# Ingesting and digesting API best practice
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ingesting-and-digesting-api-best-practice/53966
**Category:** General
**Created:** [18 November 2021 19:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ingesting-and-digesting-api-best-practice/53966 "2021-11-18T19:53:40Z")
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### Author:  [@jmorris644](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jmorris644)
#### Post date: [18 November 2021 19:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ingesting-and-digesting-api-best-practice/53966/1 "2021-11-18T19:53:41Z")
It is looking like I will need to start working with a number of APIs. I have not worked with APIs with NR. I was just looking for some best practices. The API interfaces will have to do both reads and updates.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [18 November 2021 20:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ingesting-and-digesting-api-best-practice/53966/2 "2021-11-18T20:54:46Z")
Do you mean you need to call APIs _from_ node red, or you wish to implement an API _in_ node red?
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### Author:  [@jmorris644](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jmorris644)
#### Post date: [18 November 2021 21:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ingesting-and-digesting-api-best-practice/53966/3 "2021-11-18T21:19:27Z")
Thanks. I need to call APIs. Basically, I need to create a set of connectors between multiple 3rd party APIs.
I am thinking that I need to make some "pull" requests form a 3rd party API, store the data, do some data mapping, and then "push" that data to another 3rd party API.
I did find this which looks a tad interesting [https://www.openrpa.dk/](https://www.openrpa.dk/)
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [18 November 2021 21:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ingesting-and-digesting-api-best-practice/53966/4 "2021-11-18T21:35:34Z")
It depends on what sort of APIs they are. If they are http then you can use the http nodes. [Node-RED Cookbook : Node-RED](https://cookbook.nodered.org/#http-requests)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [17 January 2022 21:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ingesting-and-digesting-api-best-practice/53966/5 "2022-01-17T21:35:47Z")
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