API Integrations in Python Blog


SSH commands as API microservices

2024-05-20

This is a quick guide on how to turn SSH commands into a REST API service. The use-case may be remote administration of devices or equipment that does not offer a REST interface or making sure that access to SSH commands is restricted to selected external REST-based API clients only. Read more

IMAP and OAuth2 Integrations with Microsoft 365

2024-05-13

Microsoft 365 requires for all IMAP connections to use OAuth2. This can be challenging to configure in server-side automation and orchestration processes so Zato offers an automated that lets you access emails without requiring you to get into low-level OAuth2 details. Read more

What is an API gateway?

2024-05-06

In this article, we are going to use Zato in its capacity as a multi-protocol Python API gateway - we will integrate a few popular technologies, accepting requests sent over protocols commonly used in frontend systems, enriching and passing them to backend systems and returning responses to the API clients using their preferred data formats. Read more

API Testing in Pure English

2024-04-29

Do you have 20 minutes to learn how to test APIs in pure English, without any programming needed? Great, read on for the details. Read more

Enterprise Python: Integrating with Salesforce

2024-04-22

Salesforce connections are one of the newest additions to Zato 3.2, allowing you to look up and manage Salesforce records and other business data. To showcase it, the article will create a sample Salesforce marketing campaign in a way that does not require the usage of anything else except for basic REST APIs combined with plain Python objects, such as dicts. Read more

Service-oriented API task scheduling

2024-04-15

An integral part of Zato, its scalable, service-oriented scheduler makes it is possible to execute high-level API integration processes as background tasks. The scheduler runs periodic jobs which in turn trigger services and services are what is used to integrate systems. Read more

Integrating with Jira APIs

2024-04-08

Continuing in the series of articles about newest cloud connections in Zato 3.2, this episode covers Atlassian Jira from the perspective of invoking its APIs to build integrations between Jira and other systems. Read more

Systems Automation in Python

2024-03-25

Did you know you can use Python as an integration platform for your airport systems? It's Open Source too. Read more

Airport integrations in Python

2024-02-20

Did you know you can use Python as an integration platform for your airport systems? It's Open Source too. Read more

How to correctly integrate APIs in Python

2024-01-22

Understanding how to effectively integrate various systems and APIs is crucial. Yet, without a dedicated integration platform, the result will be brittle point-to-point integrations that never lead to good outcomes. This article highlights the need for a strategic approach to integrations, emphasizing the pitfalls of doing it without the correct architecture in place. Read more