How to complete the challenge GET /todos (200) ? filter id greater than

By Alan Richardson · Published 2026-07-31

How to issue a GET request on a top level entity endpoint and filter todos by ids greater than a supplied value.

GET /todos (200) ? filter id greater than

Issue a GET request on the /todos end point with an id filter to return todos with an id greater than a supplied value.

• id>5 means return todos where the id is greater than 5
• most tools and browsers will encode the > symbol for you when sending the request
• the response should contain at least one todo
• the response should be a subset of the current todos, not the full list
• every returned todo should have an id greater than the threshold

Basic Instructions

• Issue a GET request to end point "/todos"
  • https://apichallenges.com/todos
• The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header to track challenge completion
• Add an id greater-than filter:
  • https://apichallenges.com/todos?id>5
• The response status code should be 200 because the request is accepted
• Check that every returned todo has an id greater than 5

Try it now

If you need to check which todo ids are available, use GET /todos. See the solution.

GET /todos to see the available todo ids

The sample below uses id>5; edit the threshold if your current data needs a different subset.

GET /todos?id>5 to return todos with ids greater than 5

Example Request

> GET /todos?id>5 HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.com
> User-Agent: rest-client
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Accept: application/json

Example Response

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: application/json
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid

Returned body:

{
  "todos": [
    { "id": 6, "title": "higher id todo", "doneStatus": false, "description": "" }
  ]
}

Experiment with this endpoint