Mic Wright is a journalist specialising in technology, music and popular culture. He lives in Dublin. He is on Twitter at @brokenbottleboy. (show all) Mic Wright is a journalist specialising in ...

An API is like a magic box. We send data in a specific format. We then get data back in a specific format. This magical box is simply a script kept on a server. It acts as a gatekeeper — we tell the ...