API and HTTP Actions

The Accurate Background API uses standard HTTP actions to add Candidates, place orders, and retrieve order results.

Resource name	HTTP Action	Pass Params
Create Resource	POST	Form Encoded or Application/JSON body
Retrieve Resource	GET	Query string params
Edit Resource	PUT	Form Encoded

For POST API calls, which create a resource, you can pass in a complete application/json request body as an alternative to using a lot of individual POST form parameters.

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Only POST commands support both application/x-www-form-urlencoded and application/json data. If you send application/json via a PUT API call you will receive an error.