Apps Script PUT API

Question

My goal is to update an API using Apps Script but I cannot work out how to do it. For simplicity sake here is my code:

let APIkey = "...";
let url = "..."

newData = {"stock_status": "instock"}

//Update API

The problem is I do not know how to get any further. I have read the relevant docs to this API but to no avail and I couldn't find anything about put requests in the Apps Script docs.

Answer 1

Answer:

You need to use UrlFetchApp.

Example:

I don't know how your API accepts authentication, but assuming it accepts the key as a URL parameter then you can do something like:

let APIkey = "..."
let url = "..."

const newData = {
  "stock_status": "instock"
}

var options = {
  'method' : 'PUT',
  'contentType': 'application/json',
  'payload' : JSON.stringify(newData)
}

UrlFetchApp.fetch(`${url}?key=${APIkey}`, options);

You can read the full documentation on fetch here