Trello

Trello is a visual project management tool that uses boards, lists, and cards to help teams organize and prioritize projects, track progress, and collaborate effectively on tasks and workflows.

Power end-to-end data operations for your Trello API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Trello connector is purpose-built for Trello, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Trello or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Trello workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating a Trello credential, you need to obtain your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret from your Trello account. Trello uses OAuth1 authentication for all API requests.

To obtain your Trello OAuth credentials, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your Trello account using your administrator credentials.

2. Navigate to Power-Ups in your Trello account, or visit the Trello Developer Portal to access API key management.

3. In the Trello Developer Portal, navigate to API Keys or Developer API Keys to access your API key management.

4. If you don't have an API key yet, click Create API Key or Generate API Key to create a new API key.

5. Configure your API key settings:

   • Enter a name for the API key (e.g., "Nexla Integration")
   • Review and accept the Trello API Terms of Service
   • Click Create or Generate to create the API key

6. After the API key is created, you will see your API Key (Consumer Key) and API Secret (Consumer Secret). Copy both values immediately, as the API Secret may not be accessible again after you navigate away from the page.

7. Store both credentials securely, as you will need them to configure your Nexla credential. The API Secret is sensitive information and should be kept confidential.

The Consumer Key and Consumer Secret are used in the OAuth1 authentication flow to obtain access tokens. These tokens are then used to authenticate your requests to the Trello API. If your credentials are compromised, you should immediately revoke them in your Trello Developer Portal and generate new ones. For detailed information about obtaining OAuth credentials, API authentication, and available endpoints, refer to the Trello API documentation.

Authenticate

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

New Credential Overlay – Trello

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Trello uses OAuth1 authentication for all API requests. The OAuth1 authentication flow will be initiated when you save the credential. During the OAuth flow, you will be redirected to Trello to authorize Nexla to access your Trello account. After authorization, Nexla will automatically obtain and store the access tokens needed to authenticate API requests.

   Your Trello OAuth credentials (Consumer Key, Consumer Secret) can be found in the Trello Developer Portal under API Keys. The Consumer Secret is sensitive information and must be kept confidential.

   If your credentials are compromised, you should immediately revoke them in your Trello Developer Portal and generate new ones. The OAuth credentials provide access to your Trello account data and should be treated as sensitive information. Keep your credentials secure and do not share them publicly.

   For detailed information about obtaining OAuth credentials, API authentication, and available endpoints, see the Trello API documentation.

4. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Trello connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Trello instance, and click Next; or, create a new Trello credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Trello endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

Get All Boards

This endpoint template retrieves all boards that the authorized user is a member of from your Trello account. Use this template when you need to access board information, board lists, or board metadata for analysis, reporting, or integration purposes.

• This endpoint automatically retrieves all boards that the authorized user is a member of from your Trello account. No additional configuration is required beyond selecting this endpoint template. Note that this endpoint will not return all boards the member has access to, only boards where the member is explicitly a member.

This endpoint returns all boards that the authorized user is a member of from your Trello account, including board IDs, names, descriptions, and board settings. Note that this endpoint returns only boards where the user is explicitly a member, not all boards the user has access to.

For detailed information about boards, API response structures, and available board data, see the Trello API documentation.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

Trello data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Trello API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new Trello data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.