对API的POST请求

Question

So some quick background: I'm trying to teach myself to code, but right now I'm really a beginner. I'm trying to help out my younger brother's school with setting up a moodle-powered online course system featuring videos of full classes, and I've run into a snag with the school's preferred video host.

Basically, here's my problem: The guys hosting the videos don't want to allow people to directly link to the videos, instead they built an API they want us to use that takes a POST request, then outputs a new URL, which expires after one use.

I've figured out how to use the API using POSTman or in the terminal

#for example: 
#  curl -F 
#     api_key='the api key they gave us' -F  
#     email='a user's email' -F  
#     destination='a subdirectory' 
#     'the target URL'

What I can't figure out, is how to automate this process so that teachers can input the link to their video on our host's site ('somesite.com/videos/teacherx/') directly in the moodle class editor (if possible), so that whenever a student is taking the class they can click a link that runs the script, does the POST request, and redirects them to the new temporary URL.

In case you can't tell, I have no idea what I'm doing.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

It sounds like you'll need a text filter - basically search for text and replace it with something else when displaying.

See if your application is listed here : https://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=category&id=7

If not then you will need to write your own filter - the instructions are here https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Filters

Maybe download the code for the screencast filter and see how that works : https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=filter_screencast

Or you can look at the screencast code on github at https://github.com/TechSmith/Moodle-Screencast-Filter