# Custom API calls

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/custom-api-calls/7108
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/custom-api-calls/7108 "2020-04-15T17:50:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![JoshuaRiley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/joshuariley/32/23639_2.png) [@JoshuaRiley](https://community.glideapps.com/u/JoshuaRiley)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/custom-api-calls/7108/1 "2020-04-15T17:50:00Z")

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What would make Glide so much more powerful is if we could use our own custom api links and have them called on clicking a button in the app.

So this would allow us not to be restricted to only working with Zapier.

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### Author: ![ugm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/ugm/32/530_2.png) [@ugm](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ugm)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/custom-api-calls/7108/2 "2020-04-16T01:20:31Z")

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@JoshuaRiley, I have put a similar suggestion in [feature staging](https://features.staging.glideapp.io%5D) it may be useful if you do that too.