Authenticating third party api service to Luminate online to update on external site form submissions

Sean R

Hi,

I've been stumbling through the API docs trying to build out what I thought would be a pretty simple integration… the data flow is the following:

(1) User submits form on our external site
→ (2) the form has a webhook pointing to a custom api end point that lives on our custom website (the site is React based, so the endpoint is something like {domain}/api/{api_endpoint} and runs node.js)
→ → (3) since this custom api endpoint is node.js, it's running server side, but this website and endpoint are running on third party cloud hosting (Gatsby Cloud) and therefore we do NOT have a static IP to ‘whitelist’.
→ → → (4) Ideally, I would have expected us to able to whitelist by domain (since we own, and yes Luminate has a setting for this but I don't know when it's used…) to call an api to ‘authenticate’ our ‘third party api end point service’ so that we can then update our users/constituent data in blackbaud based on any incoming form data from our third party site.

But since I can't use the server side APIs (since we don't have a static IP), and I am having trouble getting ‘this service’ authenticated to be able to send POST UPDATES to luminate online…

Anyone figured this out?

Jeremy Reynolds

@Sean R
Depending on exactly what you need to do, Roll Your Own API technique could fit the bill. Basically you'd create a PageBuilder page that uses alternate method to verify ownership than the whitelisted IPs. That'd give you an auth token, or you could skip that and just use S-Tags to build your own custom JSON response without touching the regular API.