Application Programming Interfaces

Chris Bail
Duke University

website: https://www.chrisbail.net
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What is an Application Programming Interface (API)?

What is an Application Programming Interface (API)?

Growth of APIS

A list of APIs

There are now nearly 20,000 APIs and counting:

https://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory

How does an API work?

Simple example with Google Maps API

Anatomy of an API Call