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Learn 16 essential API terms explained in plain English with simple language and real-world analogies. Understand the basics of APIs including resources, requests, responses, response codes, payloads, pagination, methods, query parameters, authentication, rate limiting, integration, gateways, lifecycle, CRUD operations, caching, and clients.

16 API Terms You Should Know

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Lovely article, sweet and straight to the point.

Awesome post! Thanks for the great share.

Revising these terms through your article made me feel good.
As all revision, I learned more, for example the notion of limiting requests.
I’ve been seeing it in popular API servers like YouTube API, but didn’t know it was a functionality you can specify directly in the API.