{"id":82031,"date":"2018-01-19T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/arcgis-for-developers-improved-arcgis-rest-api-documentation\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:16:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:16:34","slug":"arcgis-for-developers-improved-arcgis-rest-api-documentation","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/\/uncategorized\/arcgis-for-developers-improved-arcgis-rest-api-documentation","title":{"rendered":"ArcGIS for Developers: Improved ArcGIS REST API Documentation"},"author":3791,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34731,25891,35541,29901,34741],"industry":[],"product":[36861,36601],"class_list":["post-82031","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apis","tag-arcgis","tag-devlabs","tag-documentation","tag-rest","product-api-rest","product-developers"],"acf":{"short_description":"As part of\u00a0the continued improvement\u00a0experience\u00a0when accessing developer\u00a0documentation,\u00a0we have migrated the ArcGIS REST API documen...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>As part of\u00a0the continued improvement\u00a0experience\u00a0when accessing developer\u00a0documentation,\u00a0we have migrated the ArcGIS REST API documentation from the ArcGIS Resources site to its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/rest\/\">new home<\/a>\u00a0on the ArcGIS for Developers site.<\/p>\n<h2>New Search, Organization and Updates<\/h2>\n<p>The new design highlights\u00a0search, a logical reorganization of the content, and updates to coincide with the latest\u00a0ArcGIS\u00a010.6 release.\u00a0 It also categorizes service information into the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location-based services<\/strong> &#8211; Esri services such as Geocoding, Routing and Demographics and how to interact with them;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Service reference<\/strong> &#8211; the entire REST API including on-premises services built into ArcGIS for Enterprise installations;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Users, groups, and items<\/strong> &#8211; Portal for ArcGIS administration for users and items;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enterprise administration<\/strong> &#8211; ArcGIS Enterprise administrative tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rest-api-search3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rest-api-search3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1856\" height=\"780\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>REST DevLabs<\/h2>\n<p>As part of the new design you will also find links to the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/labs\/browse\/?topic=any&amp;product=REST-API\">ArcGIS REST API DevLabs<\/a>\u00a0if you want to test-drive the services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rest-labs2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rest-labs2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2236\" height=\"874\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Share Your Feedback<\/h2>\n<p>We\u00a0will\u00a0continue making improvements to the REST API documentation including releasing additional DevLabs in the future. 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