API Introduction​

Hello coders! I wanted to share a brief introduction to API(s)!

I recently helped with a thread that was asking a bit about API(s). Funny enough I heard about API(s) before but never actually knew what it meant. That is until now.

So what’s an API? An API is an abbreviation for Application Programming Interface. Developers can use an API to allow data communication between many different software applications and hardware. For example, let’s say you have a form on your website and you want it to create a tweet or send a message to a Slack channel. Using Twitter and Slack’s API, you would be able to accomplish this.

Of course, you should never access this data unless you have permission. So always seek permission first! An example of this could be by signing up to let’s say Twitters Developer Platform this is essentially permitting you to use their API.

I hope this helps! If I missed anything or something may be incorrect, please feel free to reply.

Inspired by this thread. @Chimer