Need some help

[Mac]

I'm not sure what section to put this...

What is a Restful API?

I've searched for ages and not found a proper answer so does anyone know what it is? And can you try an explain it 'dumbed down'

Thanks :D

[VolkovBrad67]

I'm surprised you didn't find the answer you are looking for, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671118/what-exactly-is-restful-programming is a good one imo.

But why are you asking this ? Do you have a more specific question related to using a specific API ?

[Mac]

I'm surprised you didn't find the answer you are looking for' date=' [url']http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671118/what-exactly-is-restful-programming is a good one imo. But why are you asking this ? Do you have a more specific question related to using a specific API ?

Well I'm making an app and they've said they want to go down the route of a Restful API, makes more sense now.

[VolkovBrad67]

Many big companies provide public or semi-private (via a key) REST APIs to give users the ability to poll some data. For example, you can query the different races in WoW by using this URL : http://us.battle.net/api/wow/data/character/races

The result will be a JSON string that can be used in your apps.