Reads a plain-text body and counts its bytes, characters, lines and words

POSThttps://api.testingapis.com/api/bodies/textSign in to see this endpoint's URL

Up to 1MB is analysed; larger bodies are counted and flagged with truncated.

Request body

Optional. text/plain. Plain text; counts characters, lines and words.

Example body

Hello
world

Responses

200: Text statistics and the text itself.
400: Body is not valid UTF-8.
415: Content-Type is not text/plain.

Example

Request

curl -X POST "https://api.testingapis.com/api/bodies/text" \
  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  -d 'Hello
world' \
  -H "X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response200 OK

{
  "contentType": "text/plain",
  "bytes": 11,
  "characters": 11,
  "lines": 2,
  "words": 2,
  "truncated": false,
  "text": "Hello\nworld"
}

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api.testingapis.com

curl -X POST 'https://api.testingapis.com/api/bodies/text' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-TestingApis-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d 'Hello
world'

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/bodies/text", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "text/plain",
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
  body: "Hello\nworld",
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

// The shape of the example response in the docs.
type ApiResponse = {
  contentType: string;
  bytes: number;
  characters: number;
  lines: number;
  words: number;
  truncated: boolean;
  text: string;
};

const res = await fetch("https://api.testingapis.com/api/bodies/text", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "text/plain",
    "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
  body: "Hello\nworld",
});
const body = (await res.json()) as ApiResponse;
console.log(res.status, body);

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.testingapis.com/api/bodies/text",
    headers={
        "Content-Type": "text/plain",
        "X-TestingApis-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
    data="Hello\nworld",
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)

using System.Net.Http.Headers;

using var client = new HttpClient();
using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://api.testingapis.com/api/bodies/text");
request.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
request.Content = new StringContent("""
    Hello
    world
    """);
request.Content.Headers.ContentType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse("text/plain");
using var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine($"{(int)response.StatusCode} {await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync()}");

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.testingapis.com/api/bodies/text"))
                .header("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
                .header("Content-Type", "text/plain")
                .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("""
                Hello
                world
                """))
                .build();
        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.statusCode() + " " + response.body());
    }
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader(`Hello
world`)
	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.testingapis.com/api/bodies/text", body)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("X-TestingApis-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "text/plain")
	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()
	data, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(res.StatusCode, string(data))
}

POSThttps://api.testingapis.com/api/bodies/text