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It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts ...

Taking a RESTful approach to developing APIs makes integration easier as software developers can concentrate on resources as well as services.

Take advantage of these best practices to ensure that changes to your API don’t break compatibility with current clients.

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.