Using an API to Send a Text Message to a Grandma

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If i was telling my five year old son about apis, i'd examine why. I don't think he really needs to know. But if he said something like, i would really like a lot of the things that i'm doing on my eye pad to send a message to my grandmother and let her know everything i did for the day. Maybe you use an api to do that, and then you go back to your five year old and say, how are you thinking so abstractly at five years old? This is very specific. Have you hadapi conversations with your five yearold? No, that's why that was so hard to do. O, do you have a five

The internet. It's all around us. Today, we pull back the curtain on how to connect data through APIs. The thing that makes the thing you put into one thing, go into the other thing that you want it to go into. Or something like that.

If you make it through to the end of this one, hit us up for a prize. We may or may not try hitting free public APIs at the end like KanyeRest, BoredAPI & Agify (predict age based on your name).

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API Basics - https://jo.my/apiforbeginners
Bubble - https://jo.my/bubble
Zapier - https://t.jo.my/zapier
Integromat / Make - https://t.jo.my/integromat-make
Airtable - https://t.jo.my/airtable
Notion - https://jo.my/notionapp
Webflow - https://jo.my/webflow
Agify - https://jo.my/agifyapi
KanyeRest - https://jo.my/kaynerest
BoredAPI - https://jo.my/boredapi