{"id":5603,"date":"2025-10-27T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:06:24","slug":"rest-vs-soap-apis-the-key-differences-explained-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/rest-vs-soap-apis-the-key-differences-explained-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"REST vs SOAP APIs: The key differences explained for beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/website\/rest-vs-soap\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"SOAP vs REST APIs graphic with two sets of hands typing on laptops\" class=\"hs-featured-image lazyload\" style=\"width:auto !important;max-width:50%;float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5BUse-Oct-27-2025-08-29-49-7289-PM.webp\"> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Often, you don\u2019t need to choose between REST vs SOAP APIs when integrating your website with third-party services. That\u2019s because most modern web services use REST APIs to exchange data. Since REST was introduced, it has become popular among web developers due to its simplicity and scalability.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=53&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.hubspot.com%2Fwebsite%2Frest-vs-soap&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fblog.hubspot.com%252Fwebsite&amp;bvt=rss\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often, you don\u2019t need to choose between REST vs SOAP APIs when integrating your website with third-party services. That\u2019s because most modern web services use REST APIs to exchange data. Since REST was introduced, it has become popular among web developers due to its simplicity and scalability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5606,"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/5606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}