# Recipes and tools for debugging the API

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [April 2, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recipes-and-tools-for-debugging-the-api/222904 "2022-04-02T00:58:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recipes-and-tools-for-debugging-the-api/222904/1 "2022-04-02T00:58:07Z")

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Heya folks!

I was looking at [API 500 on user creation if username is integer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-500-on-user-creation-if-username-is-integer/222281) and can only kinda reproduce it, using `curl`. I’m looking through the docs to see if there is a useful output to capture to assist in figuring out what is happening, and then remember `httpie` as well…

And then I thought I’d just ping the [@support-explorers](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/support-explorers) and ask if they would share tools and recipes they use to debug the API! 🕶

**What do you use to troubleshoot and interact with the API?**

💻 🕸 🔍

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