Implementing a simple API or API key into App Inventor 2

[Myles Ross]

Hello, fairly new to app development (for a school project) and just enough info in Java and Html to get by, I was wondering if there if there is a way to implement outside API's, and API functions into my app in App inventor 2. An example is this one https://www.mashape.com/imagesearcher/camfind.

Our app is a web search app. I would like to know if there is a way to take the Image recognition API above (i've already payed for my 500 request and have my API keys), have it search an image I take though the camera component in the app, send the image to the database as said in the coding there, have it send back the recognized result for that image 

(In the exmaple form of : status": "completed",

"name": "black spider orange body" ),

 

And place that "black spider orange body" in the Web search text bar.

Of course all those functions involving the API are all handled internally, within the actual code lines the API gives you ,wicth are: 

curl -X POST --include 'https://camfind.p.mashape.com/image_requests' \ -H 'X-Mashape-Key: Insert Key here' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \ -H 'Accept: application/json' \ -d 'focus[x]=480' \ -d 'focus[y]=640' \ -d 'image_request[altitude]=27.912109375' \ -d 'image_request[language]=en' \ -d 'image_request[latitude]=35.8714220766008' \ -d 'image_request[locale]=en_US' \ -d 'image_request[longitude]=14.3583203002251' \ -d 'image_request[remote_image_url]=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Mashape_logo.png'

What i'm wondering is how to actually this into App inventor and the App itself. I've heard this would be done through the use of the 

"TinyDb", as it actually does have "Key" text bar, other place say it's the "TinyWebDb", and other have said I have to directly integrate the code above into the app somehow, then place in the Key the API gives me.

Could someone please clarify how to do this? Thank you very much.

[Taifun]

How to work with the web component and an API by Stephen

Taifun

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Trying to push the limits of App Inventor! Snippets and Tutorials from Pura Vida Apps by Taifun.                

[Stephen Zipprich]

Myles, check out the example Taifun gave you, and let me know if you need help understanding it.  I'll try to help you as best I can.