Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Social, Boating, Security, and Financial. Highlights include the most recent version of the Facebook Graph API and an API for sentiment analysis in text. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
NoSQL databases have grown in importance over the last decade. These databases differ greatly from a traditional SQL database by storing data in flexible stores that can change on the fly. This article reviews seven APIs that allow developers to integrate their apps with NoSQL da … | Continue reading
IPinfo announced the availability of its Privacy Detection API. This API detects methods used to mask a user's true IP address, including VPN detection, proxy detection, tor usage, or a connection via a hosting provider, which could potentially be used to tunnel traffic and mask … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Transportation and Fitness. Highlights include the Gitter API for developers and the GazeCloud API for eye-tracking websites and applications. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Black Knight, a provider of analytic services to the real estate industry, has announced a webhooks component for its API platform that is intended to improve automation capabilities for lenders. This new functionality will provide real-time access to advanced secondary marketin … | Continue reading
Google appears to be preparing for the release of an official Tiles API for Wear OS enabled watches. The API would allow third party app developers to create their own tiles. The internal Tiles API was reverse engineered and several developers had updated their apps to make use o … | Continue reading
Although there is plenty of negative news about how social media is invading our privacy and affecting our society as a whole, it appears popularity hasn't waned. In this article we present the ten most popular Social APIs as determined by website traffic on ProgrammableWeb. | Continue reading
A few years back Google introduced ML Kit, an SDK that lets mobile developers add machine learning to their apps. Recently, Google announced two new APIs (Entity Extraction and Selfie Segmentation) would be added to ML Kit to allow developers to create richer in-app experiences. | Continue reading
APM Terminals, an international container terminal operating company, has launched the truck appointment API, hoping to improve its supply chain efficiency. The API will have data for the API terminal in Los Angeles and plans are for data to become available for additional termin … | Continue reading
Synching up events and appointments onto a calendar can be an arduous task. Luckily, ProgrammableWeb provides a huge list of APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, to help developers who want to create or enhance calendar applications. Here are the 11 most popular ones. | Continue reading
This article covers state-sponsored Covid19 exposure and contact-tracing apps launched in the US during November/December 2020. At a time when support from the federal government was needed, individual states were forced to come up with and pay for their own solutions to a global … | Continue reading
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Video, B2B, Electronic Signature and Social. Highlights include the Twitter V2 API and an API for returning financial data about businesses. Here's a rundown of the latest additions for developers. | Continue reading
APM Terminals, a container terminal operating company, has launched the truck appointment API with the hope of improving its supply chain efficiency. At launch the API will have data for the API terminal in Los Angeles and plans are for data to become available for additional te … | Continue reading
Twitter recently informed its developer community of updates to its API v2, including new resources intended to support conversation reply settings, a new feature that allows users to specify who can reply to their Tweets. These updates are meant to help those tracking public con … | Continue reading
It seems that almost every discipline imaginable is undergoing a digital transformation. That includes the art, science, and culture world of museums, many of which are offering open data access to collections. In this article, we highlight 10 popular APIs from our Museums catego … | Continue reading
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Bitcoin, Images, Search, Email and Food. Highlights include an API that allows users to optimize search algorithms and an API for email testing. Here's a rundown of the latest additions for develope … | Continue reading
As Financial Institutions consider making a foray into the IoT space, they must consider the role that APIs play. APIs can help set the stage for IoT initiatives and banks should take the time to understand the types of APIs available to them and how those APIs are central to any … | Continue reading
Sendbird has announced several updates to its chat offerings that the company hopes will allow developers to better adapt to a communication environment that has been reshaped by COVID-19. These Updated include new partitioning options for Open Channels, IP whitelisting, and mess … | Continue reading
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Attractions, Food, and Random. Highlights include an API that can integrate with Roller amusement park software-as-a-service, and an API that can return Yo Momma jokes. Here's a rundown of the lates … | Continue reading
When it comes to creating applications, savvy developers know how powerful names can be. Using Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, is the best way for developers to add names services to their applications. In this article, we highlight the 10 most popular Names APIs fro … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Restaurants and Jobs. Highlights include an API for managing shopping cart services, and an API to retrieve job listings for remote workers. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Google has announced that it will release the latest versions of the Google Mobile Ads SDK for Android and iOS in early 2021. With the release date drawing near, the company has published several migration guides and is urging developers to prepare their applications for the tra … | Continue reading
In an article for CIO, Pitney Bowes Chief Innovation Officer James Fairweather discussed creating a pattern of development while turning company-wide attention to the adoption of a critical technology, enabling the century-old company to reshape the way it works and empowering cl … | Continue reading
Making energy more efficient is necessary for many reasons, including economizing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions for a cleaner planet. Advancing technologies are here to help, and the best way for developers to integrate with them is via APIs. Here are then 10 most popular … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Subscriptions, Open Data and Fantasy Sports. Featured is an API that offers chess game data and an API that provides access to philosophy research content. Here's a rundown of the latest additions … | Continue reading
TazWorks, a provider of a screening platform for CRAs and background screening professionals, today announced the general release of its next-generation API, TazAPI Advanced. TazWorks' new JSON-based API is fully documented and includes an intuitive development portal. | Continue reading
Google has been steadily improving the infrastructure behind the Google Search Console API to ensure that users are able to fully leverage all of the powerful features available in the Search Console. This week, the company announced that it will be further updating the API. | Continue reading
DataStax, a data management company, has announced that its Stargate open-source API framework has moved into general availability. Stargate was initially announced in the summer of 2020 and is intended to integrate data request coordination code with an API platform for simplif … | Continue reading
RapidAPI announced new enterprise management capabilities for RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a marketplace that enables developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs. RapidAPI Enterprise Hub helps with integrating with existing API gateways and management … | Continue reading
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Auto, Healthcare, and Languages. Highlights include an API that retrieves ancient Greek language data and an API that changes recipes to suit dietary needs. Here's a rundown of the latest addition … | Continue reading
An essential part of any API strategy is to engage with your developer ecosystem. This interview continues a series where ProgrammableWeb talks to providers about their best practices for engaging with developers. We talk with Randall Degges from Okta to learn what drives its eng … | Continue reading
A major problem for rapidly growing API providers is how to scale their APIs to meet the growing needs from their systems and codebases. Companies should think about scaling on two different dimensions: design and system. Both should be taken into account and baked into your API … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including News Services, Games, Location, and SEO. Highlights include an API for Fireblocks DeFi platform and an API for retrieving currency and forex information. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Stripe, a provider of a payment processing platform, is launching an embedded finance API called Stripe Treasury. The new API will allow partners to embed banking services into their platform or online marketplace in order to create bank accounts, store funds, move money, and pa … | Continue reading
Spamhaus Technology Ltd has recently announced the release of its Intelligence API Beta. This is the first time Spamhaus has released its extensive threat intelligence via API, providing enriched data relating to IP addresses exhibiting compromised behavior. | Continue reading
MuleSoft has announced a new solution that is built on top of its existing Anypoint Platform and aims to allow non-developer employees to participate more directly in building what the company sees as the future of enterprise integration. MuleSoft Composer offers a no-code integr … | Continue reading
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Mapping, Text, Mapping, and Games. Highlights include an API that offers data about gaming giveaways and an API for adding polls to applications or websites. Here's a rundown of the latest additio … | Continue reading
Amazon has added new functionality to its Amazon Comprehend platform that aims to more aggressively support financial analysts that require natural language processing for events analysis. The new API helps extract data from news articles, SEC filings, press releases, and bankrup … | Continue reading
Everybody hates spam. But it's not just a nuisance. Spam messages can contain threats for content providers, consumers and other innocent users. Developers wishing to help prevent spam in new or existing applications can find APIs on ProgrammableWeb to help. Here are the ten most … | Continue reading
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Security, Authentication, and Weather. Highlights include an API that enables connectivity to home automation services for baby notifications and an API for finding podcasts. Here's a rundown of the … | Continue reading
Cambridge Global Payments, a provider of integrated cross-border payments and currency risk management solutions, has announced it is launching an enhanced version of the Application Programming Interface platform that will open it up for third-party and software developers aroun … | Continue reading
Although buying tickets can be an arduous ordeal, the ticketing industry is rapidly changing -- offering reselling options, subscriptions, data-driven marketing, blockchain solutions, and mobile ticketing. Here are 10 popular APIs developers can use to interact with ticketing ser … | Continue reading
Ayrshare, the social media API platform, recently announced the public launch of the Ayrshare Application Programming Interface, or API, to automate social media posting. The API addresses the needs of companies and platforms that programmatically post content to multiple social … | Continue reading
Twilio has provided a new resource that will allow developers to programmatically access individual call events. This information, which was previously only available via the Twilio Console, can now be accessed by integrating with the Call Events resource. | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Food, Shipping or Science. Featured is an API that measures a person's health by their voice and an API that converts text from audio or video files. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Postman has announced the launch of Postman Public Workspaces in an effort to accelerate API development practices through collaboration at a massive scale. This new initiative takes inspiration from the world of massively multiplayer gaming and leverages the platform’s userbase … | Continue reading
Google announced a new Transcoder API preview. It empowers users to create consumer streaming formats for direct to consumer content. This is the first Google API in a series to come for the direct to consumer market that has exploded in recent years, and accelerated during the C … | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Sports, Collaboration, and Customer Service. Featured is an API that enables applications to accept biometrics for authentication and an API for sports marketing services. Here's a rundown of the l … | Continue reading