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# JSON API
In addition to the web UI, hledger-web provides some API routes that
serve JSON in response to GET requests. (And when started with `--serve-api`,
it provides only these routes.):
In addition to the web UI, hledger-web also serves a JSON API that can be
used to get data or add new transactions.
If you only want the JSON API, run with the `--serve-api` flag.
You can GET JSON data from these routes:
```
/accountnames
/transactions
@ -215,13 +218,13 @@ it provides only these routes.):
/accounttransactions/#AccountName
```
Also, you can append a new transaction to the journal by sending a PUT request to `/add` (hledger-web only).
As with the web UI's add form, hledger-web must be started with the `add` capability for this (enabled by default).
And you can add a new transaction to the journal with a PUT request to `/add`,
if hledger-web was started with the `add` capability (enabled by default).
Note the payload must be the full exact JSON representation of a hledger transaction
(partial JSON won't do).
You can download some sample JSON from `/transactions` or `/accounttransactions`,
or export it using hledger-lib's `writeJsonFile` helper (there's also `readJsonFile` for testing):
The payload must be the full, exact JSON representation of a hledger transaction
(partial data won't do).
You can get sample JSON from `/transactions` or `/accounttransactions`,
or you can export it with hledger-lib's `writeJsonFile` helper, like so:
```shell
$ make ghci-web
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$ curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/add -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary @txn.json
```
By default, both the server-side HTML UI and the JSON API are served.
Running with `--serve-api` disables the former, useful if you only want to serve the API.
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