need help to better understand retro-engineering of a specific website

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  • I've found these two projects (garmindb and tapiriik) that have managed to programmatically log in and interact with the API. Reading and understand their code is one thing, but I'm wondering... how did they manage to retro-engineer that specific API? I'm obviously missing some technical knowledge to listen to all these http messages during browser log in and interactions, even though I've achieved it for a good few other websites. What am I missing?

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  • I've found these two projects (garmindb and tapiriik) that have managed to programmatically log in and interact with the API. Reading and understand their code is one thing, but I'm wondering... how did they manage to retro-engineer that specific API? I'm obviously missing some technical knowledge to listen to all these http messages during browser log in and interactions, even though I've achieved it for a good few other websites. What am I missing?

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