API Connector Tools

The API-Connector-Tools add-on includes Steps, which can be used to connect to almost any HTTP API (e.g. REST API or SOAP-web services).
This is especially handy if there is no Add-On or Step in Synesty Studio for an API or web service yet. This way you can still connect your supplier, ERP, PIM, Marketplace or other system with Synesty.

With these Steps you can address an API via URL (HTTP Request) and evaluate the responses (XML or JSON) yourself. This way API connections to any system can be realized, as long as they can be reached from the outside via HTTP. It is a bit more technical than using a ready-made Add-On, but it also gives you full control over all transferred data and fields.

Application examples

Access to HTTP-based REST APIs, GraphQL connectors or web services (also supports APIs with OAuth Authorization)
Reading and writing XML data such as. BMECat or openTRANS
Reading content from web sites by parsing HTML code (Web Scraping)
Conversion of API data to tables / spreadsheets such as CSV or Excel
Create or unpack compressed files (e.g. ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z archives)

An example

Imagine you have a spreadsheet with 100 articles. For each article you want to request or update the current stock via an API.
With the SpreadsheetURLDownloader step you can make one HTTP request per row. Request body and header can be built together individually for each API (APIs usually expect XML or JSON documents).
The API response, usually also XML or JSON can be processed further and combined with other Synesty Add-Ons.

Mostly you need the step APICall or SpreadsheetURLDownload in combination with the steps XMLReader or JSONReader to process the HTTP response.

Video - How can I connect a REST API with Synesty?

This tutorial playlist shows how to connect any REST API with JSON as data exchange format using Synesty base building blocks, if Synesty does not yet provide an add-on for this or an add-on does not yet have a suitable step.

What systems have customers connected to it?

Systems typically include APIs from third-party systems such as:

Product Information Management Systems (PIM) (e.g. Akeneo
ERP / enterprise resource planning (e.g. SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce)
Supplier, shipping and logistics systems (e.g. Paqato)
Finance and accounting (e.g. DATEV, Stotax)
E-commerce systems such as online stores, marketplaces, online marketing tools or data feeds for paid ads platforms

for which Synesty does not provide an own Add-On. Through this API-Connector tools this is no problem and the integration is still possible.

See how Microsoft Dynamics 365 was integrated with the help of Synesty in the following video of a case study.

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