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How does a company tap into another companies Application Programming Interface(API).?

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2006-08-17 05:12:40, Category: Programming & Design
How does a company get permisions and abilities to be able to query another companies Application Programming Interface(API). For instance how does a company get permision to query a banks data base to pull data that their customer has authourized your company to receive?

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  1. hayral

    On 2006-08-17 05:17:54


    If a company gives you access to their APIs, they most likely give you a SDK (Software Development Kit) containing the libraries needed to access the APIs (not necessary if APIs are web based), documentation and samples. Take a look at WIN32 API and Google API. Loren Soth

  2. thole

    On 2006-08-17 05:22:18


    Unfortunately, your question is a little bit too abstract. A company get a permission to get data from banks, because they have an agreement to do this. The Bank then will 'publish' their API specification the the other company, as well as the security protocol for the access (something like username and password).