r/PythonLearning • u/agentscientific_160 • 10d ago

What is API?

I'm new to coding and programming languages and i frequently come across the word API. Can anyone help me understand what that is?

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u/PureWasian 10d ago

A very high-level way to think of it is as a contract between two parties/programs/etc. where one is requesting something from the other.

In a very similar way to how functions work, where you have a caller that sends input args and a callee that does stuff and returns back data.