<aside> <img src="/icons/binoculars_purple.svg" alt="/icons/binoculars_purple.svg" width="40px" /> At a glance: Get started using the OX Security GraphQL API. Here, you’ll find everything you need to get ready to write and test queries.
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<aside> 💡 Tip: The information in this article applies both to organizations that have already connected their own repositories and to those using demo data. So even if you’re still using demo data, there’s no need to wait to give our API a try!
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The OX Security API is built using the GraphQL framework, created and open-sourced by Meta. GraphQL is especially useful for building visualizations and powers the OX application on the web.
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Take a look at our Query reference to learn about the available API queries and get all the information you’ll need to start writing them.
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