What are APIs

Answer 1

they're modules/info companies give out. so if sololearn gave us an api, we could use that to track user stats in our code

Answer 2

Application Programming Interface (API)s are the collection of methods, and values that a developer has made available to other programmers and other programming languages.

Answer 3

api: application programming interface
its a bunch of functions or modules, you can use it to develop app or web app.

Answer 4

I made a research on API's for a long time.

API Application Programming Interface are simple methods functions,
you call think of it as a function like
add(2,3)
it will give 5. how it is done is not your headache someone else has done coding for you.
You have just call it pass some values and get the result.