How do I make calls to a REST API using C#?

Question

This is the code I have so far:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
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Answer 1

Check out Refit for making calls to REST services from .NET. I've found it very easy to use:

Refit: The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET

Refit is a library heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, and it turns your REST API into a live interface:

public interface IGitHubApi {
        [Get("/users/{user}")]
        Task GetUser(string user);
}

// The RestService class generates an implementation of IGitHubApi
// that uses HttpClient to make its calls:

var gitHubApi = RestService.For("https://api.github.com");

var octocat = await gitHubApi.GetUser("octocat");