Calling APIs

You can call functions called by other programs hosted on web servers. Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services contain a number of APIs you can call from your code to add intelligence to your apps and websites.

In the code example you call the Analyze Image function of the Computer Vision

Requirements for calling an API:

• API Key to give you permission to call the API
• Address or Endpoint of the service
• function name of method to call as listed in the API documentation
• function parameters as listed in the API documentation
• HTTP Headers as listed in the API documentation