One of the more often overlooked features of the Infusionsoft application is the ability to integrate it with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

In layman's terms, APIs are used to make one program (or application) talk to another, run commands, and do pretty useful things. You can extend an application's functionality with an API, like handling Web Forms, Customer Registration Management, as well as additional features for shopping carts and more.

Infusionsoft supports the XML-RPC API. This is a very common, secure and reliable framework for interacting with Web applications.

You can learn a lot more about APIs on our Knowledge Base anytime for easy reference. Have a developer or a Web Genius? Send them the Zip file included there, and they can learn how to interact with Infusionsoft via the XML-RPC API.

Got any API questions? Ask them here in this forum, and I'll get our API Ninja (Justin) on over to help you overcome any obstacles with it.

~Joe

My webmaster is attempting to get the API set up on our system, however keeps getting the following error while trying to use the api.php...

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Didn't receive 200 OK from remote server. (HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently)
5
Didn't receive 200 OK from remote server. (HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently)
5
Didn't receive 200 OK from remote server. (HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently)

Here is the top code...

include("xmlrpc-2.2.1/lib/xmlrpc.inc");

#The client object will set up a connection to the server that can be re-used for
#later calls
#This was split from the URL http://marty.infusionsoft.com:80/api/xmlrpc
//$client = new xmlrpc_client("/api/xmlrpc", "marty.infusionsoft.com", 80);
$client = new xmlrpc_client("/hydrogen", "www.savefuel.ca");
#This will make it so we get back raw php types - they are easier to work with
$client->return_type = "phpvals";

Some help please? What extra info is required to assist us with this issue?

Thanks.

First, I admit that I might not be that awesome of an API Ninja as Justin on here; however, I think I have a hunch on why this is happening.

a 301 Permanently Moved means that the server is attempting to redirect Web traffic to another resource. In order to be PCI compliant (secure), one would need to ensure they are using HTTPS and port 443 -- instead of "http" and port 80.

I'll summon the API Ninjas on in here to have a look, but make sure you are using HTTPS for connection.

~Joe

If an API is created for some cool feature (lets say someone creates an API to sync the InfusionSoft calendar to Google Calendars), would this API be posted anyplace so other Infusion users could get the API and use it?

Thx Joe,
I am using http...I will have a look at using https, and let you know what happens.
Cheers.
Paul

KAnderson wrote:
If an API is created for some cool feature (lets say someone creates an API to sync the InfusionSoft calendar to Google Calendars), would this API be posted anyplace so other Infusion users could get the API and use it?



I will be posting applications I code on here from time to time.

OK, have upgraded the site to use SSL, and now the beginning coding looks like so...

#PHP examples for using the Infusion API. The library used above
#can be found at http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/

#This example will perform three functions:
# 1. Add a new contact record
# 2. Add the newly created contact to a group
# 3. Look up a list of all contacts that belong to that group

include("http://www.savefuel.ca/hydrogen/test_area/php/xmlrpc-2.2.1/lib/xmlrpc.inc");

#The client object will set up a connection to the server that can be re-used for
#later calls
#This was split from the URL http://marty.infusionsoft.com:80/api/xmlrpc
//$client = new xmlrpc_client("/api/xmlrpc", "marty.infusionsoft.com", 80);
$client = new xmlrpc_client("https://www.savefuel.ca/hydrogen");
#This will make it so we get back raw php types - they are easier to work with
$client->return_type = "phpvals";
return_type = "phpvals";

I STILL get the following...

5
Didn't receive 200 OK from remote server. (HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently)
5
Didn't receive 200 OK from remote server. (HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently)
5
Didn't receive 200 OK from remote server. (HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently)

PLEASE HELP!!

FYI - switch the port to 443 and specify https (as per the XML-RPC manual!)

ie the documentation/manual should read:

$client = new xmlrpc_client("/api/xmlrpc", marty.infusionsoft.com", 443, https);

cheers;

Nevermind... Fixed the problem.