what is API?
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nufaman
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- May 29, 2009
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the api automate things in instagram and twitter are legal or i can get banned for it?
can you please give me an example to some API thing in instagram (it is hard to understand it)
I found that only bases explain unrelated to seo or social media (twitter, ig..)
becouse of that i asked it here
legion85
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Example:
If I wanted to take a backup of my virtual machine, I'd have to login to DigitalOcean.com. Search for the machine, click on create a snapshot, name it, click on create. Then I'd have to wait for the process to complete and delete any existing snapshots (it costs money to have multiple snapshots just sitting there).
With the help of DigitalOcean API I can automate this. Wrote a short program with Python, that provides a unique API key (generated by DigitalOcean). This key is used to authenticate, access the virtual machine and create a snapshot. If there are more than 1 snapshots existing, delete the oldest one with an API call. I put this script in a "cron job", which basically means that the script gets called any time I want. I run it each sunday at 00:00 hours.
If I wanted to take a backup of my virtual machine, I'd have to login to DigitalOcean.com. Search for the machine, click on create a snapshot, name it, click on create. Then I'd have to wait for the process to complete and delete any existing snapshots (it costs money to have multiple snapshots just sitting there).
With the help of DigitalOcean API I can automate this. Wrote a short program with Python, that provides a unique API key (generated by DigitalOcean). This key is used to authenticate, access the virtual machine and create a snapshot. If there are more than 1 snapshots existing, delete the oldest one with an API call. I put this script in a "cron job", which basically means that the script gets called any time I want. I run it each sunday at 00:00 hours.
Mia Jane
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Application program interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. An API specifies how software components should interact. Additionally, APIs are used when programming graphical user interface (GUI) components.
And also it helps with:
One app ask another app to solve a particular problem.
Allows one app to ask another for interesting information.
Gain access to the features of hardware devices- Google Maps uses the phone's geo-location API to know where you are located.
And also it helps with:
One app ask another app to solve a particular problem.
Allows one app to ask another for interesting information.
Gain access to the features of hardware devices- Google Maps uses the phone's geo-location API to know where you are located.
BuY PBN LinKs
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An application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for production software applications and also programming code will allow data transmission between one software product and another.
Robertoz
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Technically I dont know how to explain it, but in simple words we can say like Just think u r sitting along with uer frenz in a cafe and u want something to eat u cant directly order it with the chef in the kitchen instead u inform what u wish to eat to the waiter in turn he describes uer need to the chef and bring back uer order and serve it to u. This is what an API really does here the waiter acts like an API. It helps in the communication of two different applications.
