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REST API Guides

The REST API reference documentation is meant to provide a quick reference for all the endpoints and parameters available.

Guides​

The following guides, officially maintained by the Strapi Documentation team, cover dedicated topics and provide detailed explanations (guides indicated with 🧠) or step-by-step instructions (guides indicated with 🛠️) for some use cases:

Understanding populate" description="Learn what populating means and how you can use the populate parameter in your REST API queries to add additional fields to your responses." link="/dev-docs/api/rest/guides/understanding-populate How to populate creator fields" description="Read step-by-step instructions on how to build a custom controller that leverages the populate parameter to add 'createdBy' and 'updatedBy' data to queries responses" link="/dev-docs/api/rest/guides/populate-creator-fields

Additional resources​

Additional tutorials and guides can be found in the following blog posts: