--- title: 16 API Terms You Should Know | daily.dev description: Learn 16 essential API terms explained in plain English with simple language and real-world analogies. Understand the basics of APIs including resources,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/met6pnv7l twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 16 API Terms You Should Know | daily.dev og:description: Learn 16 essential API terms explained in plain English with simple language and real-world analogies. Understand the basics of APIs including resources,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/met6pnv7l og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MEt6pNV7L.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 16 API Terms You Should Know **[Amigoscode](https://daily.dev/sources/amigoscode)** · [@amigoscode](https://daily.dev/amigoscode) · 577 upvotes · 24 comments ## Summary Learn 16 essential API terms explained in plain English with simple language and real-world analogies. Understand the basics of APIs including resources, requests, responses, response codes, payloads, pagination, methods, query parameters, authentication, rate limiting, integration, gateways, lifecycle, CRUD operations, caching, and clients. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@thegatoomeow** · 2 upvotes > Lovely article, sweet and straight to the point. **@ninaraffaela** · 2 upvotes > Thank you for Sharing **@spectrabyte84** · 1 upvotes > Awesome post! Thanks for the great share. **@essijunior** · 1 upvotes > Revising these terms through your article made me feel good. > > As all revision, I learned more, for example the notion of **limiting requests**. > > I've been seeing it in popular API servers like ***YouTube API***, but didn't know it was a functionality you can specify directly in the API. **@abhisekpanda2004** · 0 upvotes > Lovely article, sweet ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#spring-boot](https://daily.dev/tags/spring-boot) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/met6pnv7l) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/met6pnv7l","headline":"16 API Terms You Should Know","text":"Shared: 16 API Terms You Should Know","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/met6pnv7l","datePublished":"2025-04-24T11:35:45.074Z","dateModified":"2025-04-24T11:36:22.095Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Nelson","url":"https://daily.dev/amigoscode","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--3aCoyed_--/f_auto/v1706091311/avatars/avatar_R6AnNdJr43ECRKuK023Zg","description":"Software Engineer and Educator","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":1790}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--OHB84bZF--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2010","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":577},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":24}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/I3kq5Dn8Z"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Lovely article, sweet and straight to the point.","datePublished":"2025-05-11T00:10:17.751Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/MEt6pNV7L#c-eP87790Ie","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"The Gatoo Meow","url":"https://daily.dev/thegatoomeow","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/AGNmyxa8bkG8FWlLnHE5p6Vp7TubCfYOJFfZBVefVo5M=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Thank you for Sharing","datePublished":"2025-05-07T09:09:25.397Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/MEt6pNV7L#c-g01AaNMQS","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Nina Raffaela","url":"https://daily.dev/ninaraffaela","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocLs-tHZ19PjjyrNiMZ4qrJQRka8AeVrfzttTvDzvzqGYnNa8UlM=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Awesome post! 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