Finding Hidden APIs

Many websites use internal APIs to fetch data. Finding these APIs can give you clean, structured data without HTML parsing.

What Are Hidden APIs?

Finding APIs with DevTools

Analyzing API Requests

Converting cURL to Python

Common API Patterns

GraphQL APIs

Headers and Authentication

Example: E-commerce API

Handling Dynamic Tokens

Complete API Discovery Workflow

Key Takeaways

• Modern websites often use internal APIs
• Use DevTools Network tab to find API calls
• Look for XHR/Fetch requests returning JSON
• Copy as cURL to test endpoints
• Convert cURL to Python requests
• Replicate necessary headers
• Handle authentication tokens
• APIs are faster and cleaner than HTML scraping
• Always check for APIs before scraping HTML