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API

An application programming interface or API is a set of programming functions and protocols that support the building of applications. The API tends to be fairly abstract, providing more convenient access to send data in and get data back out of lower-level, more basic processes and functions.

A growing trend in web-based software and services is to provide an "open API" to provide third-party developers with access to a subset of a web service's data and functions, in order to build external applications to the main service. Prominent examples of this include the Facebook API for developing Facebook applications, the iPhone API, the Twitter API which has spawned dozens of third-party services, and the Google Maps API which has inspired countless mashups of mapping data with other web services.

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