# API

remote.it is powered by a robust set of APIs that allow you to do anything via an API that you can do with our [web portal](https://app.remote.it), desktop or mobile applications.

Below are pages documenting our graphQL API. It is best to start with the authentication docs since the API requires you to authenticate. GraphQL is a data query language for API's, developed by Facebook in 2012 before being publicly released in 2015. GraphQL provides an alternative to the REST API.

For more information on GraphQL, learn on the official GraphQL website [**here.**](https://graphql.org/)


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```
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```

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Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.