What is an API? Application Programming Interfaces Explained

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What are APIs? The question is at the core of the most popular software stacks in the world, stacks that rely on API frameworks like Python Flask and Express JS. It's an incredibly important topic to stay on top of for pretty much any developer, and before we start building out our own APIs (videos coming soon!) we need to dive into APIs, API endpoints and API authentication, at least on the base level.

Contents:
0:00 Intro
1:00 What is an API?
4:07 How do APIs work?
5:25 What is an API endpoint?
6:20 Passing parameters to endpoints
9:41 Recap
10:13 Recap: What are tokens?
11:35 Recap: What are endpoints?
12:35 GET vs. POST Requests
13:55 Outro and Coming Videos

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