TrueLayer, an open-banking platform, has announced the launch of a new Verification API that leverages machine learning in order to provide developers with onboarding services that are fast and accurate. The company claims results in seconds that are 20% more accurate than data … | Continue reading
Facebook announced that it will open-source its AugLy python library, a resource that provides for enhanced AI processing. AugLy helps AI researchers better process content the kind of augmentations that are common across the internet. Aiding in the analysis of common and impactf … | Continue reading
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Images, Scheduling and Games. Included is an API for simplifying the creation of applications with linked data, and an API that removes the background of images. Here's a rundown of the latest add … | Continue reading
The W3C, an international standards organization that manages internet protocols, has announced that the Web Audio API is now an official standard. This designation signifies that W3C has vetted the technology in an industry-inclusive manner that is intended to accelerate adopti … | Continue reading
Fabrick, an open banking ecosystem, has launched new that are built upon Mastercard finance APIs and are intended to reduce time-to-market for new financial products. The new products, InControl for Business and Identity Check Mobile (IDCM), are provided through Fabrick’s Open F … | Continue reading
IQVIA, a health information technology and clinical research solution provider, is currently running its COVID-19 Healthcare App Challenge, a hackathon-style competition for developers that wish to leverage the recently released IQVIA HealthCare Locator SDK. The event runs throug … | Continue reading
Akamai, a content delivery network (CDN) services provider, has outlined the latest release of its EdgeWorkers platform. The edge computing platform gains improvements that are aimed at simplifying code deployment, reducing data latency, and optimizing API traffic. | Continue reading
When Apple announced in mid-2020 that it would acquire the popular weather app Dark Sky, developers knew that it was only a matter of time before they would need to find a new source for weather data. Soon after, Apple announced that the API would be taken down at the end of 2021 … | Continue reading
We are all made of stars. So it's no wonder astrology is booming these days. Developers wanting to get in on this profitable trend need to discovery the proper Astrology APIs. ProgrammableWeb has got that covered. Here are the seven most popular Astrology APIs from our directory. | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Graphics, Copyright, and Sustainability. Highlights include an API for gun policy data around the world, and an API that helps check for source code plagiarism. Here's a rundown of the latest addit … | Continue reading
Facebook has announced the release of the Graph API v11.0 and Marketing API v11.0 as well as moving the Platform SDK to v11.0. These updates include breaking changes that will require developers to update their applications to ensure compatibility. The Instagram Basic Display API … | Continue reading
Google has announced V8 of its ads API and is notifying devs that in order to take advantage of some of the release's new features, updating code is necessary. This update includes new cross-account bidding strategies, improvement to sales tracking, and new label management opti … | Continue reading
Prior to its purchase by Apple, Shazam had made quite the name for itself in the music recognition business. Hear a song but just don’t know the name? Shazam had your back. Once the company was gobbled up by Apple, this functionality found its way into iOS and has been ubiquitou … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Sustainability, Writing, and Sports. Highlights include an API from Mastercard for offsetting carbon emissions for transactions and and API for Quran translation. Here's a rundown of the latest ad … | Continue reading
In 2018, as part of the iOS 12 release, Apple added screen time tracking capabilities for the iPhone. Since that time developers have been pushing Apple to make the data exposed by this functionality available via API. The tech giant has finally acquiesced. | Continue reading
Like most everything these days, election processes are going through a digital transformation. Technology for determining voter eligibility, polling, registering voters, campaigning voting,vote counting, election data and more is now available through APIs. Here are ten popular … | Continue reading
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Sustainability, Writing and Travel. Highlights include an API that retrieves data about COVID-19 travel restrictions and an API for tracking down plagiarism. Here's a rundown of the latest additions … | Continue reading
Wyre, an API-first fintech company that specializes in blockchain payment services, has announced an API for its new savings account product that is intended to provide an annual return that is significantly higher than most savings accounts that rely on traditional currencies. | Continue reading
Spark AR, Facebook’s augmented reality platform which was announced in 2017 and powers those silly dog ear filters on Instagram, is getting more powerful with the announcement of the new Multipeer API. This API will bring AR on the platform to video calling on Messenger, Instagr … | Continue reading
Facebook announced the beta release of new Messenger API functionality for Instagram in 2020 with the intention of “improving customer satisfaction and facilitating meaningful conversations on the platform.” Facebook today announced it will be moving this functionality into gene … | Continue reading
At Facebook’s developer event F8 Refresh, WhatsApp announced updates to its WhatsApp Business API aimed at helping businesses to better communicate with customers. Facebook announced the coming launch of the Researcher API aimed at providing viable research opportunities for the … | Continue reading
As the pandemic has driven an office exodus and cemented work-from-home as a common business structure, companies have been forced to find ways to work efficiently. Spurwing, an API-first appointment scheduling business, provides developers with tools for building scheduling int … | Continue reading
Five APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Charity, Sustainability and COVID-19. Highlights include an API that can forecast carbon emissions from electricity use and an API that checks text for plagiarism. Here's a rundown of the latest ad … | Continue reading
Spotify has announced changes to the company’s developer platform that are intended to help streamline the process of building third-party apps that leverage the media company’s resources. These updates include two new development modes and a significant update to the Spotify De … | Continue reading
Zylo, provider of SaaS account management services, has released a new API that is intended to expand the reach of the company’s platform to include a more expansive set of applications and services. Zylo is used by businesses to keep a centralized record of SaaS subscription an … | Continue reading
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Marketing, Health and DevOps. Highlights include an API for converting WebM media files to several other formats and an API for making custom health applications from aggregated health data. Take a … | Continue reading
TextGears provides an API platform for automated text analysis and correction, and has now added a new Grammar Check API to its product offering. By adding this functionality, TextGears now provides developers with a one-stop-shop for text analysis, grammar correction, and synta … | Continue reading
IQVIA, a health information technology and clinical research solution provider, has announced a new HealthCare Locator SDK that provides access to a healthcare information database that includes the details on 21.5 million healthcare providers and 2.5 million healthcare organiza … | Continue reading
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Data Mining, Loans, and COVID-19. Highlights include an API that reads Thai National ID cards and converts them into machine-readable format and an API for locating COVID-19 vaccine information. | Continue reading
Developers looking to add currency features such as currency conversion, multi-currency pricing, current foreign exchange rates, and cryptocurrency data into applications need to find the proper Currency APIs. In this article, we highlight the ten most popular Currency APIs from … | Continue reading
Twitter has announced two new features for its v2 API; endpoints that provide access to Likes and blocks data. This latest update to v2, originally launched last August, will give third-party application developers access to more data and is meant to bring the API closer to parit … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Currency, Security and Open Banking. Highlights include an API that provides data about SpaceX and an API for foreign exchange (Forex) news and analysis. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Xignite has released a new Corporate Actions API that provides developers with access to data on stock splits, dividends, mergers, and spinoffs. The company notes turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as an inflection point causing increased movement in corporate logistics. | Continue reading
Google has been hosting a virtual version of the company’s annual developer conference: Google I/O. The first two days have included updates on WearOS, Google Maps Platform, and Android’s augmented reality platform. This post will provide an overview of these updates and changes … | Continue reading
MuleSoft has updated its Anypoint Platform to include an all-new product that enables developers to leverage multiple APIs with a single GraphQL query. This new solution, Anypoint DataGraph, is designed to be utilized without the need to write any additional code. | Continue reading
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Video, Open Banking and Authorization. Highlights include an API for writing and checking permissions, an API for a cannabis social network, and an API for open banking in India. Here's a look at wh … | Continue reading
eBooks offer interactive features, search-ability, ease of publishing, features for vision impaired persons, instantaneous delivery, portability, language translation features, lower prices, and they are paperless, thus more sustainable than their print counterparts. Here are 8 p … | Continue reading
Five APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Monitoring, Sustainability, and Languages. Featured is an API that can detects negative content and analyzes it, and an API that returns data about languages based on a user's locale. Here's a look … | Continue reading
In 2019, Salt Security launched an API Protection Platform that leverages AI in order to provide API traffic monitoring that detects malicious behavior and prevents attacks before they can happen. Salt is now expanding this platform to include automated OAS analysis and new secu … | Continue reading
Today at Square Unboxed the company has announced a collection of new developer tools that aim to help partners build engaging and interactive payment experiences. These announcements include early access to a new API that enables the creation of platform extensions. | Continue reading
Particle Health has opened limited access to its beta API program. This program queries the company’s national healthcare data network in order to access a patient’s medical records and provide partners with secure access to full patient histories. | Continue reading
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Machine Learning, Games, and Coronavirus. Highlights include an API for a game to learn programming, and an API for data about artworks in the SMK Museum of Denmark. Here's a rundown of the latest … | Continue reading
EasyPost provides developers with shipping APIs that aim to solve logistical problems surrounding e-commerce. The company has now released a new SmartRate API that uses proprietary analysis of historical shipment data across carriers to improve accuracy of transit time estimates … | Continue reading
Expert.ai provides a natural language (NL) API that enables developers to add intelligent language analysis to their applications. The company has now added new functionality to the cloud-based platform that aims to better process emotional subtext in text at scale. | Continue reading
In this article we interview Brian Douglas, Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub, a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. He talks about how his team acts as matchmakers across the community and also how he has re-examined his approach to events since the pan … | Continue reading
Today’s business climate is filled with disruption, whether from a global pandemic or competitors constantly pushing the envelope, and it is forcing companies across all industries to adjust or be forever left behind. Modern customers demand seamless end-user experiences (eg: mob … | Continue reading
Pocketnow is reporting that Apple has developed a new API specifically to be used by the Zoom iPadOS application that will allow app users to use the split screen mode offered by the popular video conferencing platform. Previously the application was unable to offer this feature … | Continue reading
Five APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Education, Auto and Finance. Highlights include an API for retrieving standard automobile data from several automakers and an APIs for O'Reilly Media. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading