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A guide on how-to create a Web (i.e., HTTP or HTTPS) based API.

Web API Guide

by Charles Iliya Krempeaux

This is a guide on how-to create a Web-based API (i.e., HTTP-based or HTTPS-based API).

There are different ways one could create a Web-basedbased API — but what I describe in this guide is, in general, how I recommend it is done.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. API Versioning
3. Nouns
4. Verbs
5. Response Codes
6. Sessions