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Get started creating a Data Catalog app (Azure Data Catalog REST API)

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The Data Catalog REST API is a REST-based API that provides programmatic access to Data Catalog resources to register, annotate, and search data assets programmatically. Using the API, you can create an app in any platform that supports calling REST operations.

Here's how to get started creating a Data Catalog app:

To register, annotate, and search data assets using REST API
Step1 – Learn about the Data Catalog REST API
Step2 - Create an Azure Active Directory tenant. If you already have an Azure AD tenant and organizational user, you can skip this step. Important To create a Data Catalog app, you need an Azure Active Directory tenant.
Step3 – Register your client app. You register your app in Azure Active Directory so that users can authenticate to the Data Catalog service.
Step4 – Learn how to authenticate your app