A No-Nonsense Guide To Working With Web APIs

Everything you need to know about using APIs

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Better Programming

7 min readJul 18, 2019

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I swear you can see the fear in his eyes! That’s how I look when working with APIs — slightly terrified, but internalize the fear. Photo by Proxyclick Visitor Manager System on Pexels

An API Introduction

An API is an Application Programming Interface. If there’s one thing you learn from this article, please don’t let it be that!

My definition would be: an API is a collection of URLs (or endpoints, as they’re called) that provide…

Alec Jones

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