Display 3rd party API data

Good day, I am new to wix, with limited backend experience. I have some questions, thank you for your time in advance :slight_smile:

I have a 3rd party API, which returns a json object with quite a few items, mostly text and images. This data gets updated periodically.

I want to use the API data to build categorized item sets and display it on a category page.

  1. Should I store this data in a dataset? How do I do this, how is it kept up to date?
  2. Should I just bind the json data directly to the pages? This seems like a lot more work as I have to create a filter too for categories?

Comments: I have been trying to get the wix-fetch to work, without much luck, not sure how I even test the function in the front end. I see no calls being made to the API. My API call is simple, just a url with a key in the end.

I’ve used this to guide me https://support.wix.com/en/article/corvid-accessing-third-party-services-with-the-fetch-api without any success.

Thank you very much.

Any help out there?