Testing API Calls

Nikki Burgess
Hi Guys!

Our main developer portal has so many different API endpoints you can use when building out your own application. 

If you are like me and have found yourself needing run a one-off type test, just to see what that endpoint returns, my favorite tool for testing is Postman!  Postman is super easy to download and very straight forward.

Here you can see a short example of making the grant type password call
Postman makes adding all of those parameters a breeze!


What are your favorite API tools?



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Nikki Burgess | Technical Solutions Engineer ||
nikki.burgess@act-on.com
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    Sean Chu
    I like Runscope.com. This awesome web based tool can be used to monitor API calls in live environments by simply changing your request URL. These custom buckets and helper URLs offer passthrough logging to watch (in realtime) all of the API events traveling through your request URL.

    Sign up for their trial account to check it out! (P.S. it never actually expires but you didn't hear that from me)

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    Sean Chu
    Sr Solutions Engineer, Act-On Software
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    Original Message:
    Sent: 09-26-2017 17:45
    From: Nikki Burgess
    Subject: Testing API Calls

    Hi Guys!

    Our main developer portal has so many different API endpoints you can use when building out your own application.

    If you are like me and have found yourself needing run a one-off type test, just to see what that endpoint returns, my favorite tool for testing is Postman!  Postman is super easy to download and very straight forward.

    Here you can see a short example of making the grant type password call.
    Postman makes adding all of those parameters a breeze!


    What are your favorite API tools?



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    Nikki Burgess | Technical Solutions Engineer ||
    nikki.burgess@act-on.com
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