How to work with the API correctly?

Question

PHP

Good afternoon. Can anyone share how to work with a third-party api? The site has a form, the data from which must be sent to the server and actually display the received response. If anyone can advise, I'll be grateful.

Answer 1

There are many HTTP clients for API testing, many even built into the IDE itself.
If you are familiar with VS Code, I will personally recommend REST Client
. If you do not use VS Code, then Postman is clearly suitable.

Answer 2

See what the browser sends to the form via f12 on the Network tab.
Play the same request in the Postman tool.
There is a Code button that translates this request into many popular programming languages, but forget about curl.