Instead, developers typically use an HTTP API and JSON to provide the data for apps on the web. That’s why you’ll often hear a so-called REST architecture described as RESTful —as in ...

Nouns, verbs and well-formed URIs At the very least, a RESTful API respects REST's uniform interface constraint in two ways: Using nouns in RESTful URIs to ensure web service operations work on ...

Google's diagram of the Web Integrity API. Credit: Google Google likes to describe its APIs in a generic sense, but in reality, most of the actors in this play would probably be Google.