Calling an API inside an ASP.net MVC Controller Action

Question

I am developing an asp.net mvc web application in which I need to call OMDB api (an api to get Imdb information of a movie). I need to send a simple GET request to the api and get the response(movie details), deserialize the response into an object and pass it to the view. Is this possible without using a reference to an external library? Can anybody give me an example on how to do it inside a controller action.

Rami · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-13 09:24:30Z

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You can use the WebRequest class

using System.Net;

string url = "https://www.service.com?param=movieName";

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);

HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();

Reference:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307023

edited Mar 13, 2014 at 9:24

answered Mar 13, 2014 at 9:19

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Deepal Over a year ago

thanks for the answer and it worked well! I used StreamReader class to read the responseStream.

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