yaml
type: "io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request"

Make an HTTP API request to a specified URL and store the response as output.

This task makes an API call to a specified URL of an HTTP server and stores the response as output. By default, the maximum length of the response is limited to 10MB, but it can be increased to at most 2GB by using the options.maxContentLength property. Note that the response is added as output to the task. If you need to process large API payloads, we recommend using the Download task instead.

Examples

Execute a Kestra flow via an HTTP POST request authenticated with basic auth. To pass a user input to the API call, we use the formData property. When using form data, make sure to set the contentType property to multipart/form-data.

yaml
id: api_call
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: basic_auth_api
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request
    uri: http://host.docker.internal:8080/api/v1/executions/dev/inputs_demo
    options:
      basicAuthUser: admin
      basicAuthPassword: admin
    method: POST
    contentType: multipart/form-data
    formData:
      user: John Doe

Execute a Kestra flow via an HTTP request authenticated with a Bearer auth token / JWT token.

yaml
id: jwt_auth_call
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: auth_token_api
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request
    uri: https://dummyjson.com/user/me
    method: GET
    headers:
      Authorization: 'Bearer <TOKEN>'

Execute a Kestra flow via an HTTP request authenticated with API key passed in the header.

yaml
id: api_key_auth_call
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: api_key_auth
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request
    uri: https://dummyjson.com/user/me
    method: GET
    headers:
      X-API-KEY: abcde12345

Execute a Kestra flow via an HTTP request authenticated with API key passed in the query parameters.

yaml
id: api_key_auth_call
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: api_key_in_query_params
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request
    uri: "https://dummyjson.com/user/me?api_key={{ secret('API_KEY') }}"
    method: GET

Make an HTTP GET request with a timeout. The timeout property specifies the maximum time allowed for the entire task to run, while the options.connectTimeout, options.readTimeout, options.connectionPoolIdleTimeout, and options.readIdleTimeout properties specify the time allowed for establishing a connection, reading data from the server, keeping an idle connection in the client's connection pool, and keeping a read connection idle before closing it, respectively.

yaml
id: timeout
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: http
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request
    uri: https://reqres.in/api/long-request
    timeout: PT10M # no default
    method: GET
    options:
      connectTimeout: PT1M # no default
      readTimeout: PT30S # 10 seconds by default
      connectionPoolIdleTimeout: PT10S # 0 seconds by default
      readIdleTimeout: PT10M # 300 seconds by default

Make a HTTP request and process its output. Given that we send a JSON payload in the request body, we need to use application/json as content type.

yaml
id: http_post_request_example
namespace: company.team

inputs:
  - id: payload
    type: JSON
    defaults: |
      {"title": "Kestra Pen"}

tasks:
  - id: send_data
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request
    uri: https://dummyjson.com/products/add
    method: POST
    contentType: application/json
    body: "{{ inputs.payload }}"

  - id: print_status
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.log.Log
    message: '{{ outputs.send_data.body }}'

Send an HTTP POST request to a webserver.

yaml
id: http_post_request_example
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: send_data
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request
    uri: "https://server.com/login"
    headers:
      user-agent: "kestra-io"
    method: "POST"
    formData:
      user: "user"
      password: "pass"

Send a multipart HTTP POST request to a webserver.

yaml
id: http_post_multipart_example
namespace: company.team

inputs:
  - id: file
    type: FILE

tasks:
  - id: send_data
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request
    uri: "https://server.com/upload"
    headers:
      user-agent: "kestra-io"
    method: "POST"
    contentType: "multipart/form-data"
    formData:
      user: "{{ inputs.file }}"

Send a multipart HTTP POST request to a webserver and set a custom file name.

yaml
id: http_post_multipart_example
namespace: company.team

inputs:
  - id: file
    type: FILE

tasks:
  - id: send_data
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request
    uri: "https://server.com/upload"
    headers:
      user-agent: "kestra-io"
    method: "POST"
    contentType: "multipart/form-data"
    formData:
      user:
        name: "my-file.txt"
        content: "{{ inputs.file }}"

Upload an image using HTTP POST request to a webserver.

yaml
id: http_upload_image
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: s3_download
    type: io.kestra.plugin.aws.s3.Download
    accessKeyId: "{{ secret('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID')}}"
    secretKeyId: "{{ secret('AWS_SECRET_KEY_ID')}}"
    region: "eu-central-1"
    bucket: "my-bucket"
    key: "path/to/file/my_image.jpeg"

  - id: send_data
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request
    uri: "https://server.com/upload"
    headers:
      user-agent: "kestra-io"
    method: "POST"
    contentType: "image/jpeg"
    formData:
      user:
        file: "my-image.jpeg"
        url: "{{ outputs.s3_download.uri }}"
        metadata:
          description: "my favorite image"

Upload a CSV file using HTTP POST request to a webserver.

yaml
id: http_csv_file_upload
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: http_download
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Download
    uri: https://huggingface.co/datasets/kestra/datasets/raw/main/csv/orders.csv

  - id: upload
    type: io.kestra.plugin.core.http.Request
    uri: "https://server.com/upload"
    headers:
      user-agent: "kestra-io"
    method: "POST"
    contentType: "multipart/form-data"
    formData:
      url: "{{ outputs.http_download.uri }}"

Properties

uri

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required: ✔️

The fully-qualified URI that points to the HTTP destination

allowFailed

  • Type: boolean
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:
  • Default: false

If true, allow a failed response code (response code >= 400)

body

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The full body as a string

contentType

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:
  • Default: application/json

The request content type

encryptBody

  • Type: boolean
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:
  • Default: false

If true, the HTTP response body will be automatically encrypted and decrypted in the outputs, provided that encryption is configured in your Kestra configuration.

If this property is set to true, this task will output the request body using the encryptedBody output property; otherwise, the request body will be stored in the body output property.

formData

  • Type: object
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The form data to be send

headers

  • Type: object
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The headers to pass to the request

method

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:
  • Default: GET

The HTTP method to use

options

The HTTP request options

sslOptions

The SSL request options

Outputs

body

  • Type: object
  • Required:

code

  • Type: integer
  • Required:

encryptedBody

  • Type: string
  • Required:

formData

  • Type: object
  • Required:

headers

  • Type: object
  • SubType: array
  • Required:

uri

  • Type: string
  • Required:
  • Format: uri

Definitions

io.kestra.core.http.client.configurations.TimeoutConfiguration

  • connectTimeout
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Format: duration
  • readIdleTimeout
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Default: 300
    • Format: duration

io.kestra.core.http.client.configurations.BasicAuthConfiguration

  • password
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic: ✔️
    • Required:
  • username
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic: ✔️
    • Required:

java.nio.charset.Charset

io.kestra.core.http.client.configurations.HttpConfiguration

  • allowFailed
    • Type: boolean
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Default: false
  • auth
    • Type:
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
  • basicAuthPassword
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic: ✔️
    • Required:
  • basicAuthUser
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic: ✔️
    • Required:
  • connectTimeout
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Format: duration
  • connectionPoolIdleTimeout
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Default: 0
    • Format: duration
  • defaultCharset
    • Type: Charset
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Default: UTF-8
  • followRedirects
    • Type: boolean
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Default: true
  • logLevel
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Possible Values:
      • ALL
      • TRACE
      • DEBUG
      • INFO
      • WARN
      • ERROR
      • OFF
      • NOT_SPECIFIED
  • logs
    • Type: array
    • SubType: string
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
  • maxContentLength
    • Type: integer
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Default: 10485760
  • proxy
  • proxyAddress
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic: ✔️
    • Required:
  • proxyPassword
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic: ✔️
    • Required:
  • proxyPort
    • Type: integer
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
  • proxyType
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Default: DIRECT
    • Possible Values:
      • DIRECT
      • HTTP
      • SOCKS
  • proxyUsername
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic: ✔️
    • Required:
  • readIdleTimeout
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Default: 300
    • Format: duration
  • readTimeout
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
    • Default: 10
    • Format: duration
  • ssl
  • timeout

io.kestra.core.http.client.configurations.ProxyConfiguration

  • address
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic: ✔️
    • Required:
  • password
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic: ✔️
    • Required:
  • port
    • Type: integer
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:
  • username
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic: ✔️
    • Required:

io.kestra.core.http.client.configurations.SslOptions

  • insecureTrustAllCertificates
    • Type: boolean
    • Dynamic:
    • Required:

io.kestra.core.http.client.configurations.BearerAuthConfiguration

  • token
    • Type: string
    • Dynamic: ✔️
    • Required: