Design and Build Great Web APIs

Solution for Chapter 1: Getting Started with API First

In the ​Chapter Exercise​, the task is to use the curl command-line tool to pull a series of responses from three related services (company, account, and activity) and save them to disk for later reference. Here is a step-by-step solution.

First, create a folder called services on your local drive and then change directories to move into that newly created services folder:

mca@mamund-ws:~/$ mkdir services
mca@mamund-ws:~/$ cd services
mca@mamund-ws:~/services$

Next, using the list supplied in the ​Chapter Exercise​, as a guide, start to pull the API responses from the services and save them to disk. Here’s one way to do this:

mca@mamund-ws:~/services$ curl