# Openemr REST api support

**URL:** <https://community.open-emr.org/t/openemr-rest-api-support/6554>\
**Category:** OpenEMR Development\
**Created:** [July 29, 2013, 7:11am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/openemr-rest-api-support/6554 "2013-07-29T07:11:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 7:11am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/openemr-rest-api-support/6554/1 "2013-07-29T07:11:51Z")

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**[sunilkm-02](https://sourceforge.net/u/sunilkm-02/)** wrote on [Monday, July 29, 2013](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/9717a0e6/#eae5):

I am new to OpenEMR. I have successfully installed OpenEMR into my system as stated in the documentation. I read that OpenEMR supports JSON. How can I get the list of patients that has been created through a simple JSON api? What will be the JSON format and also what will be the corresponding resource URL ?  
There is a client where i want to show this list information!

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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/openemr-rest-api-support/6554/2 "2013-07-29T23:27:27Z")

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**[tmccormi](https://sourceforge.net/u/tmccormi/)** wrote on [Monday, July 29, 2013](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202506/thread/9717a0e6/#97b1):

I’m not sure where you heard that. JSON is used internally in various places to exchange information between programs. There is no general API for JSON (or anything else) at this time. This is an old source code base, it does not use resource URLS like current application frameworks do. You actually have to write PHP and MySQL code to do things … 🙂

Someday soon it will be time to refactor the system into a modern framework…

–Tony

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