# API Reference

The Picket API is organized around the principles of [REST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer). The API has predictable resource-oriented URLs, accepts [form-encoded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POST_\(HTTP\)#Use_for_submitting_web_forms) request bodies, returns [JSON-encoded](http://www.json.org/) responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.

**Just Getting Started?**

You can get up and running in minutes with our [quick start guides](https://docs.picketapi.com/picket-docs/quick-start-guides/quick-start-guides).

**The Open API 3.0 Spec**

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