REST API
Category: Infrastructure“REST A-P-I”
A common, predictable way for programs to ask each other for information or to make a change, using plain web addresses.
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A weather widget on your desktop asks a weather service for today's forecast and gets it back in seconds.
The job-costing app asks the supplier's REST API for current lumber prices before printing an estimate.
A dashboard pulls yesterday's sales from the accounting system through its REST API every morning.
Most business software talks through REST, so knowing the term tells you whether two tools can connect at all.
A REST API is the standard, web-address way that two programs exchange data.
Check whether two tools you use both advertise an API. If yes, they can likely be connected.
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