Overview
An overview of the Circle Developer platform
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An overview of the Circle Developer platform
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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.
Available to customers on our Business plan and above, our Admin API is designed for community admins to build automations, migration scripts, and administrative integrations.
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:
Member API: A server-side API with endpoints for building your own member-side experiences in your app or website. See endpoints Unlike the admin API, requests are member-authenticated via the member-specific JWT tokens you'll generate with the Auth API. 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.
Auth API: A server-side API to authenticate your website or app’s signed in members with the Member API using a JWT token. See endpoints Optionally, you can use the Auth SDK for Node.js to get a head-start with your Node application.
UI Kit (Alpha): A React-based UI kit which makes it easy for you to use our off-the-shelf front-end components to build your own front-end experiences on top of our Member API.
Available to customers on our Plus Platform plan only, the Data API 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 Airbyte or similar.
If you have general questions or want to share your creations with the developer community, please check out our Developer community space.
If you have API feedback for our engineering team, please use this form to reach out to us.
If you're new to Circle, we recommend checking out the Knowledge Base.
