Playgrounds
Looking for a quick and easy way to start playing with dotCMS and our APIs?
Get started now! Select from one of the playgrounds below or try our open, fully functional online demo.
Rest API Playground
dotCMS REST API playground includes:
- ContentAPI
- LayoutAPI
- AuthenticationAPI
- ElasticSearch
- NavigationAPI
GraphQL
Explore the dotCMS GraphQL playground:
- PageAPI
- PageRender
- ContainerRender
- ContentAPI
- relationshipQuery
ImageAPI
Dynamically Optimize and Adjust:
- Format
- Image Compression
- Focal Point
- Resize & Crop
- Brightness/Hue/Saturation
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dotCMS Helps CarFinance 247 Speed Into the Modern Era
CarFinance 247 is one of the largest car finance brokers in the UK. With dotCMS’ help, they updated their outdated website and made it easier for marketers to update content without getting developer assistance.
Before dotCMS, we were wasting a small team of developers on website maintenance. With dotCMS Cloud, we have completely freed up our development team and no longer have to worry about bandwidth, security, upgrades and patches-- dotCMS takes care of all that.