API & CLI
API & CLI
Use Tidal by Redwood’s API or CLI to easily integrate your own application targets into your workload automation environment. Take advantage of Tidal’s advanced scheduling functionality and avoid custom development, scripting or manual effort.
Achieve frictionless connection with any application
Simplify your workload automation development.
Extend automations
Embed Tidal directly in your other enterprise processes.
Schedule your way
Leverage Tidal’s robust scheduling functionality in new targets.
Link targets efficiently
Avoid custom development and manual scheduling.
Customization with less effort
Although Tidal offers a comprehensive set of pre-built integrations, there may be cases when you need to include processes associated with your own applications or other systems in your workflows.
With Tidal’s API or CLI, you can easily integrate these targets into your workload automation environment without custom development, scripting or manual work.
Integrating a target through the CLI
Working through the CLI is a little closer to scripting with commands to execute tasks in Tidal. The CLI provides access to a subset of what you can do through the API but still enables the most common things you want to accomplish, such as inserting a new job definition or rerunning a job in Tidal.
The CLI also supports the application development lifecycle. You can use commands to simultaneously promote source code, data and scheduling changes as one set of actions.
What the API enables
Tidal is API-first—everything you can do through the UI in the Tidal platform is also possible through the API.
Integrating a target through the API
- Apply event-based automation
- Build custom automation elements inside your target
- Submit tasks from your target to Tidal for processing and monitoring
- Use Tidal’s API or CLI to orchestrate targets that are running on-premises or in the cloud
- Use Tidal’s calendaring, time zone and Daylight Saving Time mechanisms
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Tidal API and CLI integration FAQs
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How can I install the Tidal CLI?
Follow this link to find directions for installing the Tidal CLI on Windows or Linux/Unix.
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What are API connectors?
API connectors are pre-built software components or tools that simplify the process of connecting different applications or systems by managing the complexities of API interactions, allowing for easier data exchange and automation.
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What is the difference between an API and an API connector?
An Application Programming Interface (API) defines the methods and protocols for communication between applications, while an API connector is a tool that simplifies the process of integrating data between two applications by providing pre-built interfaces.