API for Beginners – Application Programming
Interfaces
Very important to a language
- [Link]() is an API
- Media player for IOS or android is an API
Web API is very important
-You can use an API without completely understanding it, but you need to know how to use them to
your advantage according to how they work
Remote API
-Robot, Drone, Traffic signs.
-Shazaam – Searches all the songs in its database and finds your recording. Also very fast!
- Google translator with camera- real time processing!
-Computational power!
Browser client -> URI -> Server
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Browser sends HTTP request for you(GET-read only) and then server sends it back
HTTP is traditionally stateless. Once it receives request, it’s all done.
Rest – Representational State Transfer
-APIs must meet constraints that define it
Client(probably your program) -> makes request to server via HTTP-> Server
-It’s stateless so you’ll need to send your credentials every time in the request
-almost everything is a resource or collection
-Usually data comes back as JSON (Javascript Object Notation)
HTTP Verbs
Using Spotify REST API
(Check for API in the footer- it says Developers)
Lots of reference documentation that you’ll get used to once you use lots of APIs
