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