Rest API for Joomla

com_api is an extension that adds RESTful APIs to Joomla. APIs bridge a key gap in Joomla - being able to create Mobile apps and also create decoupled frontends using tools like AngularJS. These are of course the simplest use cases. You can build powerful integrations with other systems and automate a lot of your workflows with APIs. You can install com_api like any other extension, and extend it easily using the plugin system. Plugins already exist for articles, categories and users. Plugins also exist for some 3rd party extensions like Easysocial and Easyblog. It is easy to write your own plugin, in fact we encourage you to develop and share plugins for unsupported extensions. The com_api component and most plugins are available for free.

Features Overview

Features

Support for core extensions

Plugins currently exist for Joomla articles, categories and user management.

Plugins for extensibility

It is very easy to expose existing functionality by adding plugins and API resources. In fact if your code is ready in the form of models / table classes it is very convenient to create a plugin that provides the same via an API endpoint. More information about developing your own plugins is available in the documentation

Logs

Once enabled, the request logs will help you trace incoming requests since they will be logged into the database. This will help debugging any issues faced by API consumers.

Rate Limiting

It's possible to rate limit the API calls made by a consumer to avoid misuse of the APIs.

CORS Support

Configuration is provided to enable/disable CORS support for APIs. It is also possible to specify specific domains for which CORS is enabled.

Documentation and Support

Commercial Support & Custom Development

For those who want to start using it right away & want commercial support or need custom plugins or applications developed to use the api in your own unique way, feel free to contact us. We can help you extend this in the best way possible. Contact us today for a discussion

Community Help & Discussions

To help foster a developer community around this project, we have opened up a forum to discuss the REST API Project. Do jump on to the forums !

Contributing

The component code is available on Github. Developers are welcome to send in Pull Requests for features and bugs. If you want to build a feature, we encourage you to post an issue first so that it can be discussed appropriately to arrive at a sound technical design for the feature. That way the feature can be generic and easily merged into the code.

If you wish to improve or add plugins, head over to the plugins repository.

Writing your own plugins

It's very straightforward to create your own API plugin. Head over to the documentation to learn how to do that - techjoomla.github.io/com_api

Product News

REST API v2.5 - Social Login for Joomla Mobile Apps using JFBConnectPosted 04-July-2019
Joomla REST API v2.4 released with User Impersonation SupportPosted 15-April-2019
Joomla REST API extension com_api version 2.2 releasedPosted 11-August-2017
The REST api is now Joomla 1.6 compatiblePosted 11-August-2011
Joomla finally takes a REST!Posted 23-March-2011

Summary

Latest Version

2.5.0 Stable

Extension Type

C P

Joomla Compatibility

2.5 3.x

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