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Hi - this may seem very basic but I've been running into a dead end for so long I'm ready to pop. Any help is appreciated.

I'm just trying to get some response from a simple call to my Kodi 16 install - ie GetMovies. I'm trying this from the Ubuntu instance that Kodi is installed on via:

wget -qO- http://MyServerIP:8080/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies", "id": 1}

I'm getting the error:

{"error":{"code":-32700,"message":"Parse error."},"id":null,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}

I've tried countless other things and am wondering if I'm not using this kind of call correctly? I'm looking for any way to get any information from command-line in linux.

So - in case anyone else is searching I'll answer. wget didn't work, at least for me (it was given as a solution in another thread on this site). curl worked - specifically, for this task:

at the linux prompt run:

curl -s --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies", "id": 1}' -H 'content-type: application/json;' http://192.168.xx.xx:8080/jsonrpc

and if you have a username/password:

curl -u username:password -s --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies", "id": 1}' -H 'content-type: application/json;' http://192.168.xx.xx:8080/jsonrpc

replacing the 192.168.xx.xx with appropriate IP, the port with appropriate port, and you should get output. Phew... that took too long.