How to Consume Third-Party REST Web Services

marystromberg · ‎09-17-2015

This video in our Web Services series demonstrates how to configure outbound REST web service messages to consume third-party web services from the ServiceNow platform. It applies to all supported releases as of Fuji.

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This video covers:<ul><li>0:39 <a title="outu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=39s" href="https://youtu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=39s">Background Information</a></li><li>1:37 <a title="outu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=1m37s" href="https://youtu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=1m37s">Using the RESTMessageV2 scripting API to call REST web services</a></li><li>3:39 <a title="outu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=3m39s" href="https://youtu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=3m39s">Creating outbound REST messages</a></li><li>4:21 <a title="outu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=4m21s" href="https://youtu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=4m21s">Using HTTP methods to send headers, query parameters, and content</a></li><li>6:06 <a title="outu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=6m06s" href="https://youtu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=6m06s">Testing REST messages</a></li><li>7:29 <a title="outu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=7m29s" href="https://youtu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=7m29s">Using variable substitution</a></li><li>8:38 <a title="outu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=8m38s" href="https://youtu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=8m38s">Using the Content field</a></li><li>10:18 <a title="outu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=10m18s" href="https://youtu.be/sZ8ZCgxTQFQ?t=10m18s">Previewing the script to use across the platform</a></li></ul>For more information on consuming third-party REST web services, see:ServiceNow product documentation:<a title="ki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Getting_Started_with_REST" href="http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Getting_Started_with_REST">Getting Started with REST</a><a title="ki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Outbound_REST_Web_Service" href="http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Outbound_REST_Web_Service">Outbound REST Web Service</a><a title="ki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=RESTMessageV2_API" href="http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=RESTMessageV2_API">RestMessageV2 API</a><a title="ki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=REST_API_Explorer" href="http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=REST_API_Explorer">REST API Explorer</a>Knowledge Base:<a title="i.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0535048" href="https://hi.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0535048">REST API FAQs</a><a title="i.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0534905" href="https://hi.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0534905">Table API FAQs</a><a title="i.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0550772" href="https://hi.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0550772">PRB637497: REST message test run Parameters field is truncated</a>ServiceNow Community:<a title="Leveraging Web Services for App Integration" __default_attr="2615" __jive_macro_name="document" class="jive_macro_document jive_macro" data-orig-content="Leveraging Web Services for App Integration" href="/community?id=community_article&sys_id=6f4ca2a1dbd0dbc01dcaf3231f961952">Leveraging Web Services for App Integration</a><a title="Introduction to Web Services" __default_attr="4573" __jive_macro_name="blogpost" class="jive_macro jive_macro_blogpost" data-orig-content="Introduction to Web Services" href="/community?id=community_blog&sys_id=781daea5dbd0dbc01dcaf3231f961984">Introduction to Web Services</a>Your feedback helps us better serve you! Did you find this video helpful? Leave us a comment to tell us why or why not.

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