Contentful delivery api

1. How do I fetch data from Contentful?
2. Is Contentful an API?
3. What is content management API?
4. How do you reference an API?

How do I fetch data from Contentful?

To fetch the data stored in Contentful, you can use RESTful APIs (Content Delivery API, Content Management API and Content Preview API) or the GraphQL API. This tutorial uses the GraphQL API. The main advantage of GraphQL is that developers can request and define the data included in the response.

Is Contentful an API?

The Content Delivery API (CDA), available at cdn.contentful.com, is a read-only API for delivering content from Contentful to apps, websites and other media. Content is delivered as JSON data, and images, videos and other media as files. The API is available via a globally distributed content delivery network (CDN).

What is content management API?

The Content Management API (CMA) is used to manage the content of your Contentstack account. This includes creating, updating, deleting, and fetching content of your account. To use the Content Management API, you will need to authenticate yourself with a Management Token or an Authtoken.

How do you reference an API?

Personally, I would write a sentence saying that I did it, a sentence describing what an API is, and a link to the version-specific API documentation website (i.e., https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/ for the API Version 3 instead of https://developers.google.com/youtube/ the general Youtube API help website).