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Best Practices for Integrating Miro API into Custom Workflow Applications

  • January 27, 2025
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Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on integrating the Miro API into a custom workflow automation application to streamline collaboration and task management across teams. One of the key challenges I’m facing is efficiently handling large boards with numerous widgets while maintaining optimal performance and ensuring data consistency.

I’ve been using the Miro REST API to retrieve board data and automate widget creation. Here’s a basic example of how I’m currently interacting with the API to create sticky notes dynamically:

import requests  

API_TOKEN = 'your_miro_api_token'  
BOARD_ID = 'your_board_id'  

headers = {  
    'Authorization': f'Bearer {API_TOKEN}',  
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'  
}  

data = {  
    "data": {  
        "content": "Automated Task",  
        "style": {  
            "fillColor": "#FFCC00"  
        }  
    },  
    "position": {  
        "x": 100,  
        "y": 100  
    },  
    "type": "sticky_note"  
}  

response = requests.post(f'https://api.miro.com/v2/boards/{BOARD_ID}/items', json=data, headers=headers)  

if response.status_code == 201:  
    print("Sticky note created successfully!")  
else:  
    print("Error:", response.json())  
 

I'm looking for advice on best practices for optimizing API calls, managing rate limits, and ensuring real-time synchronization with external applications.

I recently explored some software development services that specialize in workflow automation and Miro API integrations, but I’d love to hear from the community—what strategies have worked best for you in integrating Miro into your custom applications?

Any recommendations or insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

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Kenneth Ritley
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  • January 30, 2025

Hi ​@jemmii 

I just saw your post! 

I don’t know if you are aware about this, but Miro has a Discord server (I think the link is https://discord.com/channels/933103778855534614/933137409720352798) and you can ask exactly these kinds of questions there - and usually real Miro developers doing similar stuff will get back to you in less than a day!

Having said this, I’m using the REST API to do similar stuff - not stickies but rather moving stuff around, etc. and I have definitely hit a few spots where if i didn’t rate limit or slow my app down, I got not-so-reproducible behavior.  I never tried to solve this the right way - sort of just kludged some stuff until it would work. 

When it comes to integrating Miro . . . never had any problems there since its just an API with HTTP endpoints.

Hope this helps!

Good luck!  Ken


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