= API Method: StartActionByGet (deprecated)

[WARNING]
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`StartActionByGet` is **deprecated** and will be removed in a future version of OliveTin. Use xref:api/method_StartAction.adoc[StartAction] instead.

Despite its name, this method no longer supports `GET` requests. The OliveTin 2k style of putting the action ID in the URL (eg: `GET /api/StartActionByGet/pingGithub`) returns `404` in OliveTin 3k, and is not coming back.
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== Migrating to `StartAction`

`StartActionByGet` takes only an `actionId`, and returns an Execution Tracking ID. `StartAction` does the same with `bindingId` - for a normal action, the binding ID is the same as the action `id` from your `config.yaml` (see xref:api/start_action.adoc#api-ids[Action IDs vs Binding IDs]).

.Before (deprecated)
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user@host: curl http://olivetin.example.com:1337/api/StartActionByGet --json '{"actionId": "pingGithub"}'
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.After
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user@host: curl http://olivetin.example.com:1337/api/StartAction --json '{"bindingId": "pingGithub"}'
{"executionTrackingId":"ff7d6f13-af8f-4ebe-8174-ad4cc7197b45"}
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