BOND movies API

This is a simple REST API containing bond movies written in Node.js, with the help of Express.js and Nodemon.

Installation

1. Install node.js, unless you already have it installed.
2. Run npm install, to install dependencies.
3. Run npm run dev, to start the localhost server.
4. Install Postman for desktop, unless you already have it installed.
5. Start a request in postman to the localhost server.

API-endpoints

Remember to attach an API key to the request, see below in the docs!

GET all the movies

• Method: GET
• URL: /movies

In postman: send a request to the localhost server route /movies with the method GET. View the response in the response body as JSON object.

Expected response:

[
    {
        "Title": "Becoming Bond",
        "Year": "2017",
        "Rated": "TV-MA",
        "Released": "20 May 2017",
        "Runtime": "95 min",
        "Genre": "Documentary, Biography, Comedy",
        "Director": "Josh Greenbaum",
        "Writer": "Josh Greenbaum",
        ...
    }
]

GET a specific movie

• Method: GET
• URL: /movies/ID

Change ID to a specific movie id! For example tt6110504.

In postman: send a request to the localhost server route /movies/ID with the method GET. View the response in the response body as JSON object.

Expected response:

{
    "Title": "Becoming Bond",
    "Year": "2017",
    "Rated": "TV-MA",
    "Released": "20 May 2017",
    "Runtime": "95 min",
    "Genre": "Documentary, Biography, Comedy",
    "Director": "Josh Greenbaum",
    "Writer": "Josh Greenbaum",
    ...
}

POST a new movie

• Method: POST
• URL: /movies

In postman: add a new raw JSON object to the request body with the below example syntax:

{
    "movie": {
        "Title": "Bond: the history of Bond",
        "Year": "2023",
        "Released": "2 july 2023",
        "Genre": "Documentary"
    }
}

Required fields: Title, Year (numerical), Released, Genre.

Expected response: the new JSON object, for example in the above example.

PUT updated info into a specifik movie

• Method: PUT
• URL: /movies/ID

Change ID to a specific movie id! For example tt6110504.

In postman: add the updated info for the specific movie in a raw JSON object to the request body with the below example syntax:

{
    "movie": {
        "Year": "2024"
    }
}

Required fields: Title, Year (numerical), Released, Genre.

Expected response: the updated JSON movie object.

DELETE a specifik movie

• Method: DELETE
• URL: /movies/ID

Change ID to a specific movie id! For example tt6110504.

Expected response: { message: 'Movie successfully deleted' }

API KEY

This API uses a query API key. To make a request with an API key: request for http://localhost:PORT?apiKey=VALID_API_KEY, where PORT is changed to the localhost port the server is running on and change the VALID_API_KEY to your API key.

Psst! Try API_KEY = 8

POST a new API key

• Method: POST
• URL: /apiKeys

In postman: Start a POST request to /apiKeys?apiKey=VALID_API_KEY, the new apiKey is added to the request body as a raw JSON object with the following example syntax:

{
    "apiKey": "33"
}

Remember to put a valid API key as VALID_API_KEY in the URL!

Expected response: an array of all the valid API keys

DELETE a API key

• Method: DELETE
• URL: /apiKeys/API_KEY

In postman: set the API key you want to delete as a parameter to the URL, for example /apiKeys/33.

Expected response: { message: 'API key successfully deleted' }