Rachel Tobin CIT 281 - Web APIs using JSON data
281 Project 2 Learning Outcomes
- A web API or Application Programming Interface is an API accessed using the HTTP protocol.
- Web APIs often deliver data formatted as JSON.
- A web API can be accessed programmatically using JavaScript.
- The API documentation must first be consulted in order to understand how the API works and what it returns.
- Some web APIs are public, and others require an access key. Flickr offers several public APIs.