A Web API generally refers to a type of API which uses the HTTP communication that is used on the Internet and website networks.
The types of Web APIs include SOAP and REST, and the data formats which they provide are expressed as XML and JSON, etc.
These Web APIs can be called using various programming languages (Excel VBA, Python, JavaScript, PHP, C#, etc.) to automatically link data and information to databases, websites, and Excel, etc.
The Murata Product Information API is a REST API which adopts the JSON data format.
The "Product Information Excel Add-in" is a mechanism which is recommended for beginners and can be used by anyone to call the API for each Murata part number from an Excel function by installing it as an Excel add-in to automatically update the Excel information. In addition, we have prepared two types of "Product Information API" services for website administrators, database administrators, and other advanced users.