Open up existing tools?

Hello all! Do we have the ability to open up existing tools (like Download) so we can see what is going on underneath the hood? We have some proxy issues and need to create our own method using Curl, but also want to leverage some of the existing functions in the Download tool.

Thank you!

@TashaA

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TashaA

Hey @DataPrepChad,

The code for the engine of many of our tools is compiled, such as the Download Tool, and you won't be able to view it.

Might I suggest creating the request you want, maybe in Postman, exporting it to cURL code, and then using the Run Command tool to execute. You could even wrap that up into a macro for a "download tool" - esque macro.

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TashaA

Hey @DataPrepChad,

The code for the engine of many of our tools is compiled, such as the Download Tool, and you won't be able to view it.

LordNeilLord

Hey @TashaA

Do you know of any good blogs on using cURL in the run command tool?

If seen this offered as a solution a few times but not any explanation on how to utilise the run command and cURL together

DataPrepChad

@TashaA, gotcha, and we were kind of going a similar route but wanted to see if we could reuse and update portions, specifically for auto proxy configs. On to the Idea Center, thank you!

jrobiso2

I would still like to rip into tools such as Download to see how it does the "Encode URL" stuff, to better make a DECODE URL tool !!

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