Application program interface (API) is a set of procedures, protocols, and tools

for building software applications. Just as a graphical user interface makes it

easier for people to use programs, application programming interfaces make it
easier for developers to use certain technologies in building applications. APIs
are one of the most common ways technology companies integrate with each other.
Those that provide and use APIs are considered as being members of a business
ecosystem

A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building
blocks and a developer then puts the blocks together. An API may be for a web-based
system, operating system, database system, computer hardware, or software library
and will detail below the types of APIs.

Every time you make a call to a server in name of an application using a SDKs or a
API, it counts as an API request or API call. Logins, saves, queries are examples
of operations counted as API requests among other types of operations. For better
understanding, please consider you downloaded an application to your smartphone,
you opened it and the application asked your Email and Password. At the moment you
press Register and send your data to the API it is counted as one API request.