API Integrations in Python Blog


Systems Automation in Python

2024-12-02

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

SSH commands as API microservices

2024-11-25

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

2024-11-19

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

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