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Please read the following content:

- [What is an API](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/what-is-an-api-in-english-please-b880a3214a82)
- [What is a RESTful API](https://searchmicroservices.techtarget.com/definition/RESTful-API)

You'll also need to know a bit about JSON

- [Intro to JSON](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-json)
- [Using JSON in JavaScript](https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json_intro.asp)
- [Using JSON in Python](https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_json.asp)

The following tools are useful for manually playing with api:

- [curl](https://quickleft.com/blog/command-line-tutorials-curl/)
- [Postman](https://www.getpostman.com/postman)