Open API

An open API (often referred to as a public API) is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a (possibly proprietary) software application or web service. Open APIs are APIs that are published on the internet and are free to access by consumers.

This article is about a type of application programming interface. For the web service specification, see OpenAPI Specification.
For other uses, see OpenAPI.
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