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API Access – What Is API Access and how is it used?

What Is API Access? APIs are the foundations of today’s applications.  They are tools, protocols, and programs that allow two applications or web systems to communicate.  APIs also help programmers construct programs more quickly by offering important code structures that eliminate the need to repeat the same operation repeatedly. Simply stated, API access is the process of…
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Endpoint (API Endpoint)

What is an API Endpoint? An application programming interface (API) is software code allowing two software systems to transmit data, creating a communication channel between the two systems.  An API defines the contract that allows them to communicate in a manner…
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API Security - What is API Security?

What is API security? Application Programming Interface (API) is a mechanism through which software applications can interact with each other.  APIs are considered fundamental in most modern software systems, such as microservices structures.  These APIs can…
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Api Key - What is API Key?

What is Api Key? An application programming interface (API) defines the contract enabling two parties to communicate to transmit data by creating a communication channel.  An API key is a unique code used to identify the legitimacy of an application or a project that calls an API endpoint allowing APIs to control how they are being utilized.  It is attached at the API caller’s end and…
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API Endpoints – What Are API Endpoints?

What Are API Endpoints? An API endpoint is a digital address where an API receives requests concerning a certain resource on its server.  An endpoint in an API is often a unified resource locator (URL) that specifies where a resource on the server can be…
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API Access - What is API Access?

What is API Access and the Basics? If you’re a developer or just a regular fan of tech news and blogs, you’ve probably heard of APIs and how important they are in the software development world.  APIs are tools that allow applications and web systems to…
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Application Programming Interface (API)

What is Application Programming Interface (API)? API is a collection of programming code that allows data to be transferred between software products. API sends a user’s response to a system and then returns the system’s response to the client.  While shopping, when you add your product to your cart, an API notifies the website, and your cart is refreshed. An API…
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Api Glossary

APILayer API Glossary: Glossary of API Terms, Definitions & Programming Acronyms What is the API Glossary? APILayer’s API glossary contains an alphabetical list of API-related special terms, definitions, acronyms, and related phrases to help developers understand…
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How To Get More Results Out Of Your Email Address Validation API

The internet has opened the possibilities of communication like never before. After all, easy communication is a crucial factor in making phenomena like remote working and social media possible. However, it hasn’t always been this way, and communication over the internet has steadily evolved. It all started with one of the most basic forms of electronic communication – email. To…
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