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Easy to Use

Design the API to be easy to use by providing intuitive and consistent endpoint names, data formats, and response structures. This can help reduce the learning curve for developers and ensure that the API is easy to integrate with other applications and services.

The ways to make a Web API simple can be:

  • only one way to get certain data/perform task
  • descriptive names for actions and resources
  • exposing only the information and actions that users need

Provide comprehensive and easy-to-understand documentation for the API, including the API endpoint URLs, data formats, error messages, and authentication and authorization mechanisms. The documentation should be written in clear and concise language, and should be easily accessible to developers