5. API vs Web Services ||Difference between API and Web Services ||Application Programming Interface

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1. Differences between API and Web Services
2. Similarities between API and Web Services
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Differences between API and Web Services:
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API (Application Programming Interface):
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- All APIs are NOT Web Services
- API can be hosted within the application or web server
- API may use any style of communication
- An API acts as an interface between 2 different applications so that they can
communicate each other.

Web Services:
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- All Web Services are APIs
- It can only be hosted on web server
- A Web Service uses limited communications like SOAP, #REST and XML-RPC
- Web Service facilitates interaction between 2 machines over network

Similarities between API and Web Service:
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- Both are accessed through HTTP/HTTPS to enable communication between service
providers and consumers.
- Both call a function, process data and receive a response.

[kumarshivakar]

Can you explain why All API, s are not web services and all webservices are API, s with example

[understandingyouraura]

Hi i appreciate ur efforts to make video it really helped me but just a feedback it was very very slow i mean i saw your description later otherwise i would have just gone through the points from description no reason to watch video no elaborations,
thank you and good luck