# Insert Data to Glide via API **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [May 2, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/insert-data-to-glide-via-api/26314 "2021-05-02T21:49:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/insert-data-to-glide-via-api/26314/6 "2021-05-03T08:26:48Z")
> [@david](#): > > Please say more. What’s your use case? How would you like this to work? @david Related to this, I would like to see an option where I could post data to Glide via a webhook. I’m currently working on a project where I’m integrating with a medical screening device. This is an IOT device, and provides the following via an API: - temperature - heart rate - respiratory rate - thermal image - photograph (with eventual facial recognition) - QR code decode Right now, I am pulling the above data from the cloud API every minute into a Google Sheet. This means that there is typically a 3-5 minute delay between the scan and the data hitting the app. Being able to call the API directly from Glide or (even better) being able to post to a Glide webhook would make this almost instantaneous. Why is this important to me? Amongst other things, I want to use this device as part of an attendance system, ie: - Employee arrives at the office - Employee has an app with a QR code that has their employee ID embedded - Employee stands in front of the device and shows their QR code - Device scans employee and their QR code - Device sends data back to the cloud - Cloud posts webhook to Glide - Employee sees result in their app almost immediately - (and back end system registers that employee has arrived at work) I already have the above scenario up and running, it’s just the last few steps that are the missing piece in the puzzle. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/insert-data-to-glide-via-api/26314)._