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What’s the Difference Between a webhook and an API?
I'll illustrate this with a concrete example: Credit card payments.
When your site wants to charge a credit card, you call an API at your credit card processor. The credit card processor then ...
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What’s the Difference Between a webhook and an API?
Here's an example of the difference between webhook and API in layman's term:
Say you ordered something online and the delivery would be today but you're at work so you told your maid get the package ...
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