logstash : basic http request to a web api - logstash

Question

I am a newbie in logstash and i just want to make a basic http get to a simple api and display result in console
my conf file named "api.conf" contain :
input {
http {
url => 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/albums'
}
}
output {
stdout { codec => rubydebug }
}
and i launch it from logstash folder i have just dowloaded and have not changed thanks a windos cmd command:
C:\Users\username\Desktop\logstash-6.2.2>.\bin\logstash.bat -f .\api.conf
it returning n error in console:
Failed to execute action
{:action=>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline_id:main,
:exception=>"LogStash::ConfigurationError", :message=>"Something is
wrong with your configuration.",
:backtrace=>["C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/config/mixin.rb:89:in
config_init'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/inputs/base.rb:62:in
initialize'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/plugins/plugin_factory.rb:89:in
plugin'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:112:in
plugin'", "(eval):8:in <eval>'", "org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:994:in
eval'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:84:in
initialize'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:169:in
initialize'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline_action/create.rb:40:in
execute'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:315:in
block in converge_state'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:141:in
with_pipelines'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:312:in
block in converge_state'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1734:in
each'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:299:in
converge_state'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:166:in
block in converge_state_and_update'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:141:in
with_pipelines'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:164:in
converge_state_and_update'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:90:in
execute'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:348:in
block in execute'",
"C:/Users/username/Desktop/logstash-6.2.2/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/stud-0.0.23/lib/stud/task.rb:24:in
block in initialize'"]}
Do you know what I am dig wrong and how make it working?

Answer 1

For pulling web rest api, the correct input plug-in is http_poller
input {
http_poller {
urls => {
test1 => "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/albums"
}
request_timeout => 60
# Supports "cron", "every", "at" and "in" schedules by rufus scheduler
schedule => { cron => "* * * * * UTC"}
codec => "json"
# A hash of request metadata info (timing, response headers, etc.) will be sent here
metadata_target => "http_poller_metadata"
}
}
output {
stdout {
codec => rubydebug
}
}