Subscribing to an API
You will find several API's and use-cases in the marketplaces of the communities. In order to connect to an API a number of steps will be required. The easiest are the subscription to an API. Some other steps are pure technical to establish a secure machine-to-machine connection to the subscribed API.
This article will help a company admin to subscribe to an API, without requiring technical knowledge of API's.
As a company admin, open the NxtPort portal and login with your account
Production: available as from 13/05/2025
Under "My Company" you will find submenu's, allowing you to view and subscribe to API's and use-cases, called "Products" which are part of the marketplaces of the communities you subscribed to
Under "My Communities" you will see the Products available for subscription
To subscribe to a Product/API, click on the "Request Subscription"button
Each API has an owner. Depending on the owner's choice, your subscription request can be approved automatically or manually. Once it is approved you will see the time and date of acceptance and a button "Details" that will bring you to the details required to connect to the API
In the Product Subscription screen, you will find the details to connect to the API. It provides you with the base URL, the possibility to copy your API subscription key and a button to bring you to the API swagger files ( hosted in our GitHub repository and opening a new browser window)
Click on "Copy Subscription key" to obtain the key. Please note you are not be able to see the key at that time, but it will be in memory to copy it directly in whatever system you might be using or a Notepad.
You can always return to the Product Subscription detail section to copy your subscription key again.