C Glossary

API: API stands for Application Programming Interface. An API is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a set of defined rules that enable data transfers between systems.

REST API: A REST API is an API that conforms to the design principles of the REST, or representational state transfer architectural style.

PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that uses and extends the SQL language combined with many features that safely store and scale the most complicated data workloads. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/intro-whatis.html

Data Scraping: The process of programmatically grabbing information from a webpage or document by analyzing the underlying code of the document.