What is an API and how it works

What is an API? Find out the basics about what an API is and how it functions. In this video, we'll cover what an API is in web development, we'll provide some API examples, explain how an API differs from a web page, cover what an API contract is, and observe how the popularity of API use has increased today.

0:00 Introduction
0:10 What is an API?
0:25 API in Web Development
1:50 Difference between an API and a website
2:22 API Contract
2:59 API Popularity
3:21 Google Maps API

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