API Client

Definitions

1. A program, library, or component that sends requests to an API and handles the returned responses. API clients may be hand-written, generated from a specification, or provided as SDKs to simplify integration with a service.

   In plain English: Software that talks to an API on behalf of an application or user.

   Example: "The mobile app used a lightweight API client to authenticate, paginate through results, and retry transient errors from the backend."

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