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What is an API?

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An application programming interface (API) is a specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other. An API may include specifications for routines, data structures, object classes, and variables. An API specification can take many forms, including an International Standard such as POSIX or vendor documentation such as the Microsoft Windows API, or the libraries of a programming language, e.g. Standard Template Library in C++ or Java API.


To help promote programming accessible applications to interact with other services http://api.midsouthmakers.org has been created to centrally house all group related APIs

Current APIs