Enthused by my experience of Retool of late (developing an internal app) - I wanted to have a shot at a personal project. But, I am not a developer........ so I need a little steer in the right direction.
I am on an hourly electricity tariff at home. And I have an electric car.
I've found a way to access the car via an API, and I have found the hourly tariff rates in an Energy API.
I wanted to create a little app that will only charge the car when hourly tarrifs are below certain amount.
I've got as far as getting my API pulling the correct data (using GET - to get the tariff rates) - but, it just comes back as a raw xml file. I'm sure this is normal and standard - but, as mentioned, I'm not really a developer - so I wanted to ask......where should I be looking to get some guidance on how to then format this into a useable set /table of data? What should I search for?
As always, appreciate any guidance - many thanks!
Neil
Woah cool use case @maillme! We have a feature request on file to build in better support for xml responses. I'll post back here if we're able to fulfill that request.
In the meantime, this is doable with some Javascript code.