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Accessing webapi through javascript from external website

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Posted on by ah1994

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Hi,

I have a website from which i want to access the crm through webapi using JavaScript. How to Achieve this?

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Aldous Huxley V

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jestuder 158 on at

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Here is a link that might help you. Also are you trying to write data to CRM or read from CRM?

msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg334279.aspx

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Aric Levin - MVP 30,190 Moderator on at

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You can try using the WebApi library by David Yack. It's a lightweight library with different methods of authentication:

github.com/.../Xrm.Tools.CRMWebAPI

Hope this helps.

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Hi Aric, Can u give me some sample or example?

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JohnAnonymous 5,241 on at

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Hi,

If you are trying to access CRM data through Javascript from an external website, please know that this is not possible. The CRM api needs authentication and a user context and doesn't allow anonymous access. And passing credentials in Javascript is not secure.

If you need to show data on you website, you need a server api between your website and CRM that handles your authentication.

The links above are for using javascript within CRM.

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I agree with you that JavaScript is not secure since it runs in the DOM and the better approach is to connect through the back end. But, if you are using an application like node.js it allows JavaScript to run on a server just like we are use to with C#. Here is another article I found where a user gives an example of using JavaScript in a web portal with a link to github.

community.dynamics.com/.../web-api-authentication-from-javascript

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JohnAnonymous 5,241 on at

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Hi James,

I wasn't considering NodeJS as an option. I agree, if it's node JS you can securely call the api's.

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Santosh bhagat 464 on at

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Try below link

dotnetdeveloper2012.blogspot.com/.../dynamics-crm-access-local-web-api.html

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