# Two Http\_poller inputs with access token
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-http-poller-inputs-with-access-token/298939
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 7, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-http-poller-inputs-with-access-token/298939 "2022-03-07T08:23:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@rodri.gz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rodri.gz)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-http-poller-inputs-with-access-token/298939/1 "2022-03-07T08:23:11Z")
Hello!
I am trying to get data from an api that needs to be accessed using a token that we get from another api.
How can I pass this access token to get the data from the other api?
I had thought of doing something similar to this but I don't know if it's entirely correct.
```auto
input {
http_poller {
urls => {
token => "https://url-token.com/api/token"
}
add_field => { "token" => "%{message}" }
type => "Token-API"
}
http_poller {
urls => {
url-api-data => {
method => get
cacert => "path/cert.crt"
user => "x"
password => "y"
url => "https:/url.com/api"
headers => {
"Content-Type" => "application/json"
"Authorization" => "Bearer %{token}"
}
}
}
request_timeout => 60
schedule => { every => "5s"}
codec => "json"
metadata_target => "http_poller_metadata"
type => "Data-API"
}
}
```
Is there any better way to do it?
I don't know if in this case there could be data duplication/loss or if it will actually catch the token correctly.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2022, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-http-poller-inputs-with-access-token/298939/2 "2022-03-07T12:01:50Z")
> [@rodri.gz](#):
>
> I am trying to get data from an api that needs to be accessed using a token that we get from another api.
You cannot do that using http\_poller. See [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-variable-base-parameter-in-http-poller-logstash-input-plugin/298621/2) for an example and [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-generate-oauth2-token-and-use-rest-api-to-pull-logs-from-cloud/166624/2) for more discussion.
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### Author:  [@rodri.gz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rodri.gz)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-http-poller-inputs-with-access-token/298939/3 "2022-03-07T12:25:55Z")
I don't quite understand why it doesn't work. Is it because the input would not return the token correctly or because the http\_poller does not support tokens?
If I change the first input to get the token to an 'exec' input that curls the url and stores this token in a field and uses it in the poller header, would it work?
or should i keep the token at the input with hhtp\_poller and then with http filter connect to the other api to keep the data?
I'm not very good with ruby and I don't quite understand the example you gave me
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-http-poller-inputs-with-access-token/298939/4 "2022-03-07T12:31:23Z")
The http\_poller input is initialized before any events are created, so it cannot reference fields from them.
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### Author:  [@rodri.gz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rodri.gz)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-http-poller-inputs-with-access-token/298939/5 "2022-03-07T13:54:40Z")
> [@Badger](#):
>
> The http\_poller input is initialized before any events are created, so it cannot reference fields from them.
I'm not understanding it well, I'm sorry for my level of English.
I understand that with the input http\_poller, I get the token and with http filter I get the data of interest from the api?
for example:
```auto
input {
http_poller {
urls => {
token => "https://url-toke.com/api/token"
}
type => "Token-API"
}
}
filter {
http {
url => "api/with/data"
verb => "GET"
target_body => "field"
headers {
"Authorization" => "Bearer %{message}"
}
}
}
output{
elasticsearch{}
}
```
Could you send me a link with some complete example of http filter?
thank you!
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-http-poller-inputs-with-access-token/298939/6 "2022-03-07T14:37:22Z")
> [@rodri.gz](#):
>
> Could you send me a link with some complete example of http filter?
I do not have one.
The schedule option on the http\_poller option is required.
You may be able to use the http\_poller to get the token.
The http filter will only get called when an event goes through the pipeline. That will happen each time the http\_poller is triggered. If you do not want to call the http\_poller input once for every call to the http filter then you must store the token, using code similar to what I shared a link to.
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### Author:  [@rodri.gz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rodri.gz)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-http-poller-inputs-with-access-token/298939/7 "2022-03-07T14:52:56Z")
> [@Badger](#):
>
> I do not have one.
>
> The schedule option on the http\_poller option is required.
>
> You may be able to use the http\_poller to get the token.
>
> The http filter will only get called when an event goes through the pipeline. That will happen each time the http\_poller is triggered. If you do not want to call the http\_poller input once for every call to the http filter then you must store the token, using code similar to what I shared a link to.
i think that the token will be a random one everytime i conect to the api.
I think I'm starting to understand...
I understand that if I want to obtain the data I must perform the http\_poller to obtain the token, once the token is obtained it is stored in the indicated field ( http\_poller\_token\_metadata) , if there is event the http filter is activated and It store the data in the indicated field ( filed-with-data) that will later be indexed in elastic .
Is that so? the data is actually fetched by the http filter? I did not understand well that the filter function is like an input
```auto
input {
http_poller {
urls => {
token-url=> {
method => get
cacert => "/path/x.cer"
user => "user"
password => "pass"
url => "http://api-url.com/token"
}
}
request_timeout => 60
schedule => { every => "5s"}
metadata_target => "http_poller_token_metadata"
}
}
filter {
http {
url => "api/with/data"
verb => "GET"
target_body => "filed-with-data"
headers {
"Authorization" => "Bearer %{http_poller_token_metadata}"
}
}
}
output{
elasticsearch{}
}
```
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-http-poller-inputs-with-access-token/298939/8 "2022-03-07T17:51:03Z")
> [@rodri.gz](#):
>
> Is that so? the data is actually fetched by the http filter?
That is correct.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-http-poller-inputs-with-access-token/298939/9 "2022-04-04T17:51:52Z")
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