Softr's New REST API Integration Tutorial - Connect Any Data Source 🚀

[@belou2361]

Hi JJ. This is not an update of the year. This is an update of the century! With that said, this video scratches only the top of the surface. This topic is complicated and will probably require a series of videos to warm the users to this feature. More details on transformers. More details on POST/PATCH/DELETE methods that would insert/update/delete records. By the way the transformers concept is great. I wonder if something similar would be applicable to regular list item fields on dynamic blocks, so that we could finally re-format field content natively in Softr instead of doing it in the source (like Airtable formulas).

[@Softr]

Responded to you on our forum 😃 So glad you love it though! We are working on an easier way to format data with our native data sources.

[@peterkacandes5905]

You used only get operations. Can you also do post? I need to put information in first in order to get information out. For instance, put an address in, get information out eg from a solar design app.

[@Softr]

Yes, you can use our Call API action for POSTing data! That's on the client side. This rest API is for pulling data in.

[@dpaudiovisual1698]

So there is no way to create more records and update them?

[@Softr]

@@dpaudiovisual1698 You can use our Call API actions to Create and Update data.

[@svenschmidchen9873]

If I use this features I want to use it dynamically. You worked with hardcoded values for the properties. Can you also work with variables instead? Like a form Integration or somethin like that?

[@Softr]

You can use variables from the loggedin user but that's the extent of it at the moment.

[@j.c-mtl1150]

Men , the part of the tranformer part its really missing or lack of more detailed info.

[@Softr]

Hi! Maybe this resource could be valuable to you? hellosambhavi.com/integrate-anything-unlocking-softrs-power-with-rest-apis

[@FelipeMartinStuven]

Hi, I'm getting an error when I preview or publish my app, but not when I'm building the app. I configured the data source with a ClickUp endpoint, getting a task successfully.

[@Softr]

Sorry to hear about this. It would be best if you contact our support so they can see what's going wrong in your application.

[@dpaudiovisual1698]

hello, is not clear to me how to pull all records from the database in the schema. It only shows 3 fields from the table metadata. but in the video is not clear how you get those.

[@Softr]

Sorry - do you mind clarifying? "3 fields from the table meta data"?

[@FrederikLamote]

What I don't see yet is why you would connect the API to Softr and not to Airtable where you can perform certain actions/manipulations with the data retrieved from the API

[@Softr]

This is for bringing data into Softr. You might be thinking of our "Call API" action which posts data somewhere, which you would most likely want to do follow up automations for. Hope this helps to clarify

[@Supra-Nova]

Hello, how to use the transformer please? you copy paste script and you do not give us more information ^^

[@Softr]

Here is a copy of the transformer code that we used! return response.props.map(property => { return { id: property.zpid, address: property.address, estimate_price: property.price ? `$${property.price.toLocaleString()}` : property.zestimate ? `$${property.zestimate.toLocaleString()}` : "N/A", // Format price or zestimate as currency detail_url: `www.zillow.com${property.detailUrl}`, bedrooms: property.bedrooms, bathrooms: property.bathrooms, country: property.country, image_url: property.imgSrc }; });

[@Softr]

Here's a guide that was recently released on this as well: hellosambhavi.com/integrate-anything-unlocking-softrs-power-with-rest-apis

[@069dievorwahljetztwirdbrut9]

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