practice-sites > swapi

In addition to our API Challenges you should practice on as many sites as possible. Try Swapi.

Swapi.dev - A Web Application which uses API

A Star Wars API App
Only supports the GET verb... or does it?

Exercise - Explore the API Via the APP

swapi.dev
- make a request from the GUI
- Use network tab to view the requests

Exercise - Use the API

Download a REST Client
Make some API calls that copy what the UI Did

Exercise - Explore the Docs

Swapi documentation
Read the docs
Use the docs as a basis for exploration
use an HTTP client to issue requests e.g. Postman, cURL, Insomnia.rest
try to generate different HTTP Status codes: 200, 400, 404, 405
experiment with different HTTP Verbs: GET, POST, OPTIONS, HEAD

HTTP OPTIONS Verb - Example swapi.dev

Swapi has a very unusual OPTIONS output

e.g. swapi.dev

OPTIONS - https://swapi.dev/api/people/1/

{
    "name": "People Instance",
    "description": "",
    "renders": [
        "application/json",
        "text/html",
        "application/json"
    ],
    "parses": [
        "application/json",
        "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
        "multipart/form-data"
    ]
}

Hint: Swapi supports GET, OPTIONS and HEAD - try them all, then double check this statement. (Trust no-one).