To help you develop your ideas before you start committing code to your project, it’s useful to use a command line tool like curl to help you experiment with the API. Curl comes pre-installed on macOS and most Linux distributions, and can be downloaded for Windows from the curl website. If you’re downloading Curl, be sure to select a package with SSL support. We’ll use Curl throughout the examples in this section.
Here are a few steps to help you get started: