What is a Registered API?

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1. What is a Registered API?

Registered APIs are a new feature of the Globus Flows service.

Quoting from the page linked above:

Globus Flows provides secure, managed automation of complex workflows at scale. These automations, called flows, are series of actions that can perform common chores

Registered APIs are new type of action that a flow can perform. They allow users to define API routes and parameters which a flow may call directly.

For example, Globus Groups provides an API for getting information about a group. The API route looks like this:

GET /v2/groups/{group_id}

By registering this API with the Globus Flows service, you can then call it from within a flow.