Call URL with keypress on Raspberry Pi
Here is scenario:
pushbutton is connected to Raspberry Pi GPIO pin. Whet button is pressed, R.pi calls remote URL.
This can be useful for many simple applications, like detecting and timestamping passes at certain location.
The R.pi should be up and running. Connect the pushbutton to free GPIO. In our example we connected the button to pin 11. The pin is configured with the pullup, which means the button must pull the GPIO pin to ground. Pin 12 on r.Pi model 2B (40 pin P1) is GND:
Now prepare some simple script on your fancy web browser, which will be called when someone presses the button. Here is example, which simply adds one line with time and date at the end of the file “log.txt” every time when file is loaded: