Get authenticated to the Zendesk API
You first need to generate an authentication token to access the Zendesk API. We are going to use the basic authentication mechanism. More details provided here.The 2 parameters required are: a user email (agent) that is allowed to access Zendesk, and the API Key that you can retrieve from the Zendesk console:
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Filtering and Sorting using the API
Zendesk API allows you to filter and sort the tickets/users, plus paginate the result. What we need first, is to implement a way to transform the Forest filtering, sorting and pagination convention to the Zendesk API format.Learn more about how to authenticate, filter and sort with the Zendesk API.