Podio API Documentation
Areas
Our API is split up into different areas, that each contains a subset of methods grouped by functionality. You could call each area its own API, but we like to call them areas, because it's just a simple grouping.
Core Areas
- Applications
- This area is used to manage application definitions.
- Comments
- Comments are made by users on different objects.
- Contacts
- Each user has a profile attached, that holds all the personal details of the user.
- Files
- This area contains all the files that can be uploaded to Podio by end users.
- Hooks
- Hooks are webhooks that can call external sites when certain actions occur in Podio.
- Items
- Items are entries in an app.
- OAuth authorization
- This API uses OAuth 2.
- Status
- Status messages are small texts that the users wishes to share with the other users in a space.
- Tasks
- Tasks are used to track what work has to be done.
Other Areas
- Actions
- Actions are activities performed by users that does not pertain to one of the core objects in Podio, items, tasks and statuses.
- Alerts
- An alert is a ping from on user to one or more other users.
- App market
- Apps and packs can be shared to the app market so they can be installed and used by anyone.
- Batch
- This area contains all the batch operations that the user have executed.
- Calendar
- The calendar is used to get the calendar for a user.
- Conversations
- Conversations are private messages exchanged between >=2 users.
- Devices
- Methods needed for supporting external devices like mobile phones and desktop clients.
- This area manages emails sent to and received from a user.
- Embeds
- Embeds are links shared by users in statuses, conversations and comments.
- Flows
- Causes:item.
- Forms
- Forms can be used to enable direct submission into apps from websites.
- Friends
- API for accessing and modifying one's friends in Podio: users that are (or have been in the past) in the same workspace or have interacted directly inside Podio (e.
- Grants
- Grants are single access permissions for specific objects, f.
- Importer
- Used for importing files into applications, for example, xlsx and xls files.
- Integrations
- This API controls the integration supported by Podio "out-of-the-box".
- Layout
- Manage application's layout (badge, relationship) definitions.
- Linked Accounts
- Linked Accounts represent connections to 3rd-party APIs like Google, Facebook, etc.
- Notifications
- A notification is an information about an event that occured in Podio.
- Organizations
- This area holds organizations.
- Questions
- The question area makes it possible to attach questions to other objects in Podio.
- Ratings
- Many objects can be rated including items and status messages.
- Recurrence
- Handles recurrence for different objects, currently tasks.
- Reference
- API for getting generic information about objects.
- Reminders
- Reminders are used to remind you about tasks with a due date.
- Search
- This API makes it possible to search across Podio.
- Space members
- Manages membership of spaces.
- Spaces
- A space is a work area.
- Stream
- The stream API will supply the different streams.
- Subscriptions
- Subscriptions allows the user to be notified when an object is created, updated, delete, comments added to it or rated.
- Tags
- Tags are words or short sentences that are used as metadata for objects.
- Users
- This area holds all the users which just includes basic operations.
- Views
- Views can be used to limit the items returned when viewing an app.
- Voting
- User-defined voting on an item.
- Widgets
- Widgets are small components that can be installed on an organization, space, app or user.