Python-powered chat apps with Twilio and SendGrid Transcripts
Chapter: Course conclusion and review
Lecture: Review: Calling an API in Studio
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That Flask API endpoint we created. That was our end of the story. But over in Twilio studio, we need to connect our flow over there back to
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that API endpoint. In order to do that, we did a couple of interesting things. We added the make http request widget to our flow.
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And we told it we're going to do a post request over to our URL of type application/json. And then down here at the bottom,
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we put all the information we want. We've gathered up and we want to convey across to that end points with our customer
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with the number, and name and email, the cake with the topping and so on and even the price that we got from
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that PricingAPI. The other thing of note here is that we're using in ngrok. Remember, we did this all the way back to our Dev machine
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and we were able to set a breakpoint in PyCharm or whatever editor you're using
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set a breakpoint there and look at the code and inspected at this running as part of studio calling over to our api endpoint.
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That was super cool. How did that happen ngrock. In my example, I had to paid account and I was able to use cloudcity.ngrok.io.
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But in practice, you probably have some random GUI looking thing there, so make sure that's always up to date as you're working with your api and maybe
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restarting in ngrock, and it changes.