The Anatomy of an API Call

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The four main ones you'll see are gets, g e t. A post is here's a new piece of information. Put is sometimes used to update existing information. And then delet is exactly what it sounds like. Like he said, it's going to a specific orel. It's a json j s o n filed. Its structured in a very specific way. Historically this has been something that programmers will do,. But through survaces we use like zappier or integrmater make or that sort of thing. They actually now give you a u i to take the grant work out of structuring those files and thatsort of thing in about you.

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