#🔒 APIs

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hardy radish
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I was just curious about something. Let's say there is some API, can you use any programming language to interact with that API or must the company providing that API provide the library for that specific language? I mean, isn't the whole reason for the existence of things like json and protocol buffers so that you can exchange data in a language agnostic way?

Furthermore, I read about something called websockets . So if an API delivers information over websockets does that mean any programming language that has an implementation for websockets is able to interact with that API?

feral plumeBOT
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dusky grail
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well, API is a way too general term

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e.g. a photo editing software provide a library to interact with the application can also be an API, they can only provide a library in a specific language

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and if you can use other language would be depend on how their underlying behaviour / if other people create a bridge

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and yes, technically if the info is running through websocket, if you know the structure on how data are sent and received, it can be implement in any programming language
-# Disclaimer: They must at least support websocket and to encode/decode to the input/output

dusky grail
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because they are all running through the network, and if you know the schema, you can just do it yourself in other language

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@hardy radish any more question?

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