APIs

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a way for two computer programs to communicate with one another. With Web APIs, the data is often transferred in JSON format.

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Star Wars Example

The following example uses SWAPI to populate a table with Star Wars Opening Crawl text.

See the Pen SWAPI API Example by Rich Hauck (@richhauck) on CodePen.

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Library of Congress (LOC) Example

This example generates pulls a single instance from the Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov).

For context:

• LOC Documentation on JSON Requests
• Here's the search request: https://www.loc.gov/search/?q=camden%20yards
• adding &fo=json to the URL will return JSON: https://www.loc.gov/search/?q=camden%20yards&fo=json
• Here's the result page: https://www.loc.gov/item/2010630835/

See the Pen Camden Yards via LOC API by Rich Hauck (@richhauck) on CodePen.

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