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HTTP: Understanding API Documentation - Determining your action/trigger API endpoint

Created by: Adam Goh

Modified on: Wed, May 31, 2017 at 1:16 PM

Getting data out of your application

How to determine what is the endpoint of the API to get the right data

Check API Documentations
All API Documentations always provide the endpoint URL that you need to know for performing a certain actions. This API documentation can usually be referred to as API Reference, and actions are usually sorted out based on objects.


API Endpoint

An API Endpoint is a link that Workato can make a request to for getting a specific type of data. Here's an example of Asana's API :

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This is an example endpoint that creates a task. The first part is the HTTP Method that Workato should post to the link. The second part would be where should that method goes to. 


Note that the endpoint mentioned is the last part of an URL, whereby the whole URL would include the API link as well, which in this case, would be api.asana.com

With the given above example, a HTTP call to create a task in Asana would look like this : 


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To learn more about other available HTTP Methods such as GET, UPDATE, PUT, and more, check out this link to learn more.

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