Quick examples of API requests

If you're looking to make some API requests, here are a few examples to help you get started. Remember, you'll need to set up your server to make these requests - this is just for illustration purposes. To get started, let's look at a simple example.

Suppose we want to get information about the latest users on our site. We can do this by making a GET request to the /users endpoint:

In this example, we're using REST API to demonstrate how API calls are being accessed.

This will return a JSON object containing information about the latest users.

GET /

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
id*	456

200: OK

{
    // Response
}

method URL GET /users

This will return a JSON object containing information about the latest users.

[{
        "name": {
            "title": "mr",
            "first": "ross",
            "last": "geller"
        },
        "id": 123,
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "phone": "011-962-7516",
        "gender": "male",
        "age": "34",
        "occupation": "scientist",
        ...
    },
    {
        "name": {
            "title": "mrs",
            "first": "jennifer",
            "last": "gibson"
        },
        "id": 456,
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "phone": "212-934-5277",
        "gender": "female",
        "age": "29",
        "occupation": "developer",
        ...
    },
    ...
]

Now let's say we want to get information about a specific user. We can do this by making a GET request to the /users/{id} endpoint, where {id} is the id of the user we want to retrieve:

method URL GET /users/123

{
    "name": {
        "title": "mr",
        "first": "ross",
        "last": "geller"
    },
    "id": 123,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "011-962-7516",
    "gender": "male",
    "age": "34",
    "occupation": "scientist",
    ...
}

This will return a JSON object containing information about the user with id 123.

We can also create new users by making a POST request to the /users endpoint. For example, to create a new user with the name "John Doe" and has filled all the required parameters for the server to accept your request, we would make the following request:

method URL POST /users

//Request Body 
{
    "name": {
        "title": "mr",
        "first": "john",
        "last": "doe"
    },
    "email": "[email protected]",
}

The server would then accept your request and send back a response with a status code 200 (means the request has been successful) and in this case would send back a generated id of the user-created by this request as shown below:

//Response Body 
{
    "id":789
}