Vishva066 / BACKEND_API

API DEVELOPMENT

Visit jsonplaceholder website to interact with free api's.

https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/

Note that while using POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE methods the data will not be actually deleted in the server but it will be faked as it was deleted.

API using cURL

Install curl using this command and check it's version

sudo apt install curl -y

curl -V

To send a GET request to this api using curl follow this command:

curl https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1

To send a POST request to this api using curl follow this command:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"userId": 11,"id": 202,"title": "Backend", "completed": false}' https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos

• -X POST: This option specifies that we're sending a POST request.

• -H "Content-Type: application/json": This header sets the content type to JSON, indicating the format of the data we're sending in the request body.

• -d '{"userId": 11,"id": 202,"title": "Backend", "completed": false}' This option specifies the data to be sent in the request body.

To send a PUT request to this api using curl follow this command:

curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"userId": 1,"id": 2,"title": "API", "completed": false}' https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/2

To send a DELETE request to this api using curl follow this command:

curl -X DELETE https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/4

POSTMAN

Visit this website to download postman or use the web app:

https://www.postman.com/

RESOURCES

https://learning.postman.com/docs/getting-started/basics/navigating-postman/

https://oxylabs.io/blog/curl-post-requests

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/rest-api-introduction/

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/apis-for-beginners/

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OgcHNZGC8S5w9IKcBeNDrI_OvRODjKMQ2_gD5GFYkz4/edit?usp=sharing