APIs, JSON and curl — explained for non-coders

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I did it. Can you make cURL commands? C-U-R-L. What is cURL command? Guys, there's something called API. API in the simplest form, how you can understand is the way you browse internet is through websites. Websites gives you HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Now when you're doing that for mobile, when you're doing that for an A code, right? You don't want too much information, right? It's too much. Imagine millions of requests multiplied by 2 MB. Too much. The speed will be slower and everything. That's why the information transfer happened in something called JSON. And here's what JSON looks like. If you go to JSON, here's what JSON looks like. And it's basically start and end. There's an key value pair. So that's how the information exchange happens. You provide a JSON which will have a key and value. So name, since car, position, founder, this, that, right? That's what is happening. It starts with this. It's end with this. It has multiple data types. So it could be a text. It could be null. Null means nothing. Null means nothing. It also have a symbolic representation of null if no value. There can be boolean, which is true. It could be a number or it could be an object. Object is like this. In itself, another JSON. Clear? This is how we communicate. So when you know that, I am asking Claude, because to call an API through the terminal,…