I see that BuddyPress has a REST API now that can access BuddyPress data from a URL.
BuddyPress is in its early stages of developing the REST API. It’s not close for production usage yet. Follow development here:
https://github.com/buddypress/BP-REST
It would be great if I could just add a URL somewhere in the settings and have data get pulled in.
You will need to do some custom development here.
If your CRM is CiviCRM, there is a BuddyPress plugin that syncs with that. If your CRM is something else, you could take a look at the codebase and modify it to suit your needs:
https://github.com/christianwach/civicrm-wp-member-sync
Nope, it’s Microsoft Dynamics CRM. With REST, shouldn’t it be possible to just add our CRM URL to a plugin and have it query that to find our members, then it does everything else automatically? It would be nice if BuddyPress added this functionality since REST seems like it’s the de facto standard for apps to communicate data to each other now. Custom solutions for each CRM type seem kind of backwards when REST is already a possibility.
No, REST does not mean plug-n-play by just pasting a URL. A plugin or third-party script would still need development even if the REST API is fully implemeneted.
This would be a lot of custom development. Read this post about consuming external API in WordPress http://ben.lobaugh.net/blog/46117/wordpress-interacting-with-external-apis
Okay, thanks! I’ll read up on this some more.
