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Custom API	Custom Widget Configuration from the API

This widget can show information from custom self-hosted or third party API.

Fields need to be defined in the mappings section YAML object to correlate with the value in the APIs JSON object. Final field definition needs to be the key with the desired value information.

widget:
  type: customapi
  url: http://custom.api.host.or.ip:port/path/to/exact/api/endpoint
  refreshInterval: 10000 # optional - in milliseconds, defaults to 10s
  username: username # auth - optional
  password: password # auth - optional
  method: GET # optional, e.g. POST
  headers: # optional, must be object, see below
  mappings:
    - field: key # needs to be YAML string or object
      label: Field 1
      format: text # optional - defaults to text
    - field: # needs to be YAML string or object
        path:
          to: key2
      format: number # optional - defaults to text
      label: Field 2
    - field: # needs to be YAML string or object
        path:
          to:
            another: key3
      label: Field 3
      format: percent # optional - defaults to text
    - field: key # needs to be YAML string or object
      label: Field 4
      format: date # optional - defaults to text
      dateStyle: long # optional - defaults to "long". Allowed values: `["full", "long", "medium", "short"]`.
      timeStyle: medium # optional - Allowed values: `["full", "long", "medium", "short"]`.

Supported formats for the values are text, number, float, percent, bytes, bitrate and date.

Example

For the following JSON object from the API:

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Rick Sanchez",
  "status": "Alive",
  "species": "Human",
  "gender": "Male",
  "origin": {
    "name": "Earth (C-137)"
  },
  "locations": [
    {
      "name": "Earth (C-137)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Citadel of Ricks"
    }
  ]
}

Define the mappings section as an array, for example:

mappings:
  - field: name # Rick Sanchez
    label: Name
  - field: status # Alive
    label: Status
  - field:
      origin: name # Earth (C-137)
    label: Origin
  - field:
      locations:
        1: name # Citadel of Ricks
    label: Location

Data Transformation

You can manipulate data with the following tools remap, scale and suffix, for example:

- field: key4
  label: Field 4
  format: text
  remap:
    - value: 0
      to: None
    - value: 1
      to: Connected
    - any: true # will map all other values
      to: Unknown
- field: key5
  label: Power
  format: float
  scale: 0.001 # can be number or string e.g. 1/16
  suffix: kW

Custom Headers

Pass custom headers using the headers option, for example:

headers:
  X-API-Token: token