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Alteryx Designer Cookbook

You're reading from   Alteryx Designer Cookbook Over 60 recipes to transform your data into insights and take your productivity to a new level

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804615089
Length 740 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alberto Guisande Alberto Guisande
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Inputting Data from Files 2. Chapter 2: Working with Databases FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Preparing Data 4. Chapter 4: Transforming Data 5. Chapter 5: Data Parsing 6. Chapter 6: Grouping Data 7. Chapter 7: Blending and Merging Datasets 8. Chapter 8: Aggregating Data 9. Chapter 9: Dynamic Operations 10. Chapter 10: Macros and Apps 11. Chapter 11: Downloads, APIs, and Web Services 12. Chapter 12: Developer Tools 13. Chapter 13: Reporting with Alteryx 14. Chapter 14: Outputting Data 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Downloads, APIs, and Web Services

Working with data doesn’t only include handling in-house or cloud data sources. In today’s world, the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) is becoming almost a necessity.

A lot of data lies in the cloud only accessible via API calls, and some of that data may be useful to us to enrich our local data sources or to acquire additional details about what is being analyzed, and sometimes even for fun.

Alteryx has a very powerful tool to access APIs—the Download tool, which allows us to connect to any URI, including an API, a web service (a type of API), and so on.

This chapter covers the following recipes:

  • Managing APIs’ Extensible Markup Language (XML) responses
  • Parsing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
  • Getting paged results from APIs (Iterative Macros)

But before starting to consume them, let’s review some basic terminology involving APIs, as follows:

  • API: A software...
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