{"id":2523,"date":"2022-05-31T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2022-05-31T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T01:29:07","slug":"i-still-dont-know-what-an-api-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/2022\/05\/31\/i-still-dont-know-what-an-api-is\/","title":{"rendered":"I still don&#8217;t know what an API is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me then you struggle understand pretty basic concepts that most people grasp pretty easily. I forgot what this acronym stood for; it is Applicaiton Programming Interface. An API is a software interface that allows two or more applications to interact with each other. Now that I defined what it was, I am starting to remember.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2524\" src=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/05\/API-300x158.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/05\/API-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/05\/API-1024x541.png 1024w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/05\/API-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/files\/2022\/05\/API.png 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This graphic represents an API, it allows products or services to communicate with other products or services. One example we talked about in class if TripAdvisor. Now, I have never used that app, but I have a general understand of how it may work. My understanding is you go on their app and you are able to see a bunch of different flights from different airliners. They do this so that they can push traffic to their business in the hopes of getting more views. Yelp also works on the same preface, but they are a bit more complicated to understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me then you struggle understand pretty basic concepts that most people grasp pretty easily. I forgot what this acronym stood for; it is Applicaiton Programming Interface. An API is a software interface that allows two or more applications to interact with each other. Now that I defined what it was, I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[663943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-instructor","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec712summer2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}