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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python
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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

by Anish Chapagain
July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
350 pages
8h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction to web APIs

A web-based application programming information, or web-based API, is an interface provided by a website to return information for the request that's received. A web API (or API) is actually a web service that's provided by websites to users or third-party web applications or automated scripts in order to share and exchange information.

Generally, this is a user interface (UI) that's processed via a web browser for retrieving certain information from requests that have been made to a website or web server. Websites with large amount of information of any type can provide a web API to their user, which facilitates information sharing.

API in the field of software applications is known for its set of facilities, such ...
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