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LMS API & Webhooks — Connect Arythmatic to Anything

Your LMS shouldn't be an island. Connect it to your entire tech stack with a developer-friendly API.

Last Updated: April 2026

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Why It Matters

REST API

Full REST API for managing users, courses, enrollments, and progress programmatically. API docs and SDKs included.

Real-Time Webhooks

Get notified instantly when learners enroll, complete courses, pass assessments, or earn certificates.

Workflow Automation

Connect to Zapier, Make, or Power Automate to trigger actions in CRMs, HRISs, and other tools.

SSO & Directory Sync

Support for SAML 2.0, Google SSO, and Microsoft Azure AD — learners sign in with existing credentials, no extra account needed.

How It Works

Arythmatic's API and webhook system transforms your LMS from a standalone application into an integrated node in your organization's technology ecosystem. The REST API provides comprehensive programmatic access to all core platform functions — user management (create, read, update, deactivate), course administration (catalog, content, settings), enrollment management (enroll, withdraw, assign), and progress tracking (lesson completion, quiz scores, certification status). Each endpoint follows REST conventions with JSON request/response bodies, standard HTTP methods, and meaningful error codes. Authentication uses API keys with configurable scopes and rate limits, ensuring secure access with appropriate boundaries. The webhook system delivers real-time event notifications to your endpoints whenever significant actions occur in the platform: user registration, course enrollment, lesson completion, quiz submission, course completion, certificate issuance, subscription purchase, and live session attendance. Each webhook payload includes comprehensive event data — the full user object, course details, scores, timestamps — enabling your receiving systems to take action without needing to make callback API requests. Webhook delivery includes automatic retry with exponential backoff for failed deliveries, webhook signature verification for security, and comprehensive delivery logging for debugging. For organizations that prefer no-code integration, native connectors for Zapier and Make (Integromat) provide hundreds of pre-built connections to popular tools including Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Google Sheets, BambooHR, and Microsoft Teams. Common automation patterns include syncing course completions to CRM records, posting completion notifications to Slack channels, creating LMS accounts from HRIS new-hire events, and updating reporting dashboards with real-time training data. The API is designed with developer experience in mind — comprehensive documentation, code examples in multiple languages, a sandbox environment for testing, and rate limit headers that enable responsible integration development.

Real-World Use Cases

CRM-LMS Integration for Customer Training

A SaaS company wants customer training completions to appear in Salesforce so account managers can see which customers are trained and which need attention. The customer success team uses Salesforce as their single source of truth.

Outcome: Webhook-triggered Salesforce updates show training status on every customer record, account managers identify untrained customers in their pipeline reviews, and training completion correlates with a 30% improvement in customer retention in their analytics.

HRIS-Driven Onboarding Automation

A company wants new employee records created in BambooHR to automatically generate LMS accounts, assign role-appropriate learning paths, and send welcome emails — without any manual intervention from the training team.

Outcome: New hire LMS onboarding is fully automated, time from hire to training start drops from 5 days to same-day, and the training team eliminates 10 hours per week of manual account creation and course assignment.

Custom Reporting Dashboard

An organization's executive team wants training metrics displayed alongside business KPIs in their existing Tableau dashboard. The BI team needs programmatic access to training data without manual exports.

Outcome: The API feeds real-time training data into Tableau, executives see training completion alongside revenue and productivity metrics, and the L&D team gains executive visibility that increases training program investment.

Full Capabilities

✓RESTful API endpoints

✓Webhook event notifications

✓API key authentication

✓User management API

✓Course and enrollment API

✓Progress and completion API

✓Zapier integration

✓Make (Integromat) integration

✓API rate limiting and monitoring

✓Webhook retry and logging

How Arythmatic Compares

API quality in the LMS space varies dramatically. Basic platforms like Teachable and Thinkific offer limited APIs with partial coverage of platform features. TalentLMS provides a REST API but with limited webhook support. WordPress-based solutions rely on third-party plugin APIs that can be unreliable and inconsistent. Enterprise platforms offer comprehensive APIs but documentation is often poor and integration requires expensive professional services. Arythmatic provides a full REST API with comprehensive webhooks, documented with code examples, supported by native Zapier and Make connectors, and designed for developer self-service. The combination of API depth, webhook reliability (with retry and logging), no-code integration options, and developer-friendly documentation makes Arythmatic unusually accessible for organizations that want to integrate their LMS with their broader tech stack.

Getting Started

1Navigate to Settings > API to generate your first API key — configure the key's permission scopes based on what your integration needs to access

2Review the API documentation to understand available endpoints, authentication requirements, request formats, and rate limits

3Set up webhooks in Settings > Webhooks — specify your endpoint URL, select the events you want to receive, and test with a sample payload

4For no-code integrations, connect Arythmatic to Zapier or Make using your API key and browse pre-built integration templates for common workflows

5Build and test your integration in the sandbox environment before pointing it at production data

6Monitor API usage and webhook delivery in the API Dashboard — review rate limit consumption, failed webhook deliveries, and retry status

Pro Tips

💡Use webhook signature verification to ensure payloads are genuinely from Arythmatic — this prevents spoofed webhook calls from triggering actions in your systems

💡Implement idempotent webhook processing in your receiving systems — occasional duplicate deliveries (from retries) should not create duplicate actions in your CRM or HRIS

💡Create separate API keys for different integrations with minimal permission scopes — this follows the principle of least privilege and limits impact if a key is compromised

💡Use Zapier or Make for rapid prototyping of integration workflows, then rebuild critical automations with direct API calls for better reliability and performance

💡Monitor webhook delivery logs proactively — consistent failures to your endpoint may indicate network issues, endpoint changes, or capacity problems that need attention before they impact data synchronization

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Arythmatic have a public API?

Yes. Arythmatic provides a full REST API for managing users, courses, enrollments, and progress. Real-time webhooks notify your systems of key events like completions and certifications.

Can I automate learner enrollments and completions via API?

Yes. Use webhooks to trigger actions in other tools, or connect via Zapier and Make to automate enrollment, notifications, CRM updates, and more.

What webhook events does Arythmatic support?

Arythmatic sends webhooks for all key events: user creation, course enrollment, lesson completion, quiz submission, course completion, certificate issuance, and live session attendance. Each webhook includes full event data.

Can I connect Arythmatic to my CRM?

Yes. Use webhooks or Zapier to sync training data with Salesforce, HubSpot, or any CRM. Automatically update contact records when customers complete courses or earn certifications.

Does Arythmatic integrate with HRIS platforms?

Yes. Connect to BambooHR, Workday, or other HRIS platforms via API or Zapier to automatically create LMS accounts when new employees are onboarded and deactivate them when they leave.

Is there API documentation?

Yes. Comprehensive API documentation covers all endpoints, authentication, request/response formats, error handling, and rate limits. Code examples are provided in multiple languages.

What happens if a webhook delivery fails?

Arythmatic includes automatic webhook retry with exponential backoff. Failed deliveries are retried up to 5 times over 24 hours. All webhook attempts are logged for debugging and monitoring.

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