Introduction to the Joomla API with Marc Dechèvre - 👀 WMW 184

In this live stream Marc Dechèvre guides us in an introduction to the Joomla API and shows us some examples of how to use it - including how to import content into a Joomla site from a CSV file in Google sheets.

A big shoutout to the king of the Joomla API - Alexandre Elisè!

Here is the linl to Marc's presentation so you can follow along ► https://slides.woluweb.be/api/api.html

Some Key Timestamps

00:00:00 - Countdown
00:00:58 - Beginning introduction
00:01:30 - Joomla Help For Hire - tim@cybersalt.com
00:01:36 - Visit our Channel Sponsor, mySites.guru
00:03:09 - What is an API?
00:07:33 - How to Create / Update / import Joomla Article(s)
00:14:16 - How to Import bulk articles from Google sheet or Excel with example from Joomla website
00:17:08 - How to create a new Joomla user, what is a Super User and its powers, and insight about Joomla API token
00:22:26 - How to use Joomla API and its Basic terminologies
00:23:14 - How to create New article and how to prepare, script and post a new article in Joomla (API)
00:25:58 - Understanding Joomla Framework and two ways of coding
00:27:31 - Best Joomla API advice for Beginners (one-page script)
00:29:15 - Using Visual Studio free and its substitute copy paste on Word Notepad
00:30:24 - How to customize and Prepare the Joomla API Post Script
00:32:03 - How to execute your Joomla API script
00:35:52 - Update Joomla articles with the Joomla and How to Prepare a patch script
00:37:19 - How to Execute your Joomla API script
00:39:35 - Playing with Custom Fields and the Joomla API
00:42:25 - How to Adapt the Joomla API Patch script and How to edit api-patch patch script
00:46:42 - How to Fetch Joomla articles with the Joomla API Script and how to prepare the GET script
00:48:28 - Bonus Select Another Category with the Joomla API
00:49:25 - Only get Published articles with the Joomla API
00:52:08 - How to Delete Joomla Articles with the Joomla API and create your DELETE script on website
00:54:28 - How to launch any of the Joomla API scripts automatically
00:57:15 - How to Create a custom HTML Joomla Module in the Backend
00:58:03 - Joomla’s New Feature Task scheduler and how to add a cron task, Create your own task, or select among the given task type
01:01:01 - How to Keep the Control of your Joomla API script and guard it from unusual flooding
01:06:01 - How to Change the Joomla API Token
01:07:24 - How to Import and update articles directly from Google sheet using the Joomla API
01:09:42 - Joomla CFI Custom Fields
01:16:20 - How to prepare Google Sheets Script using “Github”
01:12:45 - How to share a Google sheet by publishing on the Web with URL Link or using CSV File
01:25:25 - Joomla Custom Fields Advance feature
01:29:58 - Other smart features: Smart Script for different aspects
01:32:19 - Joomla Advanced Custom fields with Examples
01:33:58 - How to Adapt the Google Sheet
01:34:55 - Adapt the Joomla API script
01:38:58 - A quick introduction to import and update articles directly from Airtable using the Joomla API
01:40:55 - Thank you closing remarks

Notes:

API application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software.

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a text-based data format that is used to store and transfer data

A comma-separated values (CSV) is a file is a delimited text file that uses a comma to separate values

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