APIs

- [Narrator] When You draw a picture or write a letter, … chances are that you can draw well with one of your hands, … your dominant hand and not so much with the other. … I recently heard someone describe this as … having a well developed API for your dominant hand … but only a clunky one for the non-dominant hand. … An API or Application Programming Interface … isn't a source of data … but rather it's a way of sharing data, … it can take data from one application to another … or from a server to your computer. … It's the thing that routes the data, translates it, … and gets it ready for use. … I want to show you a simple example of how this works. … So I've gone to this website that has what's called … the JSON Placeholder. … JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, … it's a data format and if we scroll down here, … you'll see this little, tiny piece of code … and what it says is go to this web address … and get the data there … and then show it, include it and you can just click on this …