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This quickstart guide will provide a simple introduction to using DummyAPI. Below, you’ll find a selection of example endpoints to help you start integrating data into your applications.

Fetch all movies

JavaScript

fetch('https://dummyapi.online/api/movies')
    .then((response) => response.json())
    .then((json) => console.log(json));

Python

import requests
import json

response = requests.get('https://dummyapi.online/api/movies')
if response.status_code == 200:
    data = json.loads(response.text)
    print(data)

Output

[
  {
    id: 1,
    movie: 'The Shawshank Redemption',
    rating: 9.2,
    image: 'images/shawshank.jpg',
    imdb_url: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/'
  },
  {
    id: 2,
    movie: 'The Godfather',
    rating: 9.2,
    image: 'images/godfather.jpg',
    imdb_url: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/'
  },
  ...
]

Fetch a single movie

Getting a single entry of a certain resource. In this example, we use the /api/movies/1 route.

JavaScript

fetch('https://dummyapi.online/api/movies/1')
    .then((response) => response.json())
    .then((json) => console.log(json));

Python

import requests
import json

response = requests.get('https://dummyapi.online/api/movies/1')
if response.status_code == 200:
    data = json.loads(response.text)
    print(data)

Output

{
  id: 1, movie: 'The Shawshank Redemption',
  rating: 9.2, image: 'images/shawshank.jpg',
  imdb_url: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/'
}

Create a User

This allows you to create a new entry in our users route. Be aware that you can’t create a new user with an id that already exists.

Note: At this moment we only support creating new resources in the /api/users route.

JavaScript

fetch('https://dummyapi.online/api/users', {
      method: 'POST',
      body: JSON.stringify({
        id: 11,
        name: "Elon Musk",
        username: "elonmusk",
        email: "elonmusk@planet.mars"
        }),
        headers: {
        'Content-type': 'application/json'
        },
      })
        .then((response) => response.json())
        .then((json) => console.log(json));

Python

import requests
import json

url = 'https://dummyapi.online/api/users'
headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json'}

data = {
    'id': 11,
    'name': 'Elon Musk',
    'username': 'elonmusk',
    'email': 'elonmusk@planet.mars'
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data)

if response.status_code == 200:
    print(json.loads(response.text))
else:
    print(f"Failed to make the request. Status code: {response.status_code}")

Output

{
  "message": "User created successfully:",
  id: 11,
  name: "Elon Musk",
  username: "elonmusk",
  email: "elonmusk@planet.mars"
}

Important: Please note that resources will not be actually updated on our server, but you will receive a legitimate response as if they were!