Intro

0:00 and 99.9% of the uh examples and stuff like that that people are providing just are not really applicable to business use cases. So, in this video, I'm actually going to show you guys an applicable business use case, something very simple. We're going to customize some outreach just using uh available data from like a free API that I just found on the internet. I'm going to show you how to authenticate. I'm going to show you how to, you know, use request modules in make.com.

0:23 And basically, I'm just going to show you everything you actually need to know to use this productively. If you guys watch a lot of my videos, you're probably wondering where the hell I am and why my background looks like it was filmed on a potato. I'm just at a hotel here in the beautiful city of Buffalo in the beautiful state of New York just on some client work. I do shadowing and delegation and automation work as part of my day-to-day.

0:46 And so I figured I'd pick like a relevant example for you and just record this before it it left my brain. So if all that sounds good to you and if you're excited to dive into this as I am, then stay tuned and let's get into it. Okay, so first things first. What is an API? And why the hell is it when it every time that you Google this, you get a bunch of like matrix looking ass stuff where it's like APIs are brains that are embedded in the cloud, bro?

1:10 Well,