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.