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REST API Test

This document introduces the REST API test tool provided by Kakao Developers.

Overview

Kakao Developers provides a REST API test tool for testing, developing, and debugging with REST APIs.

You can test API calls in [Tools] > [REST API Test].

Description

Composition of REST API test tool

🅐 API List: Select one of the APIs to test. 🅑 App: [developers-sample] is set as default, select another test app by clicking the list icon next to the app name. 🅒 API information: Describes the feature of selected API. 🅓 Authentication: Select authentication information for the request header. Each API supports different authentication methods. See How to use. 🅔 Parameter: Set the request parameter values.

Specifications in REST API test tool

🅕 Request: Describes the request parameters of the selected API. 🅖 Response: Describes the keys and values in response of selected API.

Response example in REST API test tool

🅗 Response example: Shows the examples of the response.

How to use

  1. Configure 🅓 Authentication as follows, depending on the selected method.
    • Access token: Select the scope of user information that can be retrieved with the access token after clicking [Issue token].
    • Business token: Select the business assets and permission scopes accessible with a business token after clicking [Issue token].
    • REST API key: No configuration required.
    • Admin key: Testing with an admin key is not allowed for security reasons. (See Devtalk.)
  2. Configure the required 🅕 Parameter values. Items marked with * are required parameters and must be configured.
  3. Select [Send] to call the API with the configured information.

You can view the request example and the corresponding response.

Response and request example in REST API test tool

🅘 HTTP status code: Shows the HTTP status code in response. Refer to Response code. 🅙 Response body: Shows the response body in response. 🅚 Request code example: A request example you can use to test directly in your development environment.