What does Web API do?

What does Web API do?

Web API is a Web application programming interface. Containing a wide range of functions, Web applications can implement storage services, messaging services, computing services and other capabilities through API interfaces. Using these capabilities, powerful web applications can be developed.

For example, information services can provide massive amounts of customized information.

Including geographic data like Google Maps API, product data like Amazon E-Commerce, Amazon historical Pricing Services and the newly released Yahoo! answer's API etc.

What these services have in common is that they all provide simple APIs to access massive amounts of data, and may lead to unpredictable cross-applications between isolated information.

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