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# Use cases

These examples show how organizations can use API Hub, and the access for each
case. All cases use the same API and the same access control.

Read only · **Automation and monitoring**
A monitoring or workflow tool checks pages or finds changes in content.
Its token can only read. An error in the tool cannot change content.

Read and write · **Imports and migrations**
Move product data, press releases or an old website into TYPO3. The
validation is the same as in the backend. Editors can review the result
in a workspace before the publication.

OAuth or static token · **Translation and content services**
A service gets content, returns the result and uses images and
documents. Each supplier uses the same interface.

Per person · **Applications for editors**
Editors connect an external tool and approve the access. The tool uses
their permissions. Each editor sees only the permitted content.

Own actions · **Custom business logic**
Your developers add a function to an extension one time. The API and
the backend can then use it, with validation, documentation and access
control.

REST API · **AI assistants and agents**
An agent uses the REST API with a token, as all other apps do. The same
limits apply.

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## Select the access

| The application… | Connect it with | Uses |
| --- | --- | --- |
| operates on a server without a user | Static token | One dedicated backend user |
| has many users with different permissions | OAuth 2.0 | The person who approved it |
| must only read | The scope `content:read` | The user of the token |
| must change content | The scopes `content:read` and `content:write` | The user of the token |
| must manage backend users or other data for administrators | The scope `admin` in addition | An administrator only |

[Security and governance](security.md)

[Status and adoption](status.md)