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Hello Power Automate Community,

I'm currently working on a project that involves creating a Flow to automate an email categorization and distribution process. I'm new to Power Automate with APIs, so I'm hoping to find some guidance here.

The task at hand involves picking up categorized emails from an API and sending them to the corresponding Managers based on the category.

The main area where I need help is with the API integration, specifically setting up the HTTP request and handling the response. I understand that the specifics of the API will influence the setup, but at this point, I'm primarily looking for general guidance or best practices to get started.

For instance,
how do I appropriately set up the HTTP request within Power Automate?
How should I handle and parse the response to extract necessary data like the email content and category?
If the API returns multiple emails, how should I loop through them in the Flow?

If anyone could provide some advice, tips, or point me towards useful resources for handling such a scenario, I would greatly appreciate it. Any information would be helpful and would go a long way in helping me learn.

Thank you for your time and help!

Cheers
Angela
@RezaDorrani @ALIREZAALIABADI

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Building flows

Hi @Poma1

Basically you need the following:

1) Use HTTP action to query the API:

1.1) You need to know the exact URL and some parameters you may need.

1.1) You might need to add some security information (cliend id and client secret, for example)

2) Probably the results will be in JSON, so you need to parse them

3) Just before parsing the results, you should check the status of the HTTP call (200 means OK).

4) Once you parse the JSON results, you will have the information (list of emails in your case). You can loop through all the emails using an apply to each action.

I would recommend reading the following article: How to use an API with Power Automate - Forward Forever

Hope that helps!

Ferran

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