4.2 API = Application Programming Interface
- API = Application Programming Interface
- a set of structured http requests that return data in a lightweight format.
- HTTP = Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- how browsers and e-mail clients communicate with servers.
Source: Munzert et al. (2014), Figure 9.8
- how browsers and e-mail clients communicate with servers.
References
Munzert, Simon, Christian Rubba, Peter Meißner, and Dominic Nyhuis. 2014. Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining. John Wiley & Sons.