Automating Looker Queries

[brian_sutton-16]

I am very new to Looker, and am considering using it to replace a very old web service. 

Part of the service has users running database queries via a web interface, for which Looker is perfect.

The other part supports web service queries that are called by various automations throughout our company to obtain information from the same database, which is then processed to determine further automated actions needed.

Does the Looker instance support remote, automated queries via some kind of web service to return query results (via xml, json, etc.) directly to a caller without having somebody there to click on a web page? I’ve looked at the API section, but can’t quite determine if that will do the trick.

Of course, those apps could get accounts on the database and do their queries directly, but I’m hoping to leverage Looker to facilitate the migration and minimize the other systems’ development.