API: The interface between Skyfish and other applications
An Application Programming Interface — an ‘API’ — is an interface for a software program that enables it to communicate with other programs and exchange information.
Skyfish’s API is therefore a bridge between Skyfish and your existing applications and services. It lets them integrate and interact together efficiently, speeding up your work processes.
Developers can use APIs to integrate functions, data, and services from other applications into their existing ones, to create new solutions or extend existing applications.
Skyfish API: Customize individually, integrate smoothly
By integrating your existing set of applications with Skyfish using the Skyfish API, you can speed up your work by enabling your applications to exchange their data with each other.
Everything you can do on Skyfish in the web interface or mobile app can be done through the API. Every Skyfish feature is available, from uploading media content, to organizing files, managing metadata, or sharing, deleting, and editing content.
The Skyfish API also lets developers customize their own applications’ user interfaces when they interact with Skyfish. That gives them the flexibility to accommodate the specific requirements of their organization’s users with a customized experience.
For more detailed technical information, feel free to visit our developer website. There, you will find all the resources you need to create a custom integration between your system and Skyfish.
Endless possibilities: use the full power of all your systems
The Skyfish API enables a wide range of software applications to work together, increasing the ways you can integrate your systems.
The Skyfish API lets you export media content, such as images and videos, directly from the Skyfish Cloud into your CMS, without having to separately and manually download and upload everything.
You can also use the API to integrate Skyfish into desktop applications like PowerPoint or Word, using plugins like Templafy, to give you direct access to your media when you’re creating presentations and documents. This supercharges your work processes, saving you hours of busywork.
Moreover, the API allows you to integrate Skyfish into your intranet. This helps you improve collaboration among your teams. It also increases productivity, by making it easy for your employees to directly import media content from Skyfish into your internal communications.
Metadata such as tags or copyright information for your Skyfish files can also be imported, managed and searched for via the API. This lets you use your existing applications to find anything you want in your secure Skyfish storage.
Lastly, you can use the API to link Skyfish with Colourbox, and combine the best of both platforms. Using the Skyfish API, you can directly access your Colourbox downloads and use them frictionlessly in your projects.
How to set up the Skyfish API
It takes only a few steps to set up the API and ensure that your data is exchanged smoothly between your different systems.
First, we provide you an API key.
You use the API key to identify and authorize whichever of your applications should connect to the Skyfish API. Each of your applications that uses the Skyfish API needs its own API key.
You share your API key with your organization’s developers, and they integrate Skyfish with your existing software programs.
Our friendly team will assist you throughout the setup process. We’ll ensure that your developers receive all the necessary resources to use the API successfully. If you have any questions, or need further assistance integrating or using the API, you can easily contact our technical department directly.