How to Connect Claude to Any REST API in 2 Minutes (Step-by-Step Guide)
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What if you could ask Claude "What's my Stripe MRR this month?" and get a real number back - not a hallucinated guess, but an actual API response? Or ask "What's the current Bitcoin price?" and have Claude fetch it from CoinGecko, live, right inside your chat window? This isn't a hypothetical. It takes about 2 minutes to set up, and you don't need to write a single line of code. I'll walk you through the entire process. The Problem: Claude Is Smart But Isolated Claude can write code, analyze documents, explain quantum physics.