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tan zhang
69 PointsHow to find a API for my need？
I am looking for specific database to build my website，but I am confused about how to find the API contain the data I want. For example I need data about hotpot restaurants，where can I find it？
3 Answers
Taylor Espejo
3,939 PointsHi qinghao,
Im a little confused; are you looking for two things a. API's and b. data on hotpot restaurants ?
I don't think you could find specific API for DB development around hotpots specifically.
Taylor Espejo
3,939 Pointsmmm im not sure tbh, I've personally never heard of it in that way
I mean technically I suppose API as set collectively are a database of functions and procedures that allow the creation of applications which access the features or data of an operating system, application, or other service.
So to some degree its a database for information but not in a context like restaurants.
You could probably find data sets for restaurants but api is more like this https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/api/database-api/database-api-overview
tan zhang
69 PointsThank you!
tan zhang
69 Pointstan zhang
69 PointsI am looking for database about hotpot restaurants. I thought API is some time a database too？ Because I used to use a pokemon API and it contain lot of data of pokemons. So for example if I want to get data for certain topic，what should I looking？ Thank you!