An API creator blocks subscription to an API as a way of disabling access to it and managing its usage and monetization. A blocking can be temporary or permanent. There is an unblocking facility to You get an unblock option to allow API invocations backagain.
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In this tutorial, you block subscription to an API in the API Publisher and observe how the subscribers can interact with it in the API Store. You also observe how the subscriber experience changes when you unblock the API again. |
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You block APIs by subscriptions. That is, a given user is blocked access to a given API subscribed to using a given application. If a user is subscribed to two APIs using the same application and you block access to only one of the APIs, s/he can still continue to invoke the other APIs that s/he subscribed to using the same application. Also, s/he can continue to access the same API subscribed to using different applications.
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Let's block subscriptions to selected APIsget started. See the video tutorial here or a step-by-step walk-through of the video tutorial below.
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