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<app-page-title title="Web Services and API Solutions"></app-page-title>
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<h1>Web Services and APIs</h1>
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A web service is a way of using the Internet to provide or accept information that makes sense to computers; this
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allows other sites or applications to consume information from, or provide information to, your service. This
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enables communication between applications, without having to establish any communication channels other than the
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ones that web browsers already use. It isn't the best fit for every application, but when it is useful, it is
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<em>very</em> useful.
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An <abbr title="Application Programming Interface">API</abbr> can be a synonym for a web service, but it can also
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be a generally accessible way of providing data. For example, Twitter has a public API, which other applications
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can use to display tweets on their site.
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<ul>
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<p>
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<a routerLink="/solutions/photography-by-michelle" title="Photography by Michelle | Bit Badger Solutions">Photography
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by Michelle</a> had a private web API that a desktop application utilized to create the online proof sets right
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from the computer where the images resided.
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We
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<a href="https://blog.bitbadger.solutions/2010/4040-web-service.html" title="40/40 Web Service | The Bit Badger Blog">wrote
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a service</a> for the 2010
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<a href="http://erlc.com/4040/" title="40/40 Prayer Vigil | Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention">40/40
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Prayer Vigil</a>, which was utilized by several sites to display the current day's (or hour's) prayer focus, and
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<a href="https://blog.bitbadger.solutions/2012/4040-web-service-for-2012.html" title="40/40 Web Service for 2012 | The Bit Badger Blog">wrote
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one for 2012</a> as well. <em>(As the ERLC does not host these any more, this service is no longer active.)</em>
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<a href="https://prayerjournal.me">myPrayerJournal</a>
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<small> (<a routerLink="/solutions/my-prayer-journal" title="myPrayerJournal | Bit Badger Solutions">about</a>)</small>
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is a <abbr title="Single Page Application">SPA</abbr> which only downloads the structure of the site the first
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time you go there, then utilizes a stateless API to access data from the browser.
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</ul>
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<p><br><a routerLink="/" title="Home">« Home</a></p>
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