How to get a response from the Kinopoisk server?

Question

API

I want to write a movie search application. I found the Kinopoisk api, but I don’t really understand how to get a response from the server and how to display any information. The documentation site says

curl -X GET "https://kinopoiskapiunofficial.tech/api/v2.1/films/300" -H "accept: application/json" -H "X-API-KEY: 71c5dd47-2ab2-40d4-bb00-4974097af5b6"

In my code I write

var key = "71c5dd47-2ab2-40d4-bb00-4974097af5b6";
            var request = WebRequest.Create("https://kinopoiskapiunofficial.tech/api/v2.1/films/300");
            request.ContentType = "application/json";
            request.Headers["X-API-KEY"] =  key;
            request.Method = "POST";
            textBox1.Text = Convert.ToString(request.GetResponse());

But when I try to display something, I get a 403 error. It looks like I can't log in to the site with a token and send a request, because when I try to enter a URL in the browser, I get a 401 Unauthorized error. I don’t really understand what I’m doing wrong, so I’m asking for help or maybe there are some articles about this.

Answer 1

Change method to get

var key = "71c5dd47-2ab2-40d4-bb00-4974097af5b6";
            var request = WebRequest.Create("https://kinopoiskapiunofficial.tech/api/v2.1/films/300");
            request.ContentType = "application/json";
            request.Headers["X-API-KEY"] = key;
            request.Method = "GET";
            using (var stream  = request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()){
                List<byte> buff = new List<byte>();
                while (true){
                    int b = stream.ReadByte();
                    if(b != -1)
                        buff.Add((byte) b);
                    else
                        break;
                }
              textBox1.Text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buff.ToArray());
            }

or

using (var stream = new StreamReader(request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()))
                 textBox1.Text = = stream.ReadToEnd();