Getting Started

Welcome to the Wallenius Wilhelmsen API Portal, here you can browse the available data products and try them out before building integrations around them. This page covers the different steps that you will take as you move from looking for a specific data set to building integrations towards one or multiple APIs.

Finding what you need

The first step is to start the process of identifying one or multiple APIs that cover your needs. All APIs are available to browse in the catalogue, which is accessible in the banner of the page. Every API has a swagger definition, which is a description of the API, detailing how a request is made to the API and the respective parameters that can be used, and the different statuses it returns and its respective data response payload, both for a successful call and a failed call.

Testing the API

When you have identified an API that is of interest you can move to the next step and subscribe to that API and give it a try. To do this you need a product, which is an entity that holds one or multiple APIs and provide access to these APIs, this product is tied to you and your application.

Once you have your product and that products hold a subscription to the API or APIs you have been looking at, your user has access to try these APIs out in the portal. There can be multiple subscribers to a product, so anyone in your team can be granted access to your product and automatically get the access to the API or APIs as well.

Building the integration

When you are ready to move on from testing in the portal and move over to implementing the actual integration you will need a set of credentials that are not bound to a user for your product. When you have that you are ready to start building!

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