sceptre-request-resolver

A Sceptre resolver to make requests from REST API endpoints.

Motivation

There are some pretty useful REST API endpoints on the internet. The endpoints can return lots of different types of data, typically in JSON format. This simple resolver can retrieve that data and pass it to Sceptre parameters or scepter_user_data parameters.

Installation

To install directly from PyPI

pip install sceptre-request-resolver

To install from this git repo

pip install git+https://github.com/Sceptre/sceptre-request-resolver.git

Usage/Examples

parameters|sceptre_user_data:
  <name>: !request <API ENDPOINT>

parameters|sceptre_user_data:
  <name>: !request
    url: <API ENDPOINT>

Note: This resolver always returns a string.

Example

Simple request:

parameters:
  wisdom: !request 'https://ron-swanson-quotes.herokuapp.com/v2/quotes'