api-gateway

# API Gateway

Passthrough proxy for direct access to third-party APIs using managed OAuth connections, provided by [Maton](https://maton.ai). The API gateway lets you call native API endpoints directly.

## Quick Start

```bash
# Native Slack API call
python <<'EOF'
import urllib.request, os, json
data = json.dumps({'channel': 'C0123456', 'text': 'Hello from gateway!'}).encode()
req = urllib.request.Request('https://gateway.maton.ai/slack/api/chat.postMessage', data=data, method='POST')
req.add_header('Authorization', f'Bearer {os.environ["MATON_API_KEY"]}')
req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
print(json.dumps(json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(req)), indent=2))
EOF
```


## Base URL

```
https://gateway.maton.ai/{app}/{native-api-path}
```

Replace `{app}` with the service name and `{native-api-path}` with the actual API endpoint path.

IMPORTANT: The URL path MUST start with the connection's app name (eg. `/google-mail/...`). This prefix tells the gateway which app connection to use. For example, the native Gmail API path starts with `gmail/v1/`, so full paths look like `/google-mail/gmail/v1/users/me/messages`.

## Authentication

All requests require the Maton API key in the Authorization header:

```
Authorization: Bearer $MATON_API_KEY
```

The API gateway automatically injects the appropriate OAuth token for the target service.

**Environment Variable:** You can set your API key as the `MATON_API_KEY` environment variable:

```bash
export MATON_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
```

## Getting Your API Key

1. Sign in or create an account at [maton.ai](https://maton.ai)
2. Go to [maton.ai/settings](https://maton.ai/settings)
3. Click the copy button on the right side of API Key section to copy it

## Connection Management

Connection management uses a separate base URL: `https://ctrl.maton.ai`

### List Connections

```bash
python <<'EOF'
import urllib.request, os, json
req = urllib.request.Request('https://ctrl.maton.ai/connections?app=slack&status=ACTIVE...