit Function
End If
While feof(file) = 0
Dim chunk As String
Dim read As Long
chunk = Space(50)
read = fread(chunk, 1, Len(chunk) - 1, file)
If read > 0 Then
chunk = Left$(chunk, read)
execShell = execShell & chunk
End If
Wend
exitCode = pclose(file)
End Function
Function HTTPGet(sUrl As String, sQuery As String) As String
Dim sCmd As String
Dim sResult As String
Dim lExitCode As Long
sCmd = "curl -X POST --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' -d """ & sQuery & """" & " " & sUrl
MsgBox (sCmd)
sResult = execShell(sCmd, lExitCode)
' ToDo check lExitCode
HTTPGet = sResult
End Function