> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://swyco.gitbook.io/api/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://swyco.gitbook.io/api/introduction.md).

# Introduction

The SWYCO API is organized around [REST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer).

Our API has

* predictable resource-oriented URLs
* accepts JSON-encoded request bodies
* returns JSON-encoded responses
* and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs