Board Thread:Announcements and Updates/@comment-4712589-20150603090819/@comment-4712589-20150604070245

Knight of glory&#039;s rise wrote: I don't understand what all of those three letter groups mean. Can you explain them and the effects they have to me?

Hey. Sorry for the confusion. API is the application program interface, essentially it's a method for developers to communicate with Bungie servers and gather information, such as names, images and stats for items, missions, characters etc.

URL is the web address. Uploading by URL allows us to feed a URL to the Wikia servers so they can download the image themselves rather than us having to download the file and upload it ourselves.

Bots are semi automated programs designed to do repetitive wiki editing too large and boring for a human. Most of my bots are written from scratch for the purpose of this wiki.