🌐 Please help us test: API Column and Webhook action

[Mark]

Here’s an app that uses the API column:

API test

The endpoint is implemented here:

Glitch

[Darren_Murphy]

I wonder if all these people bemoaning their lack of knowledge/experience of API’s are aware that every time they use a service like Cloudinary or quickcharts.io, then they are interacting with an API

[Robert_Petitto]

exactly. I can’t wait to play around with this after the girls go to bed…I’ll let you know what I discover!

[Lucas_Pires]

For sure! lol

[Lucas_Pires]

Can’t click on text entry… seems greyed.

[Darren_Murphy]

I’ll be testing it as well. Curious to see how it deals with the Golf API that I use

[Lisa]

Same for me.

[Mark]

Sorry, fixed.

[Robert_Petitto]

Ugh—hate not knowing how to implement a new feature straight out of the box—quick question, @Mark, are we able to use ready made APIs or do we have to build the endpoints ourselves? Is there a public, ready-made API that you know of that we can use for testing—not one custom built with Glitch?

[Pablo_books]

This API column is pretty sick!

However, I don’t understand what server.js is.

Hopefully, @JackVaughan can make a video soon…

[Darren_Murphy]

@Robert_Petitto

Is there a public, ready-made API that you know of that we can use for testing—not one custom built with Glitch?

Big long list of free public API’s here

Edit: But none of them will work (see reply from @Mark below)

[Mark]

@Darren_Murphy

Big long list of free public API’s here

These do not work directly with the API column. The API column expects a very specific interface. To be able to access any API we’d basically have to build a little Postman inside Glide. I’m sure we’ll do that eventually, but not anytime soon. In the mean time you’ll have to write a Yes Code piece that interfaces between Glide and whichever service you want to connect.

[Drearystate]

Sorry I’m late to the party, this looks like its going to be alot of fun.

Heres 50 of the best free api’s of the year

Top 50 Most Popular APIs (Updated for 2020) | RapidAPI

And a huge list of public api’s

A collective list of APIs. Build.

[Mark]

@Pablo_books

In other words, when you make an API column, you can’t turn that column into any other column?

That’s how all computed columns work. You can’t change a Template column into a Math column, either. Maybe I misunderstand your question?

[Drearystate]

I’m so glad thi is coming out after the christmas contest. We would have apps with so many apis in them we wouldn’t know what to do. Remember that payment companies like SQUARE do not charge to use their API’s for all of you looking for different payment methods.

[Darren_Murphy]

ah, gotcha.

[Robert_Petitto]

@Mark

These do not work with the API column. The API column expects a very specific interface.

This is where I was getting hung up, then. Going to need to learn the basics of API I guess before I can leverage this column.

[Steven]

@Robert_Petitto I am in the same boat as you. If you find any good resources, please share. I will do the same!

[Tuttografica]

Great, now to work to learn about API,
I was just beginning to understand MYSQL integration

[Drearystate]

Ok, so, I’m in the staging area and I’m looking for API and I see a damn FLOATING BUTTON, when we getiin some floaty buttons?