# How make a new API which uses remote web service

**URL:** <https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-make-a-new-api-which-uses-remote-web-service/1054>\
**Category:** Connecting to Web Services\
**Created:** [April 30, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-make-a-new-api-which-uses-remote-web-service/1054 "2015-04-30T11:32:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/how-make-a-new-api-which-uses-remote-web-service/1054/2 "2015-04-30T17:18:56Z")

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This post provides some guidance, check it out.

> [@Examples on Connecting to Web Services](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/examples-on-connecting-to-web-services/71):
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> You can easily connect to external REST APIs using DreamFactory. This [three minute screencast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crEyOIpgMbM) provides a quick primer. First, in the “Services” tab of the Admin Console just select “Remote Web Service” and specify any headers and parameters required to access the web service. There’s a blog post [here](https://blog.dreamfactory.com/blog/bid/326051/Adding-a-Remote-Web-Service-to-Your-DSP) with an example of connecting to the Edmunds API. That’s it, you can start calling those services. You can think of DreamFactory as a tree of REST services…/rest/serviceFoo/…/… and /rest/serviceFo…

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