# REST API and webhooks for developers | Bridge

> The Bridge REST API and webhooks connect conversations with your CRM, your automation platforms and your own applications.

## Integrate Bridge with your systems.

The Bridge REST API and webhooks connect conversations with your CRM, your automation platforms and your own applications.

- [Read the docs](https://docs.bridge.new)
- [API reference](https://docs.bridge.new/api-reference/health/health-check)

### REST API

Push data into Bridge: create or update contacts, start conversations, post messages and look up internal users, channels and custom attributes.

https://docs.bridge.new/credentials

### Webhooks

Receive real-time events about contacts, tasks, calls and their transcripts, meetings, emails and conversation summaries. Every event is signed so you can verify where it came from.

https://docs.bridge.new/webhooks

### Lead Capture

Register leads from your landing page and open a WhatsApp conversation with them automatically.

https://docs.bridge.new/lead-capture

### AI agents

Start outbound conversations with LeadScout or with an agent, and request a handoff to your team when needed.

https://docs.bridge.new/api-reference/agents-api/list-the-agents-of-a-workspace

## Key facts

- **Host**: `https://api-connect-us.bridge.new`
- **Authentication**: API key in the `x-api-key` header, generated by an administrator in the Bridge console
- **Rate limit**: 50 requests every 5 seconds per workspace
- **Errors**: Codes in the `BRIDGE_<DOMAIN>_<NNNN>` format
- **Spec**: [OpenAPI](https://docs.bridge.new/api-reference/openapi.yaml)

## For coding assistants

The docs publish a read-only MCP server at `https://docs.bridge.new/mcp` and an index at `https://docs.bridge.new/llms.txt`, so your assistant answers from the published contract.

```sh
claude mcp add --transport http bridge-docs https://docs.bridge.new/mcp
```

[How to connect your assistant](https://docs.bridge.new/connect-your-agent)

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