REST API Call Sample Code #snippet

rest-api-sample-javascript.js

// Vanilla JS - GET
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', 'https://reqres.in/api/users', true);
xhr.onload = function () {
  console.log(xhr.responseText)
};
xhr.send(null);

// Vanilla JS - POST
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('POST', 'https://reqres.in/api/users', true);
xhr.onload = function () {
  console.log(xhr.responseText)
};
xhr.send({"name": "tony", "job": "engineer"});

// JQuery Ajax - GET
$.ajax({
  url: 'https://reqres.in/api/users',
  type: 'get',
  dataType: 'json',
  success: function(data) {
    console.log(data)
  },
  error: function(error) {
    console.log(error)
  }
});

// JQuery Ajax - POST
$.ajax({
  url: 'https://reqres.in/api/users',
  type: 'post',
  data: {
    "name": "morpheus",
    "job": "leader"
  },
  dataType: 'json',
  success: function(data) {
    console.log(data)
  },
  error: function(error) {
    console.log(error)
  }
});

rest-api-sample-python.py

import requests
import json
import urllib

# GET Request
url = 'https://reqres.in/api/users'
getResponse = requests.get(url)

# Print Response Status Code and Body
print getResponse.status_code, getResponse.text

# Convert response to JSON
jsonGetResponse = json.loads(getResponse.text)['data']

for user in jsonGetResponse:
  print user['first_name'], user['last_name']
  
#################################

# POST requests
url = 'https://reqres.in/api/users'
data = {"name": "John", "job": "Engineer"}
postResponse = requests.post(url, json=data)

# Print Response Status Code and Body
print postResponse.status_code, postResponse.text

# Convert response to JSON
jsonPostResponse = json.loads(postResponse.text)

print jsonPostResponse['createdAt']