Hello everyone. I am a newbie to APIs & Integrations and I would like to learn the basic steps of API integrations. Any help is highly appreciated. Thank you.
Hey @RBalendra ,
I absolutely feel you! I can totally relate as I feel I’m a marketer first but still need to know what is possible with the API and how it all works together to help my clients effectively. Happy to give you some pointers.
For APIs in general, I can highly recommend this YouTube course by FreeCodeCamp. It’s easy to follow along for newbies like us and also has some practical exercises. It also highlights a great piece of software called Postman. You might see this later on in your journey when working through the HubSpot API docs, as you can import endpoints into Postman right from there. If you have no idea what I’m talking about now, don’t be afraid, as these things will bubble up at some point.
One of the other first things I suggest is creating a dev account and then a test account, with which you can do whatever you want and have no harming impact on anything important if you have HubSpot already at your company.
Other than that, the API docs are your best friend. You can test calls against the API endpoints right from there without writing a single line of code. Here is an example of a fellow community member creating custom objects with the docs. It’s very awesome. Shout out to auxilio.
If coding is something you would like to think about, I suggest looking at Python. I used an app called Mimo to get the basics and from there are all sorts of possibilities with Operations Hub and Custom Code Actions within HubSpot opened up for me personally.
Hope this gives you some pointers. Let me/us know if you get stuck along the way.
Cheers,
Chriso
Fantastic! Thank you so much @ChrisoKlepke for your help!