application programming interface

2017-07-10T00:49:29Z

2021-12-13T23:24:25Z

An API is, in the most generic sense, a published commitment on the part of a person or business entity to expose certain functionality, behavior, or semantics of an information system under their control. In the sense in which we are more accustomed, an API refers to a specific class of software that implements this functionality on the Web.