The HTTP Request activity in UI Builder is a powerful feature that lets you integrate web APIs to your conversational AI application. In this Best Practice guide, you can find answers to common tasks when working with data from web services or making HTTP requests.

In this article you will learn how to:

• Pass an authorization header
• Pass parameters (hardcoded)
• Pass parameters using variables and data-binding
• Test an API result
• Manually extract data in a response
• Extract data in a response
• Use API response data in a send response activity
• Test for elements in a web service response body

Some tips and tricks are also included.

How To Pass an Authorization Header

Web services often require you to send authorization details as part of the request. You can do this by adding a Header to the HTTP Request activity.

Each instance of a Header consists of 2 properties the Key and the Value.