Python script to call external URL

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Hey guys,

I have been working with rest_command with hass.services.call()
I am not sure what is the correct syntax. (maybe there is a better way? like http call directly from my python code?)

To be precise, this is what I have in my setup:

configuration.yaml:

rest_command:
  home_1:
    url: 'my external URL here'

my code in python_script/panic.py:
A) This works:

hass.services.call(‘rest_command’, ‘home_1’)

B) Do not work without Error:

hass.services.call(‘rest_command’, ‘my external URL here’)
hass.services.call(‘rest_command’, ‘url:my external URL here’)

What I am trying to do is to avoid editing the configuration file every time I need to add/remove a link (under rest_command urls), since my list will be quite long.
So I prefer to plug in the list of URLs in my python code directly.

Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thank you All!

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hass.services.call only calls home assistant objects, that’s why your top method works. You are feeding it a domian but not a entity_id in the domain.

You might be able to maintain a list of urls in your python code, then set the state of rest_command.home_1.attributes.url (not sure if that’s the correct syntax) to one of the items in your list, then call your service hass.services.call(‘rest_command’,‘home_1’)

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Thank you very much @petro!
This sounds like a good idea. But I think, and you might agree, AppDaemon helps better in this area.
I am interested in complex automations with data from serial input and API calls as outputs so I have already moved on to AppDaemon and things are going well so far. Not much hassle with urls over there.

Thank you again!

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Yep, I moved to appdaemon myself. Haven’t looked back!

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