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Instructor: The next part of the URL

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after the domain name is the API word.

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So, if the domain name does not include API,

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like in our case with Beeceptor,

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then the API word comes now like this.

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So, take a look at this domain name

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and you can see that the domain name itself

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does not contain the word API.

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And it comes right after that, after the forward slash.

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So, the role of the API word is to emphasize

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that this URL is for the API and not for the website,

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because there are many websites

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that have a visual representation,

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like almost every other website in the world,

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and also an API representation.

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And the API in the URL notifies the developer

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that this is where the API representation is found.

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Now, the API can also be part of the domain name itself,

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and it doesn't have to be after the domain name.

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A good example for this is with Google APIs.

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So, if you take a look at this URL,

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you see that the word API is part of the domain name,

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part of Google APIs.

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So, this is definitely also a good choice

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and you can use it.

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So, let's continue to build our sample URL using Beeceptor.

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So, we will click the mocking rules once again

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and let's create a new rule,

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and let's go to these textbooks

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which contains the URL of the API.

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So, according to what we just said,

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the first part of the URL here should be the word API.

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Great.

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Don't click Save Rule because we will continue

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walking on this URL during this section.

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So, great, now we have the API word

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and let's continue to the next part of the URL.