APIs, scraping, and mobile
Connecting third-party APIs, scraping without getting blocked, and what it takes to ship a native app.
Do you support APIs?
Yes — especially well-documented ones. For newer or niche APIs, point your assistant at the documentation URL and ask it to read the docs before it writes any code.
Never paste an API key into chat
Floot collects third-party keys through a one-time secure link instead, and only the environment variable names ever come back to the AI. If your assistant asks you to paste a secret into the conversation, ask it to request the credential properly instead. See Connecting external services.
How should I do web scraping with Floot?
Use a dedicated scraping service such as ScrapingBee and have your Floot app call it. Running scrapers directly from a serverless backend is fragile and gets blocked quickly. The service's key goes in through the same secure-link flow as any other credential, so your AI never sees it.
Can Floot build native mobile apps?
Yes. Floot wraps your project as real iOS and Android apps you can install on a device and submit to the App Store or Google Play. Every plan includes app builds — 2 a month on Free, 12 on Pro, unlimited on Power — and Floot does the building; you just need the developer accounts. See Creating mobile apps.
Turning mobile builds on is something only you can do
There is no connector tool that enables mobile builds — the toggle lives under Publish in your project on floot.com. If the entitlement is missing, the server does not error: it quietly publishes the web app and skips the native build, so an assistant that reports a successful publish may still have produced no app. Check the Publish dialog yourself. Once mobile has been published once, your assistant can edit the native config — Info.plist keys and the Android manifest — on its own.
If you just want one-tap access without an app store, add the project to a home screen instead.
Can my app run background work or realtime updates?
Yes to both. Scheduled cron jobs, background jobs, and WebSocket-based realtime are all built in — see What's built in.
You do not have to wire any of it up by hand. Your assistant can provision the database, email-and-password sign-in, Sign in with Google, Sign in with Microsoft, and push notifications for you in one step — the secrets are generated server-side, so there is nothing for you to copy.