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
