# Best Practices/Packages Interfacing with REST API

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-practices-packages-interfacing-with-rest-api/16838>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [October 26, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-practices-packages-interfacing-with-rest-api/16838 "2018-10-26T22:39:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_McVay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/paul_mcvay/32/4307_2.png) [@Paul\_McVay](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Paul_McVay)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-practices-packages-interfacing-with-rest-api/16838/1 "2018-10-26T22:39:03Z")

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I’m new to both Julia and REST API’s but I’ve become a huge fan of julia and want to do in depth data analysis in julia. The first step is getting the data from a REST api into julia to analyze. What are the best packages and practices to getting data from a REST API into Julia. All the packages that I’ve seen mentioned (http.jl, httpclient.jl, requests.jl) don’t have passing tests for the newest version of julia. So I’d thought I’d ask here for recommendations

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**Author:** ![sdmcallister](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sdmcallister/32/2324_2.png) [@sdmcallister](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdmcallister)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-practices-packages-interfacing-with-rest-api/16838/2 "2018-10-27T01:01:08Z")

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HTTP.jl has worked well for my use cases.