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An open API (often referred to as a public API) is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a (possibly proprietary) software application or web service. [1] Open APIs are APIs that are published on the internet and are free to access by consumers. [2]
Leaders API retrieves information on leading athletes in specific statistics categories. Medals API provides medal and event result information from the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. Now API provides a stream of the latest content published on ESPN.com, including headline news, stories, columns, blogs, videos, podcasts, game recaps, and more.
Polymer is used by a number of Google services and websites, including YouTube, YouTube Gaming, the redesigned Google Earth (since 2017), [6] Google I/O 2015 and 2016 websites, Google Play Music, redesign of Google Sites [7] and Allo for web (until its shutdown in 2019).
The AdSense and AdWords APIs, based on the SOAP data exchange standard, allow developers to integrate their own applications with these Google services. The AdSense API allows owners of websites and blogs to manage AdSense sign-up, content and reporting, while the AdWords API gives AdWords customers programmatic access to their AdWords accounts and campaigns.
An example of a popular web API is the Astronomy Picture of the Day API operated by the American space agency NASA. It is a server-side API used to retrieve photographs of space or other images of interest to astronomers, and metadata about the images. According to the API documentation, [15] the API has one endpoint:
There are two types of Java programming language application programming interfaces (APIs): The official core Java API, contained in the Android (Google), SE (OpenJDK and Oracle), MicroEJ . These packages (java.* packages) are the core Java language packages, meaning that programmers using the Java language had to use them in order to make any ...
ProgrammableWeb was an information and news source about the Web as a programmable platform. It is a subsidiary of MuleSoft and has offices in San Francisco, CA.The website publishes a repository of web APIs, mashups, and applications, and has documented over 19,000 open web APIs and thousands of applications. [1]
Video Acceleration API (VA-API) is an open source application programming interface that allows applications such as VLC media player or GStreamer to use hardware video acceleration capabilities, usually provided by the graphics processing unit (GPU).