Overview
An overview of the Circle Developer platform
Last updated
An overview of the Circle Developer platform
Last updated
Circle provides a powerful suite of APIs to developers to build automations, run migrations, bring data into your own data warehouse, or natively integrate community features into your own website or app.
Requests are admin-authenticated, which means the API can only be used to build administrative tooling and automations.
Available to customers on our Business plan and above, our Headless offering is designed for communities to integrate Circle features into their own website or app, like discussions, feed, notifications, events, and more.
Headless consists of three components:
Available to customers on our Business plan and above, our is designed for community admins to build automations, migration scripts, and administrative integrations.
: A server-side API with endpoints for building your own member-side experiences in your app or website. Unlike the admin API, requests are member-authenticated via the member-specific JWT tokens you'll generate with the . This means every API request is made on behalf of a signed in member on your website or app, allowing you to write your own client-side code for integrating posts, comments, events, notifications, and more into your website or app.
: A server-side API to authenticate your website or app’s signed in members with the Member API using a JWT token. Optionally, you can use the for Node.js to get a head-start with your Node application.
Available to customers on our Plus Platform plan only, the is a special API which lets your data team integrate your community's event stream data into your own warehouse via an ETL integration with a tool like or similar.
If you have general questions or want to share your creations with the developer community, please check out our .
If you have API feedback for our engineering team, to reach out to us.
If you're new to Circle, we recommend checking out the .
