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Introduction

LightBox’s cloud-based APIs provide access to an extensive universe of location and property data to power your applications. The benefits of normalizing, processing, or even hosting data in your own warehouses gives you the automation your business needs.

We believe simplicity and lightweight solutions bring the best results, so we make our API's functional with minimal user-derived code. Integrate your applications with our API's without time-consuming development. Discover what our APIs can do for you through the LightBox Developer Portal and create instantaneous examples in our sandbox environment before going into production.

Timeframe and number of requests for an evaluation

Duration: Your evaluation will be available for three weeks after signup.

Number of requests: You will have a total of 2000 requests that can be used across the API catalog.

 

What's Next

  1. Setup your credentials
  2. Log into the Developer Portal 
  3. Retrieve your authentication key
  4. Navigate to an API 
  5. Authenticate using your key
  6. Try out the various endpoints

1. Setup your credentials

You will be receiving an email from LightBox to setup your credentials

OKTA mail

 

You will have 7 days to Activate your LightBox account. If this email expires, you can send a help request using the link: https://login.lightboxre.com/help/login

Using the Activate LightBox Account button redirect you to create a password, set up a security question and a security image.
Once this step is complete you will automatically be logged into LightBox.

Note: Your email address will be your user name

 

2. Log into the Developer Portal

To retrieve your authentication key you will need to be logged into the developer portal. 

Navigate to https://developer.lightboxre.com and use the Log In link in the upper right hand corner of the page

Login Link

Use the credentials that were setup on the first step.

 

3. Retrieve your authentication key

Once you are logged into your account a new menu item will appear called Apps

Apps Link

Clicking on the Apps menu item will bring you to your apps page. You will see a app already created for your evaluation.

Apps Page

Select anywhere in the gray box to bring your to the Apps settings view. Your authorization token can be found on this page under the consumer key.  

Consumer Key Page

Click the copy button or the eye icon to display your key. This is the key that you will use when authenticating your API calls.

 

4. Navigate to an API 

Select APIs on the main tool bar. For example: Select an API card such as PARCELS 

Api Catalog

You can search for specific categories in the API Products section. Choose any or all categories that are relevant to your needs

 

5. Authenticate using your key

Select the Authorize button

Authorize Button

Enter your authorization key

Authorize Key

Click Close. You are now authorized to try any endpoint within this page. If you change to a new API page you will need to re-add your authorization key. 

 

6. Try out the various endpoints

Scroll down to an endpoint that you would like to try and select Try it out button

Try it out button

This action will allow you to enter in the required and optional parameters. Once you have entered the parameters select execute. 

Execute Button

The result to this call will be displayed below the execute button.