API Integrations in Python Blog


Web scraping as an API service

2024-11-13

In systems-to-systems integrations, there comes an inevitable time when we have to employ some kind of a web scraping tool to integrate with a particular application. Despite its not being our first choice, it is good to know what to use at such a time - in this article, I provide a gentle introduction to my favorite tool of this kind, called Playwright. Read more

Meaningful automation in Python

2024-11-04

An introduction to meaningful automation, integrations, interoperability with Zato and service-oriented thinking in Python. Read more

Salesforce API integrations and connected apps

2024-10-28

This instalment in a series of articles about API integrations with Salesforce covers connected apps - how to create them and how to obtain their credentials needed to exchange REST messages with Salesforce. Read more

HL7 FHIR Security with Basic Auth, OAuth and SSL/TLS

2024-10-21

An explanation of how and when to use Basic Auth, OAuth and SSL/TLS security definitions in HL7 FHIR connections. Read more

What is an API gateway?

2024-10-14

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

2024-10-07

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

2024-09-30

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

Systems Automation in Python

2024-09-25

How to automate systems in Python and how the Zato integration platform differs from a network automation tool, how to start using it, along with a couple of examples of integrations with Office 365 and Jira. Read more

Smart IoT integrations with Akenza and Python

2024-09-16

Building a comprehensive ecosystem unlocking the full potential of IoT connectivity requires seamless automation of a vast number of IoT technologies, and Akenza emerges as a powerful ally in the endeavour. In this blog article, I explore the combination of Akenza and Python to open new avenues for intelligent, real-time IoT integrations and monitoring. Read more

Service-oriented API task scheduling

2024-09-09

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