REST API - Set it up or not?

[John_C]

I noticed REST API in the ACP and was wondering if I should do anything with it?

It says when I click it:

In order to use the REST API:

1. Download this file.
2. Upload it to the /api folder in your site's directory (/home/content/*************).
3. Rename it to '.htaccess' (with no file name).

[Daniel F]

If you're not going to use it, then you don't need to do anything

[tekguru]

I thought it might be needed to get the PayPal agreements working so installed it. Am I okay to just remove the file?

[Daniel F]

You don't need to remove the files. It won't harm your system because it's disabled by default. And there's no need to enable it and to set up the permissions if you don't need it.

This is only needed if you want that your community communicates with other applications like wordpress or another 3rd party app (e.g. member syncing  with another application, or getting/creating content )

[John_C]

Thanks for the explanation Daniel. 

[tekguru]

Thanks Dan I'll leave it as it is then.