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As a part of ProgrammableWeb's ongoing series of on-demand re-broadcasts of presentations that are given at the monthly Washington, DC-Area API meetup (anyone can attend), this article offers a recording and full transcript of the APIs 101 presentation that I gave on Dec 5, 2019.