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Do you need REST API for Marketing Cloud?
The Marketing Cloud user must have the Installed Package | Administer permission. The REST API uses JSON request and response bodies and resource endpoints to support multi-channel use. All new Marketing Cloud technologies implement REST API.
How is the REST API used in Salesforce?
REST calls are synchronous, with timeout values of 120 for non-tracking operations and 300 seconds for tracking and data retrieve operations. The maximum payload of any call is four megabytes. Use the REST API for this functionality: The SOAP API uses SOAP envelopes to pass information between you and Marketing Cloud.
How long does it take to retrieve data from REST API?
All requests are synchronous and can contain up to 4 MB of information. Tracking information and other data-retrieve operations time out after 300 seconds. Other requests time out after 120 seconds. With that in mind, let’s take a look at what you can accomplish with the REST API across several Marketing Cloud apps.
How does a certificate manager work in the cloud?
Certificate Manager uses token-based IBM Cloud® Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication. To work with the Certificate Manager APIs, you need to provide a valid IAM token in each request to the service. You can generate an IAM token by first creating an IBM Cloud API key and then exchanging your API key for an IBM Cloud IAM token.
How often can I use the SOAP API?
The SOAP API uses SOAP envelopes to pass information between you and Marketing Cloud. We recommend a limit of no more than 2k per minute for SOAP calls. Support may request your SOAP envelope to troubleshoot issues.
How to create API requests and handle responses?
This document describes how to construct API requests and handle API responses from the Compute Engine API. It covers how to: Construct a request body. Determine the resource URIs necessary for a request. Handle API responses. Determine whether an API request succeeded. This document does not cover how to authorize to the API.
When to use curl to make an API request?
When you make an API request that requires a request body, like a POST , UPDATE, or PATCH request, the request body contains resource properties that you want to set in this request. For example, the following curl command makes a POST request to the Instances resource URI.