# Baserow Webhooks and API - Automate Without Writing Code

> Learn how open-source Baserow exposes webhooks and a REST API: subscribe to row events, generate personal API tokens, and read or write table data over HTTP.

Source: https://opennix.org/en/docs/baserow/webhook-api/


Open-source Baserow talks to the outside world without a UI: webhooks notify external services when rows change, personal API tokens unlock the REST API for reading and writing table data, and database and table IDs tie every request to the right resource. This section covers how to set up each of these free mechanisms.