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Working with APIs in Power Automate Desktop

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Working with APIs in Power Automate Desktop

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- [Instructor] In order to make better and faster automations, we can also make API calls with Microsoft Power Automate Desktop. By making API calls, it is going to save us precious steps in creating different actions that we might have to use to integrate different GUI components. In this process right here, we are going to make a call to an API and get the latest Bitcoin price from that API call and that table. To work with APIs in Microsoft Power Automate desktop, we will go to the HTTP actions. In here we have a few different actions. To create a simple API request, we're going to use the Invoke web service. Inside of the invoke web service, we're going to give it a API endpoint to which it is going to connect. We are going to be connecting via the GET, but we can also do a POST request, CONNECT, HEAD and so on. We are also going to be working right now with JSON files. So there is different possibilities of working with different files like XML and so on. We can set our custom…

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