# Introduction

Source: https://developers.swell.is/backend-api/introduction

The Swell Backend API is organized around REST principles. It uses predictable resource-oriented URLs, standard HTTP verbs, and response codes. It also accepts and returns JSON-encoded request and response bodies.

**Base URL**

```txt
https://api.swell.store
```

> **Note:** Official libraries for the Swell API are available for Node and PHP.