The API tester

The IDE includes a tester for HTTP requests, in a tab beside the editor. It is there so that checking an endpoint does not mean switching to another tool.

What you can set

• The method and URL. The usual HTTP methods.
• Params. Query parameters, as a list rather than a string you assemble yourself.
• Authorization. Credentials for the request.
• Headers. Whatever the endpoint expects.

The response comes back in the same panel, so a request and what it returned stay together.

Calling an API from your code

The tester is separate from your program reaching the internet. A program that makes its own HTTP calls needs internet access, which is off by default and available to the account owner on paid plans.

So the tester works regardless of plan; a program calling out does not.

What next

Theme, font size and completions are set in the editor settings.

If you are calling the API from your own code, the Compiler API is the reference for it.