</roles>
      <timezone>+10</timezone>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <id>evenisse</id>
      <name>Emmanuel Venisse</name>
      <email>******@****.***</email>
      <organization>ASF</organization>
      <roles>
        <role>PMC Member</role>
      </roles>
      <timezone>+1</timezone>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <id>jdcasey</id>
      <name>John Casey</name>

The process that happens when your API app calls the *external API* is named a "callback". Because the software that the external developer wrote sends a request to your API and then your API *calls back*, sending a request to an *external API* (that was probably created by the same developer).

# WebSockets

You can use <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_API" class="external-link" target="_blank">WebSockets</a> with **FastAPI**.

## Install `WebSockets`

First you need to install `WebSockets`:

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```console
$ pip install websockets

---> 100%
```

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## WebSockets client

### In production

In the Python developer surveys, it's clear <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/research/python-developers-survey-2017/#tools-and-features" class="external-link" target="_blank">that one of the most used features is "autocompletion"</a>.

    pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.
    We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers
    and users.
  </description>
  <licenses>
    <license>
      <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>

This includes work such as compiling, testing and documenting software, plus sharing that software via publishing and dependency management.
This platform is agnostic to what kind of software is being developed.
It might be Java or Kotlin libraries running on the JVM, Gradle plugins, Android or iOS applications, C++ libraries, and so on.

This platform does not provide special support for a particular language or ecosystem.

    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
    "Environment :: Web Environment",
    "Framework :: AsyncIO",
    "Framework :: FastAPI",
    "Framework :: Pydantic",
    "Framework :: Pydantic :: 1",
    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",