# Interex API Documentation

## Welcome

Welcome to the Interex API Documentation site. The site is currently a work in progress, if you cannot find information that you require then please get in contact with us.

## API Reference

The Interex API is a [REST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer) based API. The API has resource-oriented URLS, accepts [JSON-encoded](http://www.json.org/) request bodies, return [JSON-encoded](http://www.json.org/) responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes,
authentication and verbs.

If you want to find out some more background information on **REST APIs** then check out the [REST Introduction](/docs/tutorials/rest).