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What is API

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An API is an interface between software programs that facilitates interaction the way a user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers. An application program interface that provide a developer with programmatic access to a proprietary software application. A software intermediary that makes it possible for application programs to interact with each other and share data. How does API works? API working is simple it take request, the process it and send back to the response. Lets take an example to understand it better. Lets say you are in italy and you hungry, you go to bakery shop and want to have cannoli but you don’t know how to speak italian. Below image will show you how you request is being processed and end user get the response. API Protocols Basically there are thee type of protocols, which are as follow. 1.  REST : Representation State Transfer is a simple way of sending and receiving data between client and serve