Lesson Summary
Follow along as we get an introduction to APIs, the Marketo API, and Postman as we cover:
- What APIs are and why they are important
- Making your first GET and POST requests in Postman
- Making your first GET and POST requests in Python
- Making your first GET and POST requests in Zapier
Upon completing this lesson you will then know how to test any of the 100+ API requests in the Marketo Postman collection and then embed these requests in Python code or Zapier so that you can automate repetitive processes and streamline your workflows 
Expected time to complete: 60mins
Lesson Resources
The resources below will be covered in the following lesson sections. There is no need to look at these ahead of time, I am including them here so that once you complete the course you can always come back here to access all the lesson resources in one place 
- Marketo API Quick-Start Guide
- Download Postman
- Download the Marketo API Postman Collection
- Importing a collection in Postman
- The Marketo REST API docs
- Authentication Documentation
- Creating an API User & Service
- Creating an Environment & Variables in Postman
- Create/Update program request documentation
- Trinket Online Python compiler