I am new in working with API’s and I’m trying to create a connection to an external API in Nintex Automation Cloud. The API I am trying to connect to is a Custom API. Is there a Nintex Cloud Xtension or a different way connect this API to Nintex Data Sources?
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Hello
Is the External API Cloud based or On-Premise?
If it is On-Premise you will need to install the Nintex Gateway on a server in your LAN.
To integrate with a custom API you need to create your own custom Xtension. 1st check the Connector Gallery (https://gallery.nintex.com/) to see if it has not been done already.
If not, you will need to get/create a OPEN API c2.0 specification, also called a SWAGGER definition. This Swagger File is used to create a Custom Xtension on your NAC tenant.
Nintex Help is an excellent resource when it comes to explaining how to create your own Xtension:
https://help.nintex.com/en-US/xtensions/Home.htm
For connecting to an external API in NAC, use the “Call a web service” action in the workflow. You may also have to add a “Query JSON” action to parse the results. If you want to retrieve the data from that API on a workflow start form, then you may want a custom Xtension. See the examples on this page --
Or you may also want to build an Xtension to create an available workflow action that returns results in a simpler form. For example, see the AccuWeather Forecast Xtension example on that page.
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Thank you both for your responses. I am going to try what you said and I have any more questions I’ll let you know.
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