When calling api/components/show?key, what exactly is the component name?

Using SQ 6.7.2.

I am trying to get some component data, also firstly I am trying to obtain the componentId. It seems that it is always preceded by “view”, as in:

https://ourcompany/portfolio?id=view-pj-ps-be-xyzbank

The call does to get the id does work when I use the name “view-pj-ps-be-xyzbank” but it seems odd, why the “view” is the part of the name?