Introducing CURL and Postman
In this section, we'll look at a couple of developer tools for working with APIs. As we've discussed, APIs are designed to be used in code. However, during the development process, you'll often want to call an API endpoint without writing code to get familiar with the functionality or for testing. To do that, there are a number of developer tools available. Two of the most popular developer tools for working with APIs are CURL and Postman.
CURL
CURL is a popular command-line tool for making HTTP requests. It's been around since 1998, so it's very mature and widely used. Many API publishers, including OpenAI, provide API examples, using CURL syntax in their documentation. The following screenshot shows an example of the CURL syntax used in the OpenAI API docs. So, even if CURL isn't the tool you decide to use in the long run, it's helpful to be familiar with it.
The following screenshot shows CURL syntax in the...
