scrape http target with json?

[alpiua]

Didn't find a way to scrape a remote target over http with json support.
Does it exist ?

[spencergilbert]

Not a as a source today, I've seen a few users on our discord using the lua transform to make http calls - though I'm not sure that would fit your usecase

[jszwedko]

We will also be releasing an exec source shortly which will allow arbitrary execution of programs where vector will read their stdout/stderr and produce events. That program could make HTTP requests.

[alpiua]

Not a as a source today, I've seen a few users on our discord using the lua transform to make http calls - though I'm not sure that would fit your usecase

Is it possible to see an example? Didn't check lua before.

[jszwedko]

I don't think that would work for your case @alpi-ua as we only support lua as a transform right now and you'd like to use it as a datasource.