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<#958013993425960971>  I am new to Cypress and trying to automate API test cases. I am unable to find any documentation and videos with latest changes of Cypress to start with API set-up. I have installed all dependencies and cypress. Created API test cases under e2e folder since there is no Integration folder available. When i try executing it is always showing cypress welcome screen with E2E and component testing options and browser to select. Please help me with set-up and configurations anything needs to be added for API test automation. Thanks

Hi! There is no “API testing” mode of Cypress, API tests are written using the cy.request() command and most people write them as end-to-end tests. If you set up end to end testing you should be fine to start.

There is some recent content on this by <@689469887550455842> https://filiphric.com/cypress-basics-api-testing

Plus he has this great plugin to add some UI display for the results of your tests https://github.com/filiphric/cypress-plugin-api

Hope this helps!

<@437702410945953802> Thank you so much. I have added the plug-in and created my first API test case. When I start the run using npx cypress open command cypress is opening and though i did the configuration as E2E and chrome browser still it is showing the same page every time when i start the runner. Is this expected behaviour? how can i make the default selection for this? Can you please help me.

you can do `npx cypress open --e2e --browser chrome` to skip the welcome page and the browser selection step