Trouble with "your first webhook" weather example [Fixed]

Troubleshooting
1

I am trying to replicate the the weather example from the webhook doc page (http://docs.spark.io/webhooks/) but something’s going wrong. PS I’m a beginner so go easy please. :smile:

Using the CLI I entered this command (copied and pasted from the example page)

spark webhook GET get_weather http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KMSP.xml

This doesn’t work. I just get a list of commands I can try instead of the success message. I assume that’s because it’s missing the “create” command, right? What am I doing wrong?? Thanks!

2

looks like a typo...

spark webhook create get_weather http:/.....

probably need to fix the docs... @BDub??

EDIT, well I made a typo too!

3

Yep, looks like that did it. :smile:

4

The “GET” command is brand new! Make sure you’re using the latest version of the spark-cli with:

npm update -g spark-cli

hmm, I’m not seeing this deployed like I expected… checking…

edit: looks like this was left out of the CLI, my mistake! I’ve pushed those commands, and hopefully we’ll have an update deployed soon. Sorry about that!

Thanks!
David

5

While you are waiting for the updates to make it to the Spark CLI, you can emulate this line:

spark webhook GET get_weather http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KMSP.xml

With this one

spark webhook create weather.json

And this JSON file

##weather.json

{
    "eventName": "get_weather",
    "url": "http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KMSP.xml",
    "requestType": "GET",
    "mydevices": true
}
6

Thanks @BDub this is awesome. For some reason now I’m receiving a timeout message no matter how I try to create the webhook. Is there something wrong with the service?

Something went wrong, server said:  Timed out
7

More and more I think I might have gotten myself blacklisted here. I can’t create new webhooks and the ones I made a few days ago have stopped returning data reliably. ( See: https://community.spark.io/t/webhook-callbacks-unreliable-atm/10633 )

When I implemented my first webhook I accidentally called the hook every loop while the data wasn’t set. :astonished:

Would that have gotten me banned? :neutral_face:

8

didn't realize you'd cross-posted...

9

I don’t think you can get blacklisted… that’s what rate limiting is for. It prevents you from being bad. That said, try to be good! :smile:

We’re looking into these issues. Try to create the webhook again though. It should eventually be successful or give you an error, not timeout.