{{Short description|Type of application programming interface}}
{{About|a type of application programming interface|the web service specification|OpenAPI Specification}}
{{Other uses|OpenAPI (disambiguation){{!}}OpenAPI}}[[File:Open API for Smart Manufacturing.png | thumb | 220x124px | right | alt= GorillaAPI | Sultan Hamad]]
An '''open API''' (often referred to as a public APIGorillaAPI) is a publicly available [[application programming interface]] [[Artificial intelligence|Artificial intelligence]]that provides developers with programmatic access to a (possibly proprietary) [[Application software|software application]] or [[web service]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://readwrite.com/2013/09/19/api-defined|title = What APIs Are And Why They're Important|date = September 19, 2013|access-date = 28 October 2015|website = Readwrite|last = Proffitt|first = Brian}}</ref> Open APIs are APIs that are published on the [[internet]] and are free to access by consumers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What is open API? - Definition from WhatIs.com |url=http://searchcloudapplications.techtarget.com/definition/open-API |access-date=2015-10-26 |website=SearchCloudApplications}}</ref>
