An Application Programming Interface or API is a way for computers and servers to talk to each other on the web. Most of the APIs in the world is Restful, which means they follow a set of rules or constraints known as Representational State Transfer. They are typically a way to access a database. The API backend queries the database and formats the response. A Restful API organizes data entities or resources into a bunch of unique URIs or Uniform Resource Identifiers that differentiate between different types of data resources.

An Application Programming Interface or API is a way for computers and servers to talk to each other on the web. Most of the APIs in the world is Restful, which means they follow a set of rules or constraints known as Representational State Transfer. They are typically a way to access a database. The API backend queries the database and formats the response. A Restful API organizes data entities or resources into a bunch of unique URIs or Uniform Resource Identifiers that differentiate between different types of data resources.