https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Call-External-REST-URL-from-search/m-p/451663#M6362 <P>Do you want the REST API call to originate from the user's browser? Remember dashboards can have javascript and that javascript can do anything that the cross-origin policy allows. Sometimes cross-origin policy makes it just too difficult to call 3rd party APIs directly from the browser though.</P> <P>You can always <A href="http://dev.splunk.com/view/python-sdk/SP-CAAAEU2">build your own custom search command</A>. The user (or the dashboard they are viewing) makes a call to <CODE>| callmyrestapi</CODE> which runs a python script on the search head that does the needful.</P> <P>There is already an app, <A href="https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4172/">https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4172/</A>, that provides a very generic <CODE>|curl</CODE> custom search command. This may be enough to do what you need.</P> Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:28:21 GMT dwaddle 2019-02-03T14:28:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Call-External-REST-URL-from-search/m-p/451662#M6361 <P>I know that we can use REST Modular Input to call REST API and get the results in JSON format in Splunk. But, my requirement is different.<BR /> I want to make a rest call directly in Splunk search. is this possible ? If yes, can someone give any pointers ?</P> Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:40:04 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Call-External-REST-URL-from-search/m-p/451662#M6361 premraj_vs 2019-02-03T12:40:04Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Call-External-REST-URL-from-search/m-p/451663#M6362 <P>Do you want the REST API call to originate from the user's browser? Remember dashboards can have javascript and that javascript can do anything that the cross-origin policy allows. Sometimes cross-origin policy makes it just too difficult to call 3rd party APIs directly from the browser though.</P> <P>You can always <A href="http://dev.splunk.com/view/python-sdk/SP-CAAAEU2">build your own custom search command</A>. The user (or the dashboard they are viewing) makes a call to <CODE>| callmyrestapi</CODE> which runs a python script on the search head that does the needful.</P> <P>There is already an app, <A href="https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4172/">https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4172/</A>, that provides a very generic <CODE>|curl</CODE> custom search command. This may be enough to do what you need.</P> Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:28:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Call-External-REST-URL-from-search/m-p/451663#M6362 dwaddle 2019-02-03T14:28:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Call-External-REST-URL-from-search/m-p/451664#M6363 <P>Thank you. Will check this</P> Sun, 03 Feb 2019 19:26:16 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Call-External-REST-URL-from-search/m-p/451664#M6363 premraj_vs 2019-02-03T19:26:16Z