Good evening, we have been given access to a 3rd Party API on behalf of a client to request live data from their systems using JSON. 

Where can I find good resources on how to request values and output them in a response ? most of the tutorials online are covering JSON files and how they work which is great but the actual server connections and response seems to be a little vague or really in-depth. 

We have used cURL with JSON before but this API looks a little more advanced and requires POST variables that are nested so how would you access them with a POST query.

Any help would be great.

 

Thanks

 

Hi there,

you could try using tools like Postman (https://www.postman.com/downloads/). 

According to any tutorial and/or help resources using 3rd party APIs over the internet - It is hard to tell where to start. Perhaps you could ask the vendor of this 3rd party API for any documentation / specifications.

-Ursel