Database APIs# Database API
Database Application programming interfaces help in streamlining access to information from other programs or database management systems. The API allows for speedy, efficient, and seamless communication during transactions.
## What is a Database API?
A database API is a programming interface for applications that allows different programs to connect to databases to retrieve particular records or information. The API utilizes the user-specified filter conditions to access and retrieve data as it responds to the search queries. They carry information about where to find data in collections of databases.
## How do Database APIs work?
The APIs serve as intermediaries between a request and the databases. The APIs receive tag wrapped requests initiated by the users for data. e.g movie information through a movie database API. The requests are sent to the server-side by the API. The API uses user-specified parameters and filter conditions to access and read from the database. They then wrap the feedback in tags and return the output to the client.
## Who are the users of the APIs?
The database APIs are meant for developers who seek to find leverage when developing complex functions for the transactions, especially when constructing complex queries.
Database administrators use these APIs as they seek to extract relevant information on particular subjects as they provide a platform for dynamically constructing search queries.
The end-users who interact with applications for information such as videos and films interact with APIs like movie database API to extract information on release dates, ratings, actors, and genre.
## Why are the APIs important?
1. The database APIs allow developers to construct a single query to work across different database types to extract information.
2. This API is also instrumental in constructing complex queries that allow for code portability and reusability of data.
3. They allow for ease of data management as they provide query and response forms that are standardized.
4. The APIs also help achieve a faster and more structured form of sending requests and receiving responses.
## What you can expect from the API?
Developers and other users can experience a much better and easy integration capability with different applications and platforms to access and retrieve information. The developers can also expect faster and efficient responses as the APIs provide accurate and filtered output. They will not have to stress about data management strategies due to effective and standardized data retrieval processes.
## Are there examples of free APIs for Databases?
There are several free APIs for databases, including Summery API, Brodata, and CPUData APIs.
## Best Database APIs
1. [Movie Database](https://rapidapi.com/rapidapi/api/movie-database-imdb-alternative)
2. [YelpAPI](https://rapidapi.com/serg.osipchuk/api/YelpAPI)
3. [Skyscanner Flight Search](https://rapidapi.com/skyscanner/api/skyscanner-flight-search)
4. [GameDatabase](https://rapidapi.com/stefan.skliarov/api/GameDatabase)
5. [LastFm](https://rapidapi.com/dimashirokov/api/LastFm)
6. [Hulu](https://rapidapi.com/Streamzui/api/hulu1)
7. [Tasty](https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/tasty)
8. [Guardian](https://rapidapi.com/mikilior1/api/Guardian)
## Database API SDKs
All Database APIs are supported and made available in [multiple developer programming languages and SDKs](https://docs.rapidapi.com/v2.0/docs/getting-started-with-rapidapi-sdks) including:
1. Node.js
2. PHP
3. Python
4. Ruby
5. Objective-C
6. Java (Android)
7. C# (.NET)
8. cURL
Just select your preference from any API endpoints page.
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The spoonacular Recipe - Food - Nutrition API gives you to access to thousands of recipes, storebought packaged foods, and chain restaurant menu items. Our food ontology and semantic recipe search engine makes it possible to search for recipes using natural language queries, such as "gluten free brownies without sugar" or "low fat vegan cupcakes." You can automatically calculate the nutritional information for any recipe, estimate recipe costs, visualize ingredient lists, find recipes for what's in your fridge, find recipes based on special diets, nutritional requirements, or favorite ingredients, classify recipes into types and cuisines, convert ingredient amounts, or even compute an entire meal plan. With our powerful API, you can create many kinds of food and nutrition apps.
Special diets/dietary requirements currently available include: vegan, vegetarian, pescetarian, gluten free, grain free, dairy free, high protein, low sodium, low carb, Paleo, Primal, ketogenic, and more.
This API provides you with tools to find nutrition and diet data for generic foods, packaged foods and restaurant meals. In addition it employs NLP (Natural Language Processing) which allows for extraction of food entities from unstructured text.
Covered Use Cases:
-Search for a food by keyword, food name or UPC/Barcode
-Sourcing of nutrition facts for a given food, including: macro and micro nutrients, allergen labels, lifestyle and health labels
-Search for a food by given nutrient quantity for 28 nutrients
-Seach for foods within a given brand
-Built in food-logging context it allows for NLP requests for chat bots and natural language calorie counters