The Unsplash API uses HTTP verbs appropriate to each action performed by a user.

Verb	Description
GET	Retrieving resources.
POST	Creating resources.
PUT	Updating resources.
DELETE	Deleting resources.

Status Codes & Error Responses

These API queries return HTTP status codes or error responses that describe the query status.

Status Code	Description
200-Ok	Everything worked as expected
400- Bad Request	The request was unacceptable, often due to missing a required parameter
401- Unauthorized	Invalid Access Token
403 - Forbidden	Missing permissions to perform request
404 - Not Found	The requested resource doesn’t exist
500, 503	Something went wrong on our end

INFO

It's important to note that a status 200 - Ok might be returned even when a record is not found or when a wrong param is passed.Always double down with the example response to ensure you getting the right response.

Authorization

All of the requests that we will be running moving forward will require we pass our application’s access key via the HTTP Authorization header.

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Whenever we pass in client_id as a query param the value will be YOUR_ACCESS_KEY.

So our URL will be something like this 👇

HTTP Verbs

Status Codes & Error Responses#

Authorization#

Status Codes & Error Responses

Authorization