In the meantime, the not-really-RESTful Web APIs have taken over the web. In the ProgrammableWeb index there are currently 12,199 APIs and counting, with over 6,000 being categorized as “RESTful”.

REST stands for Representational State Transfer, is more open in how it is coded, and is the more common type of API. You’ll often see them described as RESTful APIs too.

Nouns, verbs and well-formed URIs At the very least, a RESTful API respects REST's uniform interface constraint in two ways: Using nouns in RESTful URIs to ensure web service operations work on ...

RESTful APIs can be designed with many different endpoints that return different types of data. However, accessing multiple endpoints with a REST API requires multiple calls, which can slow down ...

REST APIs are the most common APIs used across the web. The challenge is that conventional methods to explore API behavior create a lot of friction.

Changes to a RESTful API are inevitable. However, unless you adhere to the best practices and ensure that the API is backward compatible, your changes can break the API’s compatibility with ...

REST API URL naming conventions The following list represents the standard set of REST API naming conventions and best practices that software architects should follow when they develop and design ...

This node allows you to call any RESTful API, and will provide the results for further processing. By double-clicking the node, you’ll see its parameters.

Solr has a HTTP/JSON-based API. However, it isn’t exactly a REST API because it doesn’t really follow any of the rules for a well-defined REST interface. I whine about this sometimes.

The command above will authenticate to the URI endpoint, pass the JSON sample via the HTTP POST method and tell the API that the content is JSON. If the API returns a response, Invoke-RestMethod will ...