API calls from Excel (2024)

FAQs

Can Excel make API calls? ›

In this tutorial, though, we'll just show you the basics to make an API call and display the results in your Excel sheet. We use the collection endpoint to retrieve the complete periodic table. To get started, go to the Data ribbon, click the Get Data button, choose From Other Sources, and From Web.

An API is a 'bridge' through which one app obtains/sends information from/to another app. This means that you can load miscellaneous data from your source app to your Excel workbook using the REST API.

If you try to make more API calls than allowed, your requests may be throttled, which can slow down the processing. Adjust your code to respect the rate limits and spread the calls over a longer period if necessary. Also, consider implementing retries with exponential backoff for handling temporary issues with the API.

You can automate any API calls. E.g. tests to help QA continuously check a product's quality. Or you can simply create light orchestrations that involve several API calls to perform a particular task on a microservice backend.

Not always. API's are methods of communicating between softwares. An APIs that return JSON objects is RESTful API which is type of Web API. There are a lot of APIs for example Microsoft Windows API, HTML5 Web APIs e.t.c With respect to JSON, some APIs return XML (mostly SOAP architecture).

We use the fetch() function to make a POST request to the specified URL (https://api.example.com/users) with the request options. We handle the response using . then() and check if it's successful by accessing the response.

What is API key in Excel? ›

API keys let your Spreadsheet.com account exchange information with third-party data sources and applications. Spreadsheet.com allows you to generate API keys for two different use cases: connecting with the REST API, and connecting with Zapier.

There is no limit to amount of data that those APIs can return: the bigger query, the longer response time. Add $select= to the URL to return the data for UP TO 1 million rows. Use $top=N to return a sample of the first N rows.

An API owner will include a limit on the number of requests or amount of total data a client can consume. This limit is described as an API rate limit. An example of an API rate limit could be the total number of API calls per month or a set metric of calls or requests during another period of time.

API rate limiting is, in a nutshell, limiting access for people (and bots) to access the API based on the rules/policies set by the API's operator or owner. We can think of rate limiting as a form of both security and quality control. This is why rate limiting is integral for any API product's growth and scalability.

In Power Automate workflows you can call an API using two different ways: HTTP request or Custom Connector. After checking all the connectors, second question you should do: Is my API REST or SOAP? If your API is SOAP you must create a custom connect and you can't use the HTTP request task.

In the latter case, we can have the VBA code send a column of data (ISSN) to an API, pull records related to that data, and populate the other columns with the related metadata. If you don't have the Developer's tab in Excel, you need to use it so you can work with VBA.

What's the difference between VBA and API? VBA applications process from within the program shell. API applications process while the program shell is closed.