4 Your API Hacking System
This chapter will walk you through setting up your API hacking toolkit. We’ll cover three especially useful tools for API hackers: Chrome DevTools, Burp Suite, and Postman.
In addition to exploring features included in the paid Burp Suite Pro version, I’ll provide a list of tools that can compensate for the features missing from the free Burp Suite Community Edition, as well as several other tools useful for discovering and exploiting API vulnerabilities. At the end of this chapter, we’ll walk through a lab in which you’ll learn to use some of these tools to interact with our first APIs.
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