I'm feeling I've confused myself somewhat on this, and maybe I'm making it much more complicated than it need be. Probably confusing you along the way... :-)
I took the Curl command I mentioned above from another developer page, which is a customer-only page.
Going back to their example linked above, it says
"All API requests should use a base URL of: api.octopus.energy"
then
Authentication is required for most API requests. This is performed via HTTP Basic Auth.
Provide your API key as the basic auth username value. You do not need to provide a password, eg:
curl -u "$API_KEY:" api.octopus.energy/v1/accounts/
and then the actual function I need is a parameter (?terminology? - well, it's a GET Command)), as per here
developer.octopus.energy/docs/api/#list-consumption-for-a-meter
on which I want to use parameter of period_from and period_to.
So on this page curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html it seems that the GET command is a parameter of the Curl command, so I can run it all in one go in my command prompt.
Is that something I can do in PERL (which I've just installed)
I feel I am probably pushing beyond reasonableness in my request here, given the difficulty I am having getting my head round this. So please say so if I am.
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