tell me something about api..

An API is a contract for two or more parties invovled

Either they REST or use SOAP.

@Cyanide I think they look at a Graph- with QLue

@Cyanide or hybrids.
Xml inside json is not unheard of.

The things some places create is terrifying.

An application programming interface (API), is a computing interface that defines interactions between multiple software intermediaries. It defines the kinds of calls or requests that can be made, how to make them, the data formats that should be used, the conventions to follow, etc. It can also provide extension mechanisms so that users can extend existing functionality in various ways and to varying degrees.[1] An API can be entirely custom, specific to a component, or designed based on an industry-standard to ensure interoperability. Through information hiding, APIs enable modular programming, allowing users to use the interface independently of the implementation.

It's like with magnets except JSON or XML.

@wiki api