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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Connecting to an Appian API</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/integrations/22988/connecting-to-an-appian-api</link><description>I&amp;#39;ve made an API in Appian, but am having the hardest time understanding how exactly one connects to it externally. 
 According to the documentation: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/21.4/Web_API_Authentication.html 
 I should be able to connect to</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Connecting to an Appian API</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/89149?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:22:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:da4030d9-f0fb-48c2-a3d5-95c3139eeca3</guid><dc:creator>Marco</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Presumably putting the service user group into the API&amp;#39;s security settings takes care of that requirement, right? I don&amp;#39;t need to do something like reference the user directly.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At any rate, I&amp;#39;ve done all of those things and it still doesn&amp;#39;t seem to connect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Connecting to an Appian API</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/89130?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2021 07:18:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:a88a1f12-fb77-4ae3-9711-6b448cf9c3df</guid><dc:creator>Stefan Helzle</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;If you created a service user, put it into the service user group and created the API key, you also need to make sure that this user is considered in the security settings of your API.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Connecting to an Appian API</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/89124?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2021 06:45:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:09777501-6435-496b-b7e8-21e02c805bb9</guid><dc:creator>Tanvir Sarkar</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;create a basic user &amp;amp; provide access to your application &amp;amp; API.&lt;br /&gt;After that from where you are calling the api use basic authentication. &amp;amp; provide the user name &amp;amp; password of the basic user. It should work, its working for me when I try to call my appian API from Postman&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>