Read data from the web with Webhook

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I made a little function to get some values from an API. It returns a 0 or 1 based on success of failure (like a pro!). It’s based on the ESP board (Wemos) board, so I’m not really sure how to make it for Ethernet, but the principle will be the same I think. The function below also does a little parsing, but you can probably figure that out ;). It fills a variable (array) with each line of text retrieved from the URL/textfile/callback/however you want to call it.

char server[] = "api.sunrise-sunset.org";
WiFiClient client;

bool getrawdata()
{  
  if(debug) { Serial.println("Disconnecting Blynk"); }
  Blynk.disconnect(); // Disconnect Blynk, cause API call has to be made 

  // Put current date in for retrieving correct date
  char currentDateBuffer[12];
  sprintf(currentDateBuffer,"%04u-%02u-%02u ", year(currentTime), month(currentTime), day(currentTime) );

  delay(750);
  
  // Make request http://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=36.7201600&lng=-4.4203400&date=2016-08-25 (with variable data of course)
  if (client.connect(server, 80)) 
  {
    if(debug) { Serial.println("Connecting to server ..."); }
    client.print("GET /json?lat=53.097001&lng=6.054036&date=");
    client.print(currentDateBuffer);
    client.println(" HTTP/1.1");
    client.println("Host: api.sunrise-sunset.org");
    client.println("Accept: text/html");
    client.println("Connection: close");
    client.println();
    
    if(debug) { Serial.println("Connected to server"); }
    
    delay(750);

    // Read all characters into one big, noisy array full of stuff (contents[])
    if(debug) { Serial.println("Now reading data into temp var"); }
    
    int i=0;
    String contents[15];
    String inputString = "";
    
    inputString.reserve(200);
    
    while (client.available())
    {
      char c = client.read();
      inputString += c;
       
      if (c == '\n') 
      {
        inputString.trim(); // Remove dumbass whitespaces and too much CR, LF etc.
        if(debug) { Serial.print(i); }
        if(debug) { Serial.print(": Received non-useless data, processing: "); }
        if(debug) { Serial.println(inputString); }
        contents[i] = inputString;
        inputString = "";
        i++;
      }
    }

    if(contents[0] == "HTTP/1.1 200 OK")
    {
      if(debug) { Serial.println(contents[0]); }
      if(debug) { Serial.println("Stopping client"); }
      client.stop();

      // Result set to this var
      useFullData = contents[11];
      
      if(debug) { Serial.println("Connecting Blynk"); }
      Blynk.connect();
      
      return 1;  
    }
    else
    {
      if(debug) { Serial.print("Error received: "); }
      if(debug) { Serial.println(contents[0]); }

      return 0;
    }
  }
}
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