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Commonly used REST API URLs in SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint 2010 Rest API was limited to for fetching the list data, in SharePoint 2013 Rest API covers all the functionality covered by CSOM. Please find below a list of all the Sharepoint Rest API end points.

_spPageContextInfo.webServerRelativeUrl will return the relative url which can be combined with _api part.
  
Rest API URL
Description
http://sharepoint.com/_api/site
Site collection object
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web
Site object
http://sharepoint.com/_api/site/url
Site collection URL property
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web/lists
Site list collection
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web/lists/getbyTitle(‘Contacts’)
Site lists collection Method
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web/lists/getbyTitle(‘Contacts’)/Items
List items collection, selects all the fields in the Contacts list
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web/lists/getbyTitle(‘Contacts’)/Items?
$select=Title
Select title field in contacts list
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web/lists/getbyTitle(‘Contacts’)/Items?
$select=Title,Description&$order=Modified
Select title and description field and order by last modified date.
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web/lists/getbyTitle(‘Contacts’)/Items?
$filter=FirstName eq ‘Dinesh’
Returns the item from the contact list for which the first name is Dinesh
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web/lists/getbyTitle(‘Contacts’)/Items?
$filter=startswith(FirstName,’D’)
Returns all items from the contacts list for which the first name starts with D
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web/lists/getbyTitle(‘Contacts’)/Items?
$filter=month(Modified) eq 4
Returns all items from the contacts list modified in April.
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web/lists/getbyTitle(‘Contacts’)/Items?$top=5
Returns the first five items in the contacts list.
http://sharepoint.com/_api/sp.userprofiles.Peoplemanager/
getmyProperties
For getting the user profile properties
http://sharepoint.com/_api/sp.userprofiles.Peoplemanager/
getmyProperties(@v)?@v=’Dinesh’
For getting the user profile properties of the Dinesh.
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web/sitegroups
For getting all the groups of a site object.
http://sharepoint.com/_api/web/sitegroups/getbyid(4)/Users
For getting all the users of a group.
http://sharepoint.com/_api/search/query
Used to run search queries by using HTTP Get
http://sharepoint.com/_api/search/postquery
Used to run search queries by using HTTP post to overcome Url length limitations
http://sharepoint.com/_api/search/suggest
Used to retrieve query suggestions by using Http Get



These are some of the basic REST API urls which we use frequently. I will be updating the above list with some more REST API urls. 
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