Let’s take a scenario. Getting almost done with month long stress of work routine, you decide to go for week-long trip to Maldives. Okay, so for it, what is first thing you need to do? Yes, quickly grap up your lappy and open booking website, right? C’mon let’s reach out this process technically.
You browse on google any booking website say, makemytrip.com (just because its quite popular and known to all) to carry on with the bookings. So, web page of booking site opens. How does this happen? Magic? Well not, really. Google engine software communicates and calls booking site, asking it to show up on user’s demand. This sends a request to site for it to open. Who directs this process? Which tool ignites process of sending request to desired web? All these questions can be answered using one single term.
Yes, its Application Programming Interface commonly called API. Summing the above cluster of sentences, API refers to set of code or protocols which triggers and sends request to the website demanded by the user to appear on the screen.
Shruti.A.M 