6.1.1. Introduction – Babelway

URLs

All the requests to access the REST api have the form https://www.babelway.net/SelfService3/rest/v2/hub-{hubId}/{action}.{format}?{parameters}, where

hubId	The id of your environment. It can be found in the Environment settings section, under the Admin menu.
format	The format in which you want to receive the answer. It must be 'json' or 'xml'. All actions support the 2 formats.
action and parameters	The name and parameters of the action you want to call. See below for all available actions and parameters.

Authentication

All the requests require authentication.

The API currently supports the HTTP Basic Authentication.

It is also possible to provide the credentials via the 2 extra parameters userName and pwd

The Babelway Rest API is to be used on a HTTPS (SSL/TLS) connection in order to encrypt the credentials.

Representations

All timestamps should be formatted as the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT).

Babelway Database optimization

The Babelway Database is optimized in order to have very fast access to all recent messages (received in the last 7 days) and the older messages are archived.

To have a fast response when making API calls to the Babelway system, it is best to add a criteria like "Received in the last 7 days" or something like "Every day".