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Siobhan
Siobhan
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Has anyone piped any API data directly to Tableau?

Hi folks! Has anyone piped any API data directly to Tableau? I'm a bit out of my depth here and hoping to get some more info to share with some team members who have a bit more knowledge around this than I do.

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Siobhan
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Eric Knudsen
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How can I auth in python using a Collection ID and Collection token?

Hi all! Having trouble understanding how to auth in python using a Collection ID and Collection token. I don't see any example code in documentation. Anyone able to help?

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Siobhan
Siobhan
posted in API & Integrations
Is there a way to use the API to track the Zendesk Copy Link?

hi there! is there a way via API to tell how many times the "Z" button has been clicked (this is on cards from synced Zendesk collections.) ?

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Siobhan
Nathan Anderson
Nathan AndersonKnewbie
posted in API & Integrations
How can I use the API to move Cards from one Collection to another?

Hi everyone! :wave: My team and I are doing a big organizational overhaul of our Guru instance that is going to involve changing up our collections, redoing our naming conventions, and setting up a new tagging system to make everything more scalable. I'm working on setting everything up so we can do this via the API when we're ready and am ALMOST there, but am running into some difficulties moving a card from one collection to another (with the API). Here's the JSON I'm sending to the Cards endpoint: ```//create JSON let json = { "tags":tags, "collection":{"id":collectionId}, "content": content, "shareStatus":"TEAM", "preferredPhrase":cardName };``` `collectionId` is a string, and exists in Guru. I'm getting a 200 response back from my PUT request, but the collection assigned to the card remains unchanged (all of the other elements update as expected). Is this because the card is already assigned to a Collection and a Board? Thanks for any pointers!

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Nathan Anderson
murray
murrayKnewbie
posted in API & Integrations
Does anyone know if it's possible to create cards with an ExternalId?

Does anyone know if it's possible to create cards *via API* with an ExternalId? And then of course, update the same card in the future using that ExternalId? I'm trying to sync knowledge from another system but the file-based approach seems inefficient and will be much more difficult to implement...

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murray
Marcos Perez
Marcos Perez
posted in API & Integrations
Why can we see how many times a Card viewed and read in Guru but only views in the API?

Hi everyone! I have a quick question: In Guru we can see for a card how many times it was viewed and read, but the API shows only views, without this differentiation. Which is the difference?

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Dillon Head
Marcos Perez
Marcos Perez
posted in API & Integrations
How can I get all members in a group via the API?

Hello everyone! I know we can get the groups a member is in, but can't find the way to get all the members in a group via API, which is far more efficient. Is there anything I'm not finding in the API documentation?

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Mary Houston
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Anonymous
posted in API & Integrations
Has anyone used the API to do month over month card creation analysis?

Has anyone used the API to do MoM card creation analysis by chance? cc @leslie

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Duc Bui Minh
Duc Bui Minh
posted in API & Integrations
How can I use the API to reference a Card in another Collection?

Hi team, I am using the sync API. Is there any solutions to reference to a card in another collection? https://developer.getguru.com/docs/guru-sync-manual-api#referencing-other-cards-boards-board-groups-and-resources

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Mary Houston
Duc Bui Minh
Duc Bui Minh
posted in API & Integrations
How can I import Boards in order using the API?

Hi team, I am working with guru-sync-manual-api. Currently, I need to import boards in order. Is there any way to support for this problem?

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Duc Bui Minh
Kristin Fretz
Kristin FretzSmart Cookie
posted in API & Integrations
How can I leverage Guru's API to help streamline our new hire onboarding experience?

Hey all! My IT team is considering joining my rollout of Guru to streamline our new hire onboarding experience. We have Okta, JIRA, Confluence and random Slide decks, so my idea is to use Guru, JIRA, Okta and possibly a synced Confluence collection (until I can convince them to move off Confluence entirely so the full company uses Guru). They love Slack's use case that mentions Guru so if any customers or current Guru employees have best practices or can chat live with us, we'd love to know the extent of Guru's API. Thanks! :blush:

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Kristin Fretz
Dillon Head
Dillon HeadScholar
posted in API & Integrations
Is there a way for users to suspend verification requests whenever they update Cards?

Hey folks, I've seen this question asked here a couple of times and I also asked early on in our Guru implementation. Is there a way for users to suspend verification requests whenever they update cards? To my knowledge, there's currently no way to do this. I often need to make small changes to cards and I don't want to bother the verifier with what might be a simple formatting update or sentence rewrite. To get around this, you can use the API to impersonate those users and verify articles on their behalf. Assuming you're an admin (and your org is cool with you editing the content of others), you just generate a token for the verifier of the card and then post the card content using the token. This is only worth setting up if you make a lot of small changes to other users' cards, but just figured I'd mention here in case others had similar questions.

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Mary Houston
Kristin Fretz
Kristin FretzSmart Cookie
posted in API & Integrations
Is it possible to auto-create a templated Card when something changes on a Salesforce record?

Hello Guru! Is it possible to auto-create a Guru card (using a Guru template) when something changes on a Salesforce record? I'm curious if there is a way to automate a "new merchant onboarding" Guru card after an Opportunity field in Salesforce is updated to closed won. Appreciate any insights!

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Donovan Watts
Jonathan Aykroyd
Jonathan Aykroyd
posted in API & Integrations
Can I use the API to post new Guru Cards or new Knowledge Alerts in Discord?

Hi everyone :slightlysmilingface:, I hope y'all are having a great week so far. Our team is considering migrating part of their support operations to Discord (from Slack). I've been able to implement a Discord bot integration to handle searching guru cards, but I cannot find any functionality in the API that lets me listen to when *new cards* get created, or when *knowledge alerts* get sent out. Is there no way to do this using the current API? Our goal is to retain the most important functionality for us from the slack integration (namely searching and linking cards, setting up a new card feed and getting verify/knowledge alerts) when moving over to Discord. Is there any work around that I could use? Thanks in advance!

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Jonathan Aykroyd
Mary Houston
Mary HoustonSmart Cookie
posted in API & Integrations
How Jon Peck from Github built a migration tool from Github into Guru using the API

Happy :fallenleaf: Autumnal Equinox :fallenleaf: - Time to give gratitude and start fresh! In the spirit of fresh starts, why not start that custom sync project you have been wanting to do :eyes:? Jon Peck from GitHub recently shared with us how he built a *reusable migration tool from their Sales Enablement team's GitHub repository into Guru*. His initial MVP took *~2 days* and he also posted his Github to Guru action for the Guru Community to use! Since building this sync, Guru has given his team a single place where they can store and maintain all reference material relevant to their sales process. Learn more about Jon's project here. Do you have any external content sources that you want to sync into Guru but are not currently available via the Knowledge Sync feature? Are there any roadblocks in using Guru's API to build that sync for you and your team? Feel free to share in the thread!

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Mary Houston
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Ruairi MurphyKnewbie
posted in API & Integrations
Using the API to pull all Cards from Guru but getting a time out error

Hey folks, we're trying to leverage the API to pull all cards in our knowledge base as we're building a find&replace MVP. We're using the search endpoint with a blank query to list all cards but it appears to be timing out. It stops printing at 8952 cards and that figure doesn't appear to bear any significance. Would you be able to shed any light on why that might be the case? I'll thread the code for reference.

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Geoff Richardson
Geoff Richardson
posted in API & Integrations
Option to have the API response paging link as an element within body of response

Is there an option to have the API response Paging link as an element within the Body of the response, rather than within its header? I cannot access the response header from within Power BI (or more specifically, from within Power Query), so quite a lot of the APIs capabilities are unusable to me. 

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Mary Houston
kelly
kellyScholar
posted in API & Integrations
Is anyone using the API to sync JIRA into Guru?

Hey all! is anyone api-ing JIRA into their guru instance? We are looking to have a single source of truth in regards to product information!

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kelly
Katie Vermilyea
Katie VermilyeaSmart Cookie
posted in API & Integrations
Using Guru's API to feed a dev site into Guru - any tips?

:wave: Hey all! I'm trying to convince my Engineering and Product Teams that we should use the *Guru Manual API to feed our new Dev site into Guru.* Did anyone have any winning arguments that helped make the case? @klecornu shared some great examples with me yesterday, so I know a few of you have done it! Would love some additional pro tips.

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Katie Vermilyea
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Ruairi MurphyKnewbie
posted in API & Integrations
Questions about automating card verification when a user adds a card URL to a specific field in Zendesk

Hey Team :wave: I'm working with one of our devs to build out an MVP for automating card verification when a user adds a card URL to a specific field in Zendesk. It's built on Rails. We've a couple of questions we're hoping you could answer. We can't find any reference to the verifier endpoint in the API docs. - Would it be possible to get an example of a POST updating a cards verifier via the `https://api.getguru.com/api/v1/cards//verifiers/` endpoint? An example in Ruby would be amazing, but curl would be fine too. - What are the required fields for this request? - We're also wondering if it's possible to update the verification interval without also having to "update" the `preferredPhrase` or content by sending the same current value? Our previous MVP used the `https://api.getguru.com/api/v1/facts//extended` endpoint but we'd like to work around updating the title/content with every request. Can you recommend an alternative?

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Geoff Richardson
Geoff Richardson
posted in API & Integrations
Is it possible to get a list of all users who have modified a Card?

Another question about API responses. Does anyone know whether it's possible to get a list structure of ALL users who have modified a card, rather than just the record of the *last* person to modify it? I'm keen to understand the full audit trail of a card's history. Thank you!

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Geoff Richardson
Geoff Richardson
Geoff Richardson
posted in API & Integrations
Search API query not returning archived Card details

Hi team, I think that I have found a bug in the API. I am using the search/query with success in our code. I have noticed that it *doesn't* return any archived card details when we use the simple `q` query parameter. I know that there is another query parameter called `showArchived` which takes true or false. When I set this extra parameter to true, then it *only* returns archived cards: that's correct behavior. When I set it to false, it *only* returns non-archived cards: that correct behavior. However, when I *omit* the `showArchived` parameter, I believe that it should return BOTH archived and non-archived cards. Unfortunately, this is not the case. It does not return any archived cards. Please can you investigate? If this behavior is intentional, how am I supposed to return both archived and non-archived cards without making two separate API calls…? Thank you :slightlysmilingface:

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Geoff Richardson
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Ruairi MurphyKnewbie
posted in API & Integrations
Questions about using Guru's API to update a Card's verifier

Hey folks, first time caller long time fan :wave: We're in the process of adapting how one of our teams verifies content in Guru to more closely align with our KCS methodology. We've built an MVP where once a card has been added to a custom field in Zendesk and the ticket is submitted, we catch the hook, get the card ID from the Guru URL, and once it passes our validation, use PUT to update the card's verifier. We want to be able to set the verifier of the card as the ticket submitter, verify said card, and set its verification interval to 90 days. The MVP is functioning as expected but we've hit a roadblock with API credentials. The issue is that AFAIK we don't have a general or admin API token with read/write access. The collection API token would work for our use case, but they're read-only. As a result, while we can assign the card to the SME who submits the ticket, we can't set the verification status to trusted. Without the ability to do so its purpose is defeated. Any suggestion

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Mary Houston
kelly
kellyScholar
posted in API & Integrations
Workflow to add a task directly from Slack to create a Card with "XYZ" information?

hi - add a task directly from slack to create a card with XYZ information :tada:

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kelly
Ali Berman
Ali BermanScholar
posted in API & Integrations
How can I pipe unverified Cards into a Slack channel?

Hi! I have an API question! I want to set up a way to pipe super duper old & dusty unverified cards into a Slack channel using Workato. In theory I can do this if I can update a Google spreadsheet using API calls, but that's where I'm getting stuck. Right now, I use the Card Manager to look a set of parameters to pull it manually - but I'd like to take myself out of the process and operationalize this process! Has anyone done anything similar to this?

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Mary Houston

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