What is the purpose of API keys when it comes to third party apis
Hello guys, sorry to disturb you all; I started to learn the concept of APIs etc and I'm pretty conformtable with that term now especially the request-respond cycle.
My question is, I saw that we have "API keys" what does that mean, when do we need them please. The idea of apis remain the same in the sense that it's just a request-respond cycle but what do we mean by "consume that api key" , then based on apis, we have documentations for specific one etc, I'm a bit confused here, how does it work, do we fetch the api from the back-end? Would really appreciate if someone can elaborate giving simple example please
My question is, I saw that we have "API keys" what does that mean, when do we need them please. The idea of apis remain the same in the sense that it's just a request-respond cycle but what do we mean by "consume that api key" , then based on apis, we have documentations for specific one etc, I'm a bit confused here, how does it work, do we fetch the api from the back-end? Would really appreciate if someone can elaborate giving simple example please
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