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Application Programming Interface (API) is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other. A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks. A programmer then puts the blocks together. 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,
  • vendor documentation such as the Microsoft Windows API,
  • the libraries of a programming language - e.g. Standard Template Library in C++ or Java API.

An API differs from an ABI (Application Binary Interface) in that the former is source code based while the latter is a binary interface. For instance POSIX is an API, while the Linux Standard Base is an ABI.

Source: Wikipedia (Application Programming Interface)

Questions asking us to recommend or find an API, documentation or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam.

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Is there a Raml 1.0 (not 0.8) HTML generator?

Somebody knows if is there a version of raml2html to Raml 1.0? I found only tools for Raml 0.8, like raml2html or raml2md, but doesn't working for Raml 1.0.
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Get device type (phone/tablet/other) by brand name

I have a long list of devices names and manufacturers that I got from various sources. I am searching for a programmatic way (probably api) to determine which of the devices are phones, which are tablets and which are something else (a computer for…
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Using boost::shared_ptr in a library's public interface

We have a C++ library that we provide to several different clients. Recently we made the switch from using raw pointers in the public interface to using boost::sharedptr instead. This has provided an enormous benefit, as you might guess, in that now…
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Calling External API with Javascript

I need to make a POST request to an external server from my webpage using Javascript. The body and response are both json. I can't figure out how to make this call or what tools to use. How do I make this call? This is what I have so far using…
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How can we get real-time Instagram location notifications for our customers?

I'm working on a system whose end-users are small and medium business owners. The goal of this feature is to get pictures (in real-time) that others post to Instagram that are tagged with their business location. Note that this is different from…
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Yahoo Finance API stock/ticker lookup only allowing exact match

Until yesterday a query such as this http://autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?query=a&callback=YAHOO.Finance.SymbolSuggest.ssCallback yielded a long list of fuzzy/broadmatch results for both ticker and company name. Since today you are a.) required to…
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What are the differences between Paypal's API and BrainTrees v.zero API, and Which would work more efficiently for a Node.JS Marketplace Website?

Please explain the difference between all the different PayPal API's that are offered, and why they have so many different ones. If you were to build a new marketplace website in comparison to Amazon or Etsy, or an SaaS such as Volusion or Shopify,…
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Argument 2 passed to Aws\AwsClient::getCommand() must be of the type array, string given

I followed installation from this page. Which is version 3 of the SDK. Basic usage here. 'latest', 'region' =>…
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Python Telegram Bot - Send Image

I'd like to send a Image (via URL or Path), on request. I use the source code here. The code has already a sample to send an image (via URL or Path), but I don't get it since I'm new to Python. Here's the sample code snippet: elif text == '/image': …
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Identify if sensor works when screen is OFF in android

I want to identify if the Sensor used for Activity Recognition works when device screen is off. Activity Recognition stops as soon as Device screen is turned OFF. I searched for it and found that sensor does not work when screen is OFF to save the…
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Twitter API - upload an image

I try to upload an image via Twitter api , as described there I created a form with name="status" and name="media[]" -
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Create custom action in Yii2 Rest API

I am working with yii2 , and I want to create rest api. I read yii2 rest api quick start documentation, but in there you can use only default actions(index/view/create/delete/list...). It is working fine But I want to create another action for…
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Polymer 1.0: Help using dom-if

Can someone please provide an example of proper implementation of dom-if? No example of proper usage is provided by the official documentation. (Sorry there is no direct link. Must use menu in upper left and select dom-if). Here is what I have so…
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how to use POSTMAN app to upload FILES to Amazon S3

I have a rather simple task. I want to test uploading a file using Postman to my Amazon s3 bucket. Postman keeps erroring out saying "Could not get any response". Screenshot of my Postman configuration is below... any ideas why I can't do a…
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Endpoint for user login/signup in Woocommerce Rest API v2

I have searched completely in Woocommerce REST API documentation for the endpoint of user login/signup but unable to find it. Can anyone provide me the link to the endpoint and its documentation?
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