# Talend Cloud API Designer Management API

Use the public API to automate tasks in Talend Cloud API Designer.

The Talend Cloud API Designer public management API allows you to create, fetch, delete, or share your API definitions. You can use it to automate these tasks with command line scripts and CI/CD pipelines. For example, you can fetch your API to publish it to an API gateway.

API requests require access tokens. For more information, see [Generating a Personal Access Token](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/Cloud/management-console-user-guide/cloud-access-token).

For more information about the Talend Cloud API Designer public management API, see the reference documentation available at https://apid.<data\_center>.cloud.talend.com/api/docs/. You can find a list of the URLs to use for each data center in [Accessing Talend Cloud applications](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/installation-guide-windows/Cloud/talend-cloud-application-url).

For examples of the API in use, see [Talend Cloud API Designer Examples](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/api-designer-user-guide/Cloud/api-designer-examples "The following use cases allow you to put into practice the features offered in Talend Cloud API Designer.").