Where is API used?

Web applications use APIs to connect user-facing front ends with all-important back end functionality and data . Streaming services like Spotify and Netflix use APIs to distribute content. Automotive companies like Tesla send software updates via APIs. Others use APIs to unlock car data for third-parties.

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What does it mean to build an API?

An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a set of established protocols for external programs to interact with your application . As you said, the users parsed the javascript and discovered the URL’s that you use, and then built programs using those URL’s to interact with your app.

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What is an API and how do you make it?

An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of functions that allows applications to access data and interact with external software components, operating systems, or microservices . To simplify, an API delivers a user response to a system and sends the system’s response back to a user.

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