Generating MD5 hash for Marvel API

[mrjimmyp]

Hi, all. I’m trying to use Scriptable to query the Marvel Comics API, but I can’t find a decent example of how to construct that call. Showing you my code probably won’t help at all Does anyone know where I can find a good example of turning my public and private keys into an md5 hash for calling their API.
Thanks in advance,
JP

[sylumer]

Try the suggestion here:

Recommendation for md5?

Today I discovered that the md5 implementation that I copied from the net and put in Scriptable’s lib folder does not handle the € sign correctly. It gives a different hash than most online generators. Worse: the API that I use refuses signatures for text with a € sign in it (probably because the md5 calculation is wrong). Any tips for an md5 library/implementation that I can use in Scriptable? EDIT: “Zibri”'s solution on Stack Overflow seems to work for me. Still recommendations (or md5 supp…

[mrjimmyp]

Thanks for the response. I have followed that thread but never found a concrete example of working code. Even Marvel’s example (Authorizing and Signing Requests) uses “1” as an example of a timestamp (?!), so I’m scratching my head even more than usual. But I’ll keep digging and post anything good that I find.