At Pew Research Center, we regularly use APIs to collect information for the studies we produce. Web APIs provide a means of communication between websites and users, structured by rules.

Learn how to use a web API from within an Android app using Retrofit. Get posts from social media, store data on the cloud, and much more!

While you might be familiar with APIs, we'll get into how they work and how they can be used in this tech project, using low-code programming to check the weather with your home lab.

Web APIs facilitate the sharing of functionality and data across platforms, opening up new possibilities for business expansion and innovation. Here’s how to take advantage of them.

Data APIs are rapidly becoming a favored conduit for frontend systems — websites, applications, and mobile apps, but also connected objects — to gain access to data served by their backend ...

An application programming interface, or API, is a "go-between" that enables a software program to interact with other software.

But the benefits of APIs extend to customers too – expediting data transmission, integrating services, reducing touchpoints, delivering innovative products, and, in general, upscaling the entire ...

IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report offers one of the clearest and most comprehensive views yet of how AI adoption is shaping the security landscape.  While breach numbers are relatively low – ...

NHS patient data was left vulnerable by a flaw in an application programming interface used at online healthcare provider Medefer ...

Growing use of APIs give attackers more ways to break authentication controls, exfiltrate data, or perform disruptive acts.