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Hi,

Had a chat on irc, and it wasn't clear for the user that you could alter the query field in the api explorer to add extra params,
eg if you select entity contact & param get it runs

/civicrm/ajax/rest?entity=Contact&action=Get

and you can then add extra param
/civicrm/ajax/rest?entity=Contact&action=Get&contact_type=Individual&group=42 and see the result with these new filters

I realised that it's far from obvious that you can do it. Any idea to make it more obvious? or change in the interface in general?

I thought it was reasonably intuitive and the manual parameter thing is a feature I use all the time.

It really is an excellent learning and prototyping tool.

The only thing that I'd love is a link to it from the civi admin menu (but maybe there already is one?).

Not sure about a link from the admin  menu - people assume (reasonably) that they can't easily break things from the admin menu - you can do some pretty destructive things from API explorer.