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Unlocking Innovation with APIs: The Key to Effortless Data Sharing
WHAT IS API ?
API stands for Application Programming Interface. In simple terms, an API is a set of rules and protocols that allows different software operations to communicate and interact with each other.
EXAMPLE
Assume you are building a weather application for smartphones. Instead of collecting and maintaining all the weather data yourself, consider using a weather API to access the necessary information from a weather service provider. This way, you can provide up-to-date weather information to your users without any hassle.
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You, as the developer, integrate the weather into your application. The documentation provided by the weather service provider gives you information about how to make requests and retrieve weather data.
When a user opens your weather application and wants to know the current weather in a specific location, they enter the location details (such as a city name) within your application’s user interface.
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Your application takes the user’s input and makes a request to the weather , specifying the desired location.
The weather receives the request and understands that you want weather data for a particular location.
The weather communicates with the weather service provider’s database or server, retrieves the weather information for the specified location, and packages it in a format that can be easily understood and processed by your application.
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The weather sends the fetched weather data back to your application in a structured format (such as JSON).
Your application receives the weather data from the and displays it to the user in a user-friendly manner, such as showing the temperature, humidity, and weather conditions for the requested location.
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