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An API is a set of commands, functions, protocols, and objects that programmers can use to create software or interact with an external system. | An API is a set of commands, functions, protocols, and objects that programmers can use to create software or interact with an external system. | ||
It is a machine-readable interface for machine to machine communication. | |||
It provides developers with standard commands for performing common operations so they do not have to write the code from scratch. | It provides developers with standard commands for performing common operations so they do not have to write the code from scratch. | ||
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Information technology.
(API).
An API is a set of commands, functions, protocols, and objects that programmers can use to create software or interact with an external system.
It is a machine-readable interface for machine to machine communication.
It provides developers with standard commands for performing common operations so they do not have to write the code from scratch.
