Hook up your own application with The Machine's functionality.

item.get

This method let you get the item with the given id.

You call this method with the following URL:

http://machine_id.invoicemachine.com/api/item.get

Parameters

Parameters are the data you will pass with the call.

api_token

Your secret identifier. You find your API Token under Account Overview in the Account section.

Rules: Required

id

The ID of the item.

Rules: Required.

Return Values

This is the result that will be passed back to you when you have sent a call.

Success
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<method request="item.get">
    <item>
        <id>204420</id>
        <description>Office Combo Kit</description>
        <qty>1</qty>
        <kind>product</kind>
        <price>349.00</price>
        <total>349.00</total>
    </item>
</method>
Error

Error: No data passed.

No data was passed to the method.

Error: API Token is invalid.

The API Token parameter is missing or is incorrectly entered.

Error: ID is invalid.

The ID parameter is missing or is incorrectly entered.

Example

The example below is strictly a demonstration of the method and it's parameters. Methods should never be posted from a HTML form. They should be posted directly from your server script.

<form action="http://machine_id.invoicemachine.com/api/item.get" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="api_token" value="c86cea54c71sbb05a5f8297bed641944">
    <input type="hidden" name="id" value="204420">
</form>

Overview