Reverse engineering a private API with Joyce Lin
PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket
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How to Reverse Engineering an API
There was a fun post on hacker news about someone reverse engineering an API to get quote-unquote Extra bacon. So I think part of it is just under Having visibility right so if you're if you're a web dev you totally know like opening up Maybe your browser's dev tools and seeing network calls can be super eye-opening. If you have like tiktok has a ton of query parameters, they have very complicated expectations for payloads going Being sent to the servers and also being returnedSo postman lets you parse that a little bit more easily and see everything Broken down into key value pairs and such That's really interesting Yeah, I guess like what are some techniques that we
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