API workflow question

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Aloha @Daniele and friends.

I know the api loop is still in dev but I had a question to see if it would possibly help to solve an idea I have, when it is released to the wild.

I have a website that resells vacation activities. When I log into their website using my username and password I can search and find specific activities filtered into a list by tags and categories etc. This is a wordpress driven site using custom post types and taxonomies, filters.

Trying to get my head around this api loop concept, will it allow me to enter an endpoint that contains an archive list of filtered activities along with my user iid and password such as:

https://partner.somelistsite.com/items?locSearch=Hawaii&ne_lat=22.37&ne_lng=-154.48&sw_lat=18.55&sw_lng=-160.53&search=Captain+Zodiac

And then scrape the content of each listing including the call to action links on the single cpt page

and then create a single cpt page in my website?

If @Daniele would like my credentials or more info on what I am trying to do, a private message would be preferred.

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Hey Chris,

The API Query Builder cannot scrape website content. You need a functional API in order to access data through this interface.

If it is another WordPress website, check whether the data is available in the WordPress REST API. If so, you can of course access it.

There are plenty of guides on the internet explaining how to use the WordPress REST API. :slightly_smiling_face: Its really easy :+1: