01. Sending your First Request
Learn to send your first request with the API app
Prerequisites
- Environment snippet should be set
Directions
To demonstrate this action we'll use the JSON placeholder API to test various operations.
- Select the request method
POST
from either the drop-down menu or the Quick Method Selection section. - Set the following
https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts
API end-point in the URL bar. - Select a
body type
asJSON
from drop-down. Add body as shown below
{
"userId": 102,
"id": 102,
"title": "This is request title",
"body": "This is request body"
}
- Hit enter and wait for API response.

Additional information:
To test out APIs smoothly and to facilitate a quick response, create multiple bodies as instructed below:
- Navigate to the tiny
+
icon in the top right corner of the Request Panel and click on it. - Enter a name for your body in the name field with the placeholder
New Body Name
and hit enter. - You can either create a new body or copy the current body by checking the checkbox below the name field.
- Test you the API using different bodies smoothly.

Voila! Now you know how to send your first request.