# Interu API Documentation ## Welcome Welcome to the Interu API Documentation site. The site is currently a work in progress, if you cannot find information that you require then please get in contact with us. ## API Reference The Interu API is organized around [REST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer). Our API has resource-oriented URLS, accepts [JSON-encoded](http://www.json.org/) request bodies, return [JSON-encoded](http://www.json.org/) responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication and verbs. If you want to find out some more background information on **REST APIs** then check out the [REST Introduction](/docs/tutorials/rest). ## How to Use Our REST APIs If you want to read more about how to start using the Interu REST API then check out [Getting Started](/docs/tutorials/howtouse).