Intro to APIs: Case study to match taxonomic names in Python

API stands for “Application Programming Interface”

APIs can be implemented in a variety of ways not just over “the web.”

APIs use requests and responses to send and receive data.

APIs can be designed differently but there are special types like REST that conform to certain conditions.

There are lots of ways to use an api, it can be very versatile. We covered a few but there are more!

Making requests on command line, web browser, any programming language, postman,…

Software development kits (SDK) provide added support for different programming languages.