# What is the best integration for external REST API

**URL:** <https://community.bloomreach.com/t/what-is-the-best-integration-for-external-rest-api/2054>\
**Category:** Experience Manager (PaaS/OnPrem)\
**Created:** [August 5, 2020, 11:02am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/what-is-the-best-integration-for-external-rest-api/2054 "2020-08-05T11:02:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![josepharuja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@josepharuja](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/josepharuja)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 11:02am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/what-is-the-best-integration-for-external-rest-api/2054/1 "2020-08-05T11:02:49Z")

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I am Java Developer and new to hippo CMS but have some liferay portal experience.  
We have some hiererachial application model data sits within an API exposed by a modelling tool and we want to render that on the site.  
I have been looking at CRISP and also [Bloomreach Documentation](https://documentation.bloomreach.com/11/library/concepts/integration/external-rest-api/introduction.html) to do the integration. Any recommendation would be great

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**Author:** ![woonsanko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@woonsanko](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/woonsanko)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/what-is-the-best-integration-for-external-rest-api/2054/2 "2020-08-06T17:30:37Z")

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If the data resides externally, then crisp api is the best to read the data in the delivery tier.  
You can possibly associate a cms document with an external data (e.g, storing id in the document). If you want to let content authors do it by themselves, consider using the external document picker in cms document types:

- [https://bloomreach-forge.github.io/external-document-picker/openui-field/architecture.html](https://bloomreach-forge.github.io/external-document-picker/openui-field/architecture.html)

Regards,

Woonsan

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**Author:** ![josepharuja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@josepharuja](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/josepharuja)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/what-is-the-best-integration-for-external-rest-api/2054/3 "2020-08-07T10:06:36Z")

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Thanks Woonsan