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Follow these few simple steps to create your first emite IPaaS Integration and retrieve data from a Wikipedia API:

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Instructions

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Login:

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Login into your emite IPaaS Tenant using the username and password provided.

If you do not have a login URL, username or password, please reach out to your emite account team to enable IPaaS for your organization.

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Select your Tenant:

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Select your Tenant using the drop down selector and click ‘Next’.

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Create an Integration:

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Click on ‘Create Integration’ to create a new Integration.

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Name your Integration:

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Enter ‘Wikipedia Integration’ into the ‘Integration Name’ field and click ‘Create’.

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Create a new Empty Action:

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Click on ‘Create Action’ and select ‘Empty Action’.

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Name the Action:

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Enter ‘Search WikipediaSearchWikipedia’ into the ‘Name’ field.

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Configure your actionAction:

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Select Method ‘GET’.

Enter the following URL into the ‘URL’ field: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/search/page?q={{searchTerm}}&limit=10

Click on the ‘Add More Parameters’ button.

Add a parameter with a Key ‘searchTerm’ and Value ‘Earth’.

Click ‘Create’.

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Receive success message:

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After receiving a success message, click ‘Update’.

If you receive an error, please double-check the previous steps.

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Select your field mappings:

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Click the drop down arrow next to ‘Retrieve all available fields from API response body.

Select the description, excerpt, id and title fields.

Click ‘Import’.

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Success Receive success message:

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After receiving a success message, click ‘OK’.

If you receive an error, please double-check the previous steps.

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Save and test your actionAction:

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Click ‘Save’ and then click ‘Test’.

If you receive an error, please double-check the previous steps.

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What to do next?

  • You can try adjusting your search term parameter, back in the Request Parameters Command section, then re-save and re-test your Action to see what other Wikipedia data you can ingest into IPaaS.

  • You can try building integrations to some other Wikipedia API’s: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API (Wikipedia API’s are easy to use because they are publicly accessible and require no authentication)You can try applying various rules and transformations to your ingested data. Please refer to: emite IPaaS Rules and emite IPaaS User InterfaceTransformations

  • You can try saving the retrieved data in a connected data store (ElasticSearch, OpenSearch) in order to then visualize within emite. If you do not have a connected data store, please reach out to your emite account team to enable emite IPaaS for your organization.

  • You can try building integrations to other Wikipedia API’s: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API (Wikipedia API’s are easy to use because they are publicly accessible and require no authentication)

  • You can try referencing a secondary Action from this primary Action. Please refer to: emite IPaaS Referenced Actions

  • You can try publishing a schedule to have your integration constantly retrieve new and updated recordsdata: emite IPaaS User Interface

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