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BaseX offers a RESTful API for accessing database resources via URLs.
REST ([httphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer REpresentational State Transfer])
facilitates a simple and fast access to databases through HTTP. The HTTP methods
GET, PUT, DELETE, and POST can be used to interact with the database.
The root URL lists all available databases. The following examples assume that
you have created a database instance from the [httphttps://files.basex.org/xml/factbook.xml factbook.xml] document:
:<code>http://localhost:8984/rest</code>
==Command Line==
Tools such as the Linux commands [httphttps://www.gnu.org/s/wget/ Wget] or [http://curl.haxx.se/ cURL] exist to
perform HTTP requests (try copy & paste):
