FAKE Stories RESTFUL API |

usmanlive presents a fake restful api for my students to practice api calls. Consult following Table for reference

Route	Method	Input	Output	Comments	Test
http://usmanlive.com/wp-json/api/stories	GET	–	–	Returns an array of stories	Try It Yourself
http://usmanlive.com/wp-json/api/stories/:id	GET	–	–	Replace :id with the id of the story to fetch a single record	Try It Yourself
http://usmanlive.com/wp-json/api/stories/:id	DELETE	–	–	Replace :id with the id of the story to Delete	Try It Yourself
http://usmanlive.com/wp-json/api/stories	POST	{“title”:”–“,”content”:”–“}		Submit a new story to add	Try It Yourself
http://usmanlive.com/wp-json/api/stories/:id	PUT	{“title”:”–“,”content”:”–“}	–	Replace :id with the id of the story to Edit	Try It Yourself

Hit Refresh Stories to refresh data

Visit JQuery/Bootstrap based Single page frontend which accesses above restful api

Source Code for the above example can be found here

You can try https://reqbin.com/ to send api hits to test the above restful api

API Authentication

API Authentication can be done in numerous ways. One was is to use JSON Web Tokens. UsmanLive also present how a json web token based authentication can be implemented via following routes

Route	Method	Input	Comments	try
http://usmanlive.com/wp-json/api/auth/register	POST	{“name”:”-“,”email”:”-“,”password”:”-“}	Registers a User if not registered already else returns an error	Try It Yourself
http://usmanlive.com/wp-json/api/auth/login	POST	{“email”:”-“,”password”:”usman”}	Returns a JSON Web Token	Try It Yourself
http://usmanlive.com/wp-json/api/auth/protected	POST	x-auth-token token set as header	Protected Route. Token is required	Try It Yourself