This tutorial will show you how to create your form endpoint with Form API. This will allow you to receive data from your forms and store it in a central location, making it easy to access and use.
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What Is A Form API?
With Form API, you can create a system where you can instantly gather submitted form data and manage it with an API. So, Form API allows you to use our platform to collect and manage data in a way that fits your needs. Our team has created a few example API integrations that you can use as a starting point.
What Are The Benefits Of Using Form API?
Form API can offer several benefits, including:
- Connecting multiple data sources and aggregating the data into a single view
- Capability to connect to data sources that would otherwise be inaccessible via a traditional database connection.
- Possibility of connecting to data sources located in various geographical locations.
- The ways to integrate data sources are more likely to be updated than a traditional database.
How To Use Form API?
The API is structured around REST. Our API uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs, accepts form-encoded request bodies, returns JSON-encoded responses, and uses predictable resource-oriented URLs.
First, obtain your API access key. You can sign up for a free subscription plan by visiting this page. Then, you can get your API access key in your dashboard to use the Form API.
All API requests must include a custom HTTP header called apikey. Each programming language’s implementation is unique. All of the samples are available on the documentation website.
There are various endpoints to make your project work as a fully-functional system.
- DELETE /form/{form_id} – Deletes a form
- DELETE /form/{form_id}/submission/{submission_id} – Deletes a form submission
- GET /form/{form_id} – Gets a form
- GET /forms – Gets all the forms for the current user
- POST /form – Creates a form
- PUT /form/{form_id} – Updates a form name
- PUT /form/{form_id}/result_page – Updates the result page for a form
As you can see, these are the available endpoints you can utilize in your project. Now we will start learning how to use these endpoints with Python scripts.
How To Integrate Form API In Your Python App?
Start by creating a new form and giving it a name:
It will generate a form and return its unique id and the URL for submission:
Now you can easily access the form you have created to gather information.
Notice the script just below the HTML form. It is there to generate a unique CSRF token for your form and protect you from spammers. Do not forget.
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import requests url = "https://api.apilayer.com/form_api/form/form_id/submission/submission_id" payload = {} headers= { "apikey": "API KEY HERE" } response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data = payload) status_code = response.status_code result = response.text |
You can check out all the examples in various programming languages on this official documentation page.
Furthermore, I would you to check out these articles where you can learn how to automate things with various powerful APIs:
- How to Build A Sports Media Website Using Node.js and Sports Data API
- How To Create A URL Shortener Application
- How To Turn Images Into Blurred Format – Pixelization
Why Should You Utilize Form API To Gather Data?
Overall, creating your form with the Form API by APILayer is a great way to increase the security and privacy of your data. By doing this, you can also ensure that only authorized users can access your data. In addition, using the Form API can also help you speed up the process of loading data into your database.
Head over now and get your free API access key!
