What Is REST API and How Can You Grab Data for Your App or Website?

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By Kadeisha Kean

Updated Oct 31, 2023

If you're looking for an explanation of what a REST API is, and how you can use it, you're in the right place.

APIs facilitate communication between software applications by taking requests and returning relevant responses, making it easier to access and manipulate data.
REST APIs use URIs to access and manipulate resources, with different request verbs like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE for fetching, adding, updating, and deleting data respectively.
By using libraries like got in JavaScript or requests in Python, you can build applications that grab data from various REST APIs, simply by providing the API key and query in the URL.