# 05 Performing CRUD operations on an API (JSON)

## Instruction video's

The video's below explain some of the basic rules about doing **asynchronous CRUD operations** **on a web service** in C#.
You are free to watch them whenever you want, but (as was announced in the theory classes)

## From JSON data to a C# class

Make sure you watch this video on how to manually analyse the JSON data and translate it to a C# class to avoid headaches in the future when using existing API's!

API overview of the endpoints used in the video:

[https://programming-quotes-api.herokuapp.com/](https://programming-quotes-api.herokuapp.com/)

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## GET data async

In this video, we will get a random quote object and a list of quotes.

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## Manipulate (PUT/POST/DELETE) data async

Note that all methods in this video contain **sample code** on how to do these operations, however they will not actually work with this API.

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