httpie github api call gets 404 Not Found only when run from crontab

Question

(ETA httpie in subject and tags, as it seems like it would be an issue with httpie's content being different in the corn context.)

I'm at a loss as to how to troubleshoot this further.

I'm using OAuth credentials to send a github API call with httpie. The call returns the expected response when I run it from the command line, but in a script called from cron it fails with a 404 "not found" response, which the API docs indicate is likely an authentication issue.

The call looks like this:

/usr/local/bin/http --auth joeuser:xxxx-AuthToken-xxxx https://github.ourplace.net/api/v3/user/orgs

I can't find anything obvious in the github api documentation that indicates what might be missing from the impoverished cron environment, or something like that, to cause the problem. I can paste the same call at the command prompt and get the expected list of organizations.

Any ideas, or troubleshooting suggestions?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Looks like I needed to use the --ignore-stdin option to http when using http in a cron job, that fixed the problem.