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What is the difference between API and Web Service?

Asked by B. Wright, Last updated: Apr 18, 2024

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G. Horace

G. Horace

G. Horace
G. Horace, Content Developer, Chicago

Answered Apr 22, 2020

API and Web serve as a way of communicating. API stands for Application Programming Interface. The only variation is that a web service enables interaction between two machines over a network. An API acts as an interface between the two different functions so that they may exchange words with each other.

An API is a procedure by which the third-party vendors may write programs that effortlessly intermingle with one another. A web service is created to possess an interface which is represented in a processible machine format usually stipulated in Web Service Description Language.

HTTP is the most useable protocol for communication. Web service also uses SOAP, REST, and XML-RPG as a Means of communication. An API accurately describes the techniques for one software program to interact with the other.

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