# Examples
This folder contains example scripts that can be used
to make calls to the [Wistia API](https://wistia.com/support/developers).
To start out with, you'll need to create an *access token*
as mentioned in the [Getting Started](https://wistia.com/support/developers/data-api#creating-and-managing-access-tokens)
guide.
After that, you will need to ensure that the **WISTIA_API_TOKEN**
env variable is properly set.
*On Mac/Linux*, this would be like:
```shell
❯❯ export WISTIA_API_TOKEN='MY-TOKEN'
```
*On Windows*, that would instead take the following form:
```shell
❯❯ $env:WISTIA_API_TOKEN = 'MY-TOKEN'
```
Once that is done, you should be able to use
any of the examples to make sample calls to the Wistia
API.
## Quickstart
[cargo-rx]: https://github.com/rnag/cargo-rx
Install my crate [cargo-rx], which abstracts away `cargo run --example`.
This provides a single `rx` command.
```shell
❯❯ cargo install cargo-rx
```
Now start out by cloning the GitHub project:
```shell
❯❯ git clone https://github.com/rnag/rust-wistia.git
```
Then, simply `cd` into the project folder:
```shell
❯❯ cd rust-wistia
```
From here, you can use `rx` to build and run
any of the examples individually.
In particular, here's a simple example
of uploading a sample file to a default project on Wistia:
```shell
❯❯ rx upload_file
```
If you run the command without any arguments, you can select
from the list of available examples:
```shell
❯❯ rx
```
To pass arguments to a script, you can include them after the `--`.
For example, here's an example of passing arguments to the `upload_url` script,
which uploads a media file using a [publicly-accessible](https://gist.github.com/jsturgis/3b19447b304616f18657?permalink_comment_id=3448015#gistcomment-3448015)
URL link:
```shell
❯❯ rx upload_url -- \
-n "My Video Name" \
-d "Test <i>description</i>"
```