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Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, provide a method for connecting your site to a “third-party” web service. We'll use the GitHub API to explore how RESTful APIs allow us to retrieve and update information residing on an external system.
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Sign upHi, I'm Alena. 0:00 The web make sharing information easy. 0:01 You can find instructions for fixing your car building, a house, and 0:04 even learning to program. 0:08 You can share pictures and events with friends and family all over the world. 0:10 Sharing information is such a huge part of the web 0:14 that many websites let you access their content with more than just web browser. 0:17 Using an API, developers can make information available in other places. 0:22 Information like tweets on Twitter, posts on Facebook, and photos from Flickr. 0:28 In this project, we'll be connecting to the GitHub API. 0:32 Not only are we able to retrieve data, we can also change that data as well and 0:36 all within the confines of our application. 0:41
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