Possible to update rows with data only accessible via API call?

I'm not good at what I'm working on so apologies if some of my terminology is off. Also not sure if this belongs here, or in a more programming oriented area. I am looking for options to update rows of a mysql database with data only accessible via REST api. In other words... I will create a row with some of the data needed. Then I have 4-5 columns I'd like to update with data that I need to gather from the output from an API call