Difference between API and Web Services

Web services are a specific subset of APIs.

APIs can have many forms, whether they communicate over the Web, over other Internet protocols, or even inter-process on the same machine, or inside the same machine and process.

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http://www.dotnet-tricks.com/Tutorial/webapi/JI2X050413-Difference-between-WCF-and-Web-API-and-WCF-REST-and-Web-Service.html

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/2b481f/difference-between-Asp-Net-web-api-and-wcf/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19336347/what-is-the-difference-between-a-web-api-and-a-web-service

Web services is a defined architecture and approach to a problem domain as stated by the W3C.

Web services provide a standard means of interoperating between different software applications, running on a variety of platforms and/or framework

Web API is a concept and abstracts the means on how the concept is implemented.

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Upendra Pratap Shahi11y ago
Web services are a specific subset of APIs.

APIs can have many forms, whether they communicate over the Web, over other Internet protocols, or even inter-process on the same machine, or inside the same machine and process.

Read below link

http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/internet/difference-between-api-and-web-service/

http://www.dotnet-tricks.com/Tutorial/webapi/JI2X050413-Difference-between-WCF-and-Web-API-and-WCF-REST-and-Web-Service.html

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/2b481f/difference-between-Asp-Net-web-api-and-wcf/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19336347/what-is-the-difference-between-a-web-api-and-a-web-service

Web services is a defined architecture and approach to a problem domain as stated by the W3C.
Web services provide a standard means of interoperating between different software applications, running on a variety of platforms and/or framework
Web API is a concept and abstracts the means on how the concept is implemented.

if helpful kindly mark the answer as Accepted Answer
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