Where can I learn how to work with website APIs?

Question

API

Hello. As I understand it, the principle of working with the API of different sites is the same. Where (maybe some literature or a service on the Internet) can you learn to understand and work with this API? Does it depend on the programming language?

Answer 1

Come on :) the principle for each API may be the same, although I disagree a little :)
But there is no one universal key for all APIs :)
If you need to work with the telegram api, then you need to go and study the documentation at the office. site :)
That's all :)
If with google api, then by analogy go and look for documentation on google api :)
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I advise you, for example, to go and try to work with the telegram api, because there are tons of examples for it for almost any language (there is definitely a python3 one) :)
And you will roughly understand how it works :)
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Of course, I don’t say for sure, but I can say that working with the API of any site is tied to post and get requests :)
Learn to work in at least 1 programming language with an Internet-related library :)
Learn to work with the API :)
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Personally, I work on python and I usually have enough to work with any API of one library to work with Internet :)
For example, requests :)
And from it you only need 2 methods: post and get :)
That's it :)
And be sure to have good knowledge of the English language :)
Because all the documentation is on it :)

Answer 2

Rather, you need to learn how to work with ARRAYS of data, process them as you need.
Api gives you some data, a response code. Therefore, you need to understand what code means what and be able to process the received data in the language that you use.
UPD: if you also need to learn how to make requests to the API, then read the resp. articles, for this you do not need to flip through three dozen books.

Answer 3

check out Postman first