1. Informer 5 API How to get connected and start integrating
Brad Leupen | Entrinsik Inc. | February 12, 2018

2. Overview
Basic Concepts
How To Connect
Examples!

3. Basic Concepts
API – Application Programming Interface. Services that allow you to access the application logic directly.
REST – REpresentational State Transfer (a web-based API)
Authentication – Verifying you are who you say you are
Authorization – Verifying you can do what you want to do
Access Token – A preauthenticated hall pass to do a specific thing in Informer

4. REST REST is just nouns and verbs The nouns are URLs
Collections of things: /api/datasets
Or individual items: /api/datasets/admin:northwind-orders
The verbs are HTTP Methods and there are really just four to worry about:
GET – reads an item or items
PUT – updates an item
DELETE – removes an item
POST – creates an item or performs an action

5. Access Tokens View and generate them from your profile page
Shortcuts to create specific types of tokens appear throughout the application
Guard your tokens (especially full API tokens)
Consider restricting access to certain hosts

6. Accessing the API
View (and try!) all API endpoints using our API documentation at /documentation
All visual routes are organized under the /v namespace
Paste your API token into the token parameter.
Postman is an excellent tool to help create REST queries

7. Example 1 The Embedded Chart

8. Example 2 The Embedded Dashboard

9. Example 3 The On-Demand Chart

10. Example 4 The Mapping Suite Query

11. Example 5 The On-Demand Dataset

12. Example 6 Accessing Users