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Spotlight: Gov.uk opens APIs
The application programming interfaces, or APIs, that form the "bedrock on which Gov.uk is built," are now available to the public, according to a Feb. 7 blog post from the U.K. Government Digital Service. The United Kingdom's consolidated government website, which went live Jan. 31, is built on APIs that pull information from back-end content management tools into the applications that populate the pages on the site.
"As with everything we've made, our APIs are subject to iteration and very much in beta," wrote James Stewart, technical architect at GDS. He added that APIs provide a "reasonable way to get at the content," but that API content and formats could still change, which would impact developers who plan to use the APIs immediately. Blog post




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