Getting Started with emite IPaaS
Follow these few simple steps to create your first emite IPaaS Integration and retrieve data from a Wikipedia API:
# | Step | Example Screenshot | Instructions |
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1 | Login: | 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. | |
2 | Select your Tenant: | Select your Tenant using the drop down selector and click ‘Next’. | |
3 | Create an Integration: | Click on ‘Create Integration’ to create a new Integration. | |
4 | Name your Integration: | Enter ‘Wikipedia Integration’ into the ‘Integration Name’ field and click ‘Create’. | |
5 | Create a new Empty Action: | Click on ‘Create Action’ and select ‘Empty Action’. | |
6 | Name the Action: | Enter ‘SearchWikipedia’ into the ‘Name’ field. | |
7 | Configure your Action: | 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’. | |
8 | Receive success message: | After receiving a success message, click ‘Update’. If you receive an error, please double-check the previous steps. | |
9 | Select your field mappings: | 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’. | |
10 | Receive success message: | After receiving a success message, click ‘OK’. If you receive an error, please double-check the previous steps. | |
11 | Save and test your Action: | Click ‘Save’ and then click ‘Test’. If you receive an error, please double-check the previous steps. |
Congratulations on successfully creating your first emite IPaaS Integration! You have configured emite IPaaS to connect to Wikipedia’s API and retrieve information about the 10 top pages relating to your search term.
What to do next?
You can try adjusting your search term parameter, back in the Command section, then re-save and re-test your Action to see what other Wikipedia data you can ingest into IPaaS.
You can try applying various rules and transformations to your ingested data. Please refer to: emite IPaaS Rules and emite IPaaS Transformations
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: API:REST API - MediaWiki (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 data: emite IPaaS User Interface