Client-side programming and Web services

Sitefinity CMS introduces a RESTful Web Services API, which allows you to create and consume content from your website using the OData protocol. The main benefits of using these services are the following:

• Support for multiple RESTful API services
• User-friendly UI for configuration of the services
• Control over the set of content types that are exposed
• Option to allow anonymous access per profile or type
• Easy access to related data
• Auto-generated API reference
• Support for saved queries and calculated fields 

Sitefinity' s web services come with a client JavaScript SDK. The SDK comes with the package sitefinity-webservices-sdk.

The SDK can be used in web or mobile applications.

Using Sitefinity CMS UI, you can include in your web service the following types of content:

• News items
• Blogs and Blog posts
• Events and Calendars
• Images and Image libraries
• Videos and Video libraries
• Documents and Document libraries
• Lists and List items
• Comments
• Dynamic content
• Shared content blocks
• Flat and Hierarchical taxonomies
• Folders
• Pages

For each created web service, Sitefinity CMS generates an API reference. 

1. To access it, navigate to Administration » Web services.
2. Click the Use in your app link of the respective service.

NOTE:You can also access the docs via /<route-URL>/<your-service-URL>/sfhelp

• Sample for using Kendo UI with the Web Services and the client SDK for maniging CRUD operations:
  https://github.com/Sitefinity/webservices-kendo-widget
• Sample for importing data from an external system. The sample provides a user can migrate his content from a legacy or external system into Sitefinity:
  https://github.com/Sitefinity/webservices-import-data