How To Connect Api With WordPress - Full Guide

how to connect API with WordPress. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another video. I

hope you all are doing great and are having an amazing and absolutely incredible day

I bring you back with yet another video. And in this video, we're going to be talking about

an API and how we're going to allow ourselves to connect it with our WordPress in the easiest

most simplest way possible. So basically, connecting your API to your WordPress is pretty

simple. Okay, we're just going to be using a few different methods. Okay, and obviously

connecting an API comes into coding, okay, because API obviously is a code for any different

design that you can add into some other design. So let's say, you know, for example, I want

to add a chat GPT, you could say, API into my website. So chat GPT obviously has given

their API. So they have an API key, I'm going to choose any other API keys and just, you

know, add their API into my setting. And that should be good to go. But yeah, so to

add an API into our WordPress website, where you're going to do, first of all, you're going

to come over to plugins, okay, once you come over to plugins, over here, you're going to

write w p, get a p, okay, you're going to write that and you're going to click on Enter

nearest s connect external API is WP get API. So we're going to open this up. Now obviously

you can start seeing the details about this API down here. So connect WordPress to external

API's, send your data to API's and display API data using shortcode to template tag

connecting to API's has never been easier. You can see all these things easily send data

to any API, get data from unlimited third party rest API's format and display the return

data on your WordPress website using a shortcode or a template tag. WP API gets or supports

visually all authentication methods, okay, including API keys, bearer tokens, basic authentication, username, password, and OAuth 2.0, which is pretty good. And then they also

give you live examples for videos that you can connect to WordPress using external API

And you can also see the major feature so you can connect your WordPress website to

any of the API's unlimited API's are allowed. No coding by you is required. Like, obviously

you're just going to provide the API code. Obviously, that is a must. But apart from

that, no coding, then the display API data, you know, using a template tag or shortcode

is given, you can add query strings, headers and body parameters. That's the only like

line of code you want to do. So pretty easy, pretty simple. Now all you're going to do

is you're obviously going to make sure you have a business account. Now if you don't have a business account, you are going to need to upgrade to that. Because without a

business account, you will not be able to add any API, you know, or get a plugin. Now

once you have a business account, you're just going to add it or you know, add an API into

your WordPress. Once you've added an API, basically what's going to happen from there

is you're going to get it down in your plugins and tools. Once you get it down in your plugins

and tools, it's obviously going to ask you to set up so it asks you to add the details

of the APIs that you're using. And the endpoints that it will give will be set up in the next

step, you know, after you hit save. So what happens from there is it asks you three things

you know, it asks you the API name, unique ID and base URL. So API name is the name of

the API that you are connecting to, then there's unique ID, which is a unique ID for your API

So lowercase letters and underscores only are used. And then finally, there's base URL

So the base URL of the API is like, obviously, the base URL of the API that you're connecting

to. So yeah, basically, to get these things for, you know, any program, you're going to

go ahead with their thing. So to get this from an API, let's say I'm going to come here

to chat GPT. Okay, go ahead and chat GPT. I'm going to write API in front of it. Okay

so this chat GPT really popular thing, and let's say I want to chat bot in my website

So I'm going to go ahead to chat GPT API, and I want to, you know, copy it off. So here

we can see introducing chat GPT and whisper API is developer can now integrate chat GPT

and whisper models into their apps. So to get their API, they're going to come down

here, and you can start seeing their APIs. So it's pretty incredible, pretty easy. And

you can see all these different things that they've given you. So this is the chat GPT

API. Now, you know, chat GPT model family gives you token and here's the API. So it

gives you a model as a sequence of tokens, which is pretty incredible. So this is your

API code. Okay, so all you're going to do is you're just going to go ahead and copy

it off. Okay. And once someone copies that off, this is the response they get it with

the Python binding. So you're just going to copy it off. Once you copy it off. Yeah, basically

you're just going to come here. And when they ask you for the API name, you're going to

add the API name, your unique ID is going to be the key that is going to be provided

to you through open AI. So if you go into this over here, this API, you can go into

overview. Okay, you can choose their API platform and to choose their API platform, obviously

sign in with your accounts and everything. And yeah, you can see on chat GPT, you can

just use any of their API APIs from the input over here. Or you can even like this is just

a common example of chat GPT. You could use any software, let's say you want to connect

it to Google Maps or something like that. So you know, add the API name, which is obviously

chat GPT, then there's the unique ID that which is the unique key that they're going

to give you in the base URL, which is the URL website for the API. So I'm going to come

here and this is the URL website. So I'm just going to copy this link, go ahead and paste

it in the base URL. Once you've done all of that, you can start getting random quotes

as well or the API's. So after adding the base URL, it takes you to the actual, you

know, once you've saved everything, it creates one endpoint. And that basically creates different

template tags. Now, template tags are basically, you know, lines of code like WP get API, which

is WordPress get API, which is a code that WordPress generates. And moving on, they have

different methods and endpoints. So in the endpoint, in unique ID, there's obviously

a few things that you're going to need to add, so you know, JavaScript and all that

So all these necessary things need to be added. And you can, you know, create a results format

for those. And all of them obviously are going to be done using your basic WP get API

and WP get API obviously walks you through everything. And there's a unique ID for the

endpoint, the endpoint will be appended to the actual base URL. So you're going to click

on you know, get slash chat, GPT slash, you know, whatever your API name is. So chat GPT

in this case, that obviously there's the method. So request method for this endpoint, obviously

you're going to use the get method, which is basically going to just going to get the API and the get method is all in capital, which is a code in JavaScript. So it gets

things and the results format, result format is obviously going to be the one that they

were telling you. So in chat, you would use case it was Python, you're going to go with

Python build. Once you do that, it gives you cache a time, which is the time in seconds

that the cache requests everything. And once you say all of that, it's going to basically

give you the whole code and everything. And it's even going to give you the URL. And it's

going to give you the response that it gives you. Now, if the response is identical to

the one that we saw in chat, GPT, you know that we sign products over here, then you

did the right thing. And you know, you're good to go with whatever API you've made

But if the response is incorrect, you've done something incorrect, and just make sure to go ahead and do it all again. And everything should work fine. But yeah, that was basically

about it for when it comes to discussing how you're going to connect an API with WordPress

That's pretty much about it for this video. So thank you for watching till the end and I'll see all of you next time. Goodbye