Nango’s Proxy simplifies making authenticated requests to external APIs. It’s a tool designed to save you time and reduce complexity in your interactions with APIs.
The Proxy is useful to perform any individual request to external APIs, e.g.
Fetching Data: Great for one-time data retrieval, like getting user metadata.
Writing Data: Use it to send data back to an API, such as updating a user profile.
Proxy vs. actionsThe Proxy works for individual API requests, while actions handle more complex scenarios that require multiple requests or data transformations.
The Proxy is actually the default way to make API requests in integration scripts, including action scripts.