Pusher HTTP Get user_count

Question

What I am trying to do is the following

• Get a list of user_count for ALL PRESENCE channels. Using the following HTTP API call
• https://pusher.com/docs/channels/library_auth_reference/rest-api/#get-channels-fetch-info-for-multiple-channels

I am not sure if its me, or if their documentation is complicating or what the issue is but what I cannot figure out is how to build the GET request.

I am using Laravel and VueJS for this project (just for the sake of transparency) but if I could figure out how to create a manual CURL request to get the info, I could then build the code around it.

If someone could give me some guidance or even better give me an example CURL that grabs the data I would be forever grateful

Answer 1

You can scroll down and find this section where they mention the CURL request in an authentication example. They have also mentioned how to generate these hashes. In the general section they have mentioned that your API URL has your cluster name in it.

Since you mentioned VueJS, I'm assuming you'll be using it in the frontend, so, you could use the fetch() method like so -

const res = await fetch(`http://api-${cluster_name}.pusher.com/apps/[app_id]/channels?auth_key=<your_auth_key>&auth_timestamp=<auth_timestamp>&auth_version=1.0&auth_signature=<your_sign>`);

Since you are sending a GET request, I don't think you will need a body-md5 as a query parameter, which you'd need in case of a post request where you'll be sending JSON data in the body.

This is the first time I'm answering a question on stackoverflow, I really hope this helps :) Good day!