30 Days of API Testing Day 5: Publicly Available APIs to Practice API Testing

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@sandeep.tester Looks like this API is a good start for beginners :+1:

Here I am adding the repo of this api, hope it helps the participants to understand some internal stuff of this api.

cheers

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I’ve been using the Meetup API in order to conveniently interrogate the raw data for Liverpool Tester Gathering. Authentic problems help me learn :slight_smile:

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I would like to recommend some public APIs as below

Or you could consider to create Mock Server to simulate real API for practice purpose by using

  • PostMan
  • Swagger

I tried, they are easy to use

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I am considering this is a useful resource for us to practice API Testing

It is a step-by-step instruction. Please see the below screenshot for an example of GET method.

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Task is Contribute to the list of publicly available APIs over on The Club, that we can utilise to practice API testing.

I wrote about it on my blog.

https://testingeduindia.blogspot.com/2018/11/day-4-contribute-to-list-of-publicly.html

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Adding some suggestions from Twitter:

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At site https://any-api.com you can get many public APIs from Google, Youtube. It is very easy to use and practice more.

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Hi oceannguyen,

Good sharing

With JSON Server, look like it just can work on local machine, is there any way to public it then I can share with my friends to practice on it?

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Hi @hongle,

Good question, you can install JSON Server on a server and public it to anyone using below command line

$ json-server --watch db.json --host <<server_ip>>

You can refer CLI usage for more details.

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A list of some publicly available APIs:

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My simple api test case on katalon URL: http://api.apigurus.com/iplocation/v1.8/locateip?key=xxxx&ip=125.212.208.58&format=JSON&capacity=6X and https://reqres.in

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I found the open API for the movie database below: http://www.omdbapi.com/
I believe it is good for our practice.

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Thanks @jvega. That’s where I got my pikachu :smiley:
Another API for game that similar to PokeAPI is:
https://developer.riotgames.com/api-methods/#champion-mastery-v3

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I used https://automationintesting.online/ to completed the excersise 1.

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I tried using RegRex for the first exercise. Refer to more public APIs here: https://github.com/abhishekbanthia/Public-APIs

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I learnt and practiced with the 2nd one you listed out (https://any-api.com/). Seems we have same sense this point :sunglasses:

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I use Postman to practice API testing

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There are some good resources I found to practice API testing:

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Hi guys,

I started a few API requests with site http://www.omdbapi.com. I found it quite useful and what bout yours? :slight_smile:

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I’ve used Transport for London API to practise on when I started out. Using Postman in the beginning just to start understanding at a basic level. I found it more useful using real data.

You need to create an account. They limit traffic requests up to a maximum of 300 calls per minute per data feed.

Below is the link:

https://api.tfl.gov.uk/

Any questions let me know.

Happy testing!

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