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How to use the Joomla Web Services API?

23 September 2022

How to use external data in your Joomla 5 website? Or how to make available data via your Joomla 5 website to external websites or programs?

An Application Programming Interface is a connection between computers, programs or websites.
How can you make use of external APIs in your Joomla website?

New since Joomla 4 is the core Webservices API that you can use to connect your site from external websites/applications.
How can you use the Joomla 4 and Joomla 5 core Web Services API?

Peter talks about APIs and discusses some use cases. He shows how you could make use of external Web Services API of Joomla 5 with curl or some php code.

Presentation done at

Joomladagen 2025

3 October 2025
Utrecht, Netherlands

Joomladay DACH 2022

23 September 2022
Bad Hersfeld, Germany

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