The API I chose to research would be Instagram. I chose this platform because it is a popular among young people and everyone nowadays uses instagram so I wanted to get more insight on their API. what I found when looking up instagram’s API I found that on their website it said that they are trying to improve the privacy of their app’s users because they feel like it will help be more safe and less invading. They proclaimed that they will soon stop allowing Instagram API platform in the upcoming years and will not continue to allow developers to do this. However for the mean time some stuff that they allow with the use of API is to help brands and advertisers understand how to manage their target audience and how to use soical media, they also help people get exposure and and share their content with 3rd party apps, and can lastly help the broadcasters and publishers get digital rights, and share media properly. the link above provides many different informations on how the API allows you to do certain things and what is allowed. The is super useful because when your in a sandbox mode, your API will behave a certain way because of that. The Data is restricted to sandbox users and there are rate limits. As Jack Burnham said API can be used as a form of art and that is what you can see in the instagram API since you can be a creator to create different forms of art.

link: https://www.instagram.com/developer/