API and AJAX

Question 1

What is an API?

Answer 1

Application Programming Interface. APIs define a set of rules in which you can interat with a particular application. For web developers, all of those useful URLs are specifically designed to be used by other developers or web pages

Question 2

Explain the format of APIs

Answer 2

APIs are usually web URLs where you can pass information either in the URL or by posting a form to the URL and the server returns JSON or similar data formats.

Question 3

Review: What is a URL?

Answer 3

Remember that URLs are just a human-friendly way to identify the location of the computer that holds the data we’re looking for. The data we found can be a few different things, either an HTML page, an image, a video, JS libraries or JSON.

Question 4

Some URLs only hold an image?

Answer 4

Yes, if you have that link and that contains a picture of a bulbasaur, we can use that URL to make our website better.

Question 5

Request Response

Answer 5

Remember, the code will use get requests to send data