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The Sportal356 CMS platform is based on two RESTful Application Programming Interfaces (API)–a Content API and a Football API–to give you easy access to the system and complete control over your content.
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In simple terms, an API is a software-to-software interface, not a user interface. It allows applications to communicate with each other and developers to effortlessly access and manipulate a system remotely. An API acts as an intermediary, or a messenger, who sits and waits to take your request and deliver it to the server of the system (application, etc.) you want to reach, and then returns the response back to you. |
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An API is a documented method of interacting with someone else's service. Each time you use an app like Facebook, send an instant message, or check the weather on your phone, you’re interacting with the API of those applications.
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