From the course: Building RESTful APIs in Laravel
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APIs in the real world
From the course: Building RESTful APIs in Laravel
APIs in the real world
- [Instructor] APIs are everywhere. Whether you realize it or not, our daily lives are informed by APIs. In fact, it might be hard to find a major service that does not provide an API. Want to check the weather for any location on earth? The data will be received from a third party weather API. My Android phone is using the Weather Channel API. Other phones or services might use the AccuWeather API. APIs can be used for various reasons. To access data so that multiple services can work together, you can look up information about recipes, music, public holidays, fitness, and so on. You can also use an API to hide complexity, and extend the functionality of your service. You may wonder "Why do services provide their API like this? Isn't data money?" One reason may be that the more people use the API, the more well known and popular the service becomes. It's good advertising for the company to have a good quality, secure API.…
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