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An application programming interface (API) is a connection that allows different computer programs to communicate with each other and share services. APIs matter because they let software developers build new programs more easily by connecting to existing services rather than building everything from scratch.
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- Stack Exchange tag
- or.stackexchange.com/tags/api
- Commons category
- Application programming interfaces
- short name
- API
- name
- Application Programming Interface
- P8168
- Parasite