Intro

Postman [already post about it]

I already did a post about PostMAN, quite useful tool. There are two versions actually, on for the browser and another for desktop running.

cURL [1]

Straightway to test requests since gives results right on the spot in the console, therefore you can see it or send it to a file.

combined with jSON placeholder

curl https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/3

curl -i: gives several things

curl -I: header

to send to file: curl -o test.txt https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/3

to send data: curl –data “title=hello&body=Hello World” https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts

 

JSONPlaceholder

Basically, a fake API to do tests.

Getting 100 posts:

https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts

Getting a post with id n

https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts

– You can actually post data, though it won’t be saved, it will be accepted.

 

REFs

https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/

https://curl.haxx.se/