Hi, I need to get JSON data from a URL. This is the URL, minus the actual Auth code at the end.

https://api.bridgedataoutput.com/api/v2/OData/test/TestData?access_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If I type this URL into my browser it brings back the data I need. However, if I use it in the code below I get the 'die' message I have set below. My main task right now is to just get the data from the URL into a perl variable. Later on I can worry about parsing the JSON. I have used LWP before to get data this way, usually XML. I can't figure out why this isn't working.

Any help would be appreciated.

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use strict;
use warnings 'all';

use LWP::Simple 'get';
use JSON::Parse 'parse_json';

use constant URL => 'https://api.bridgedataoutput.com/api/v2/OData/tes
+t/TestData?access_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';

my $json = get URL or die "Unable to get JSON data";
my $data = parse_json($json);

print $data;

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Thanks! Mike

In reply to Getting JSON data from a URL using LWP by nachtmsk

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