HealthVerity today announced the commercial availability of its integrated cloud platform offering flexible technologies that empower healthcare enterprises to design and build their own unique data strategy, data workflow or data universe, all in a privacy-protected manner. | Continue reading
Farmers have recently adopted "AgTech" technologies such as IoT sensors, smart farm equipment, predictive tools for rain & irrigation, and many more to more precisely, efficiently and sustainably. APIs are the driving force of agricultural digital transformation, and here we high … | Continue reading
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Non-Profit, Messaging, and Recognition. Highlights include an API that provides electoral vote data and an API from Sinch that aggregates messaging services. Here's a rundown of the latest additio … | Continue reading
Pie Insurance today launched its API for partners. Using Pie's API, partners who serve small businesses can easily get a quote without leaving their platform or website, this is intended to streamline the process and help clients save on workers' comp insurance. | Continue reading
Facebook has announced the release of Graph API v9.0 and Marketing API v9.0. These updates included several changes that require developer action in order to ensure that production applications are not interrupted. Additional updates include adjustments to Instagram Follower cou … | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Entertainment, Augmented Reality, and Machine Learning. Highlights include an API for retrieving data from the App Store and an API for determining walkability in neighborhoods. Here's a look at … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced that in an effort to provide increased security GitHub nad Visual Studio users will no longer be able to use account passwords for API authentication. The company will soon require token-based authentication for all interactions that require authenticatio … | Continue reading
Election integrity is front and center in the United States as a result of last week’s presidential election and the tension that delayed results have caused in a national electorate that is desperate for certainty. It is clear that the Associated Press some this coming and took … | Continue reading
Spelling and grammar mistakes can turn an otherwise brilliant essay into an incomprehensible mess. Luckily, technology has supplied us with countless tools to help us write without grammatical and spelling errors. Here are ProgrammableWeb's top APIs for adding spelling services t … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Text-to-Speech, Astronomy, and Astrology. Highlights include the Billby API for adding subscription functions to applications and an API for email verification. Here's a rundown of the latest addi … | Continue reading
Developers have many reasons for adding math functions to applications, and they need Math application programming interfaces, or APIs to complete that task. ProgrammableWeb is the best place to find these APIs. In this article, we highlight the eleven most popular Math APIs. | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Billing, Voting, and Cryptocurrency. Highlights include an API that returns nonpartisan analysis for US elections and an API that provides marine weather and conditions information. Here's a look a … | 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 Quinton Wall from Twilio to learn what drives it's en … | Continue reading
Walgreens last week announced the deprecation of the Balance Rewards for Healthy Choices (BRhc) API. The announcement was made on October 30th and the deprecation date is set for November 4th. A five-day notice for a service deprecation is disrespectful to developers. | Continue reading
Radius Bank, a forward-thinking digital bank, announced today the next step in its partnership with API (application programming interface) banking leader Treasury Prime with the launch of their Commercial API Banking Platform and corresponding sandbox testing environment. | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Writing, Environment, and Financial. Highlighted here is an API for real time foreign exchange data, an API for air quality data, and an API for discovering memes. Here's a rundown of the latest a … | Continue reading
Sinch has announced the release of a new Conversation API that is designed to simplify the unification process of messaging across myriad channels and technologies. With the pandemic pushing the global workforce into remote environments communication fragmentation has increased e … | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Stocks, Identity, Auto, and Podcasts. Highlights include an API for the Notejoy collaborative notes platform and an API for interacting with elevator data. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
In this article we'll look at how the Messaging as a Service platform Ably.io uses gRPC to optimize its service's streaming capabilities. We'll provide a brief overview of the Ably.io tech stack and then we'll look at how gRPC is used to optimize communication in the service's co … | Continue reading
The Firebase Summit 2020 is going on right now. The company has introduced several new features and updates to the platform, all designed to make app development easier. The main feature updates fall into three categories: emulator tools, data analysis tools, and performance insi … | Continue reading
In this series we've presented the basics of what the gRPC specification is and how it works. In this installment, we will take a real-world look at how the Source Control Management Service GitLab adopted gRPC when it refactored its server-side architecture into the Gitaly proje … | Continue reading
An essential part of any API strategy is to engage with your developer ecosystem. This interview is the first in a series where ProgrammableWeb talks to providers about their best practices for engaging with developers. We talk with Nick Tran from Postman to learn about how he se … | Continue reading
GraphQL Editor announced today the release of Version 3.0 of its flagship development tool. The new release of GraphQL Editor 3.0 offers a variety of new features that intended to improve the productivity of developers creating APIs according to the GraphQL specification. | Continue reading
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the API business models being used by providers today. It revisits the old API business models to see what has changed and also identifies all of the newcomers based on real-world observations across the API economy over the last f … | Continue reading
In this article we're going to look at how gRPC is used by Kubernetes in its Container Runtime Interface (CRI) technology. Bit first, why aren't we seeing that much gRPC on the front-end? It's a question that's been asked many times now and it is one that is well worth answering. | Continue reading
Chat applications are hugely popular these days, and developers wanting to add chat functions to applications need to find the most suitable APIs to accomplish this task. In this article, we highlight the eleven most popular Chat APIs based on website traffic on ProgrammableWeb. | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Business, Contacts, and Restaurants. Highlights include an API that returns the most recent satellite imagery of Earth and an API that returns company brand logos and information. Here's a look a … | Continue reading
It is entirely possible to make it so that an API layer serves as the master control center for all activity taking place inside and outside a computing domain. In other words, an API layer can be the one ring that rules them all, which is the approach seen in a Kubernetes instal … | Continue reading
RapidAPI has launched RapidAPI Testing. The new offering aims to allow developers to create and manage API tests from development to deployment. It supports API types including REST, SOAP, and GraphQL. APIs can be added from RapidAPI Marketplace and Enterprise Hub. | Continue reading
Facebook has announced the launch of beta access to a new Messenger API feature which will provide support for Instagram messaging capabilities. Facebook is hoping to provide businesses with the tools necessary to improve customer satisfaction and facilitate meaningful conversat … | Continue reading
RingCentral, Inc., a provider of global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration, and contact center solutions, today announced a new high-volume SMS service that enables businesses to send SMS messages and updates to their customers rapidly. | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Location, Mapping, and Graphics. Highlights include the Smithsonian Institution Open Access API and and API for Placekey universal address identification service. Here's a rundown of the latest add … | Continue reading
PointCare, an insurance coverage platform that assists enrollment teams with qualifying patients, has launched a new API that provides healthcare organizations with insurance and benefit options. PointCare’s Qualify API highlights the power of APIs to enable agility in industrie … | Continue reading
Since February of this year, ProgrammableWeb has been tracking APIs that provide access to data related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article highlights the available APIs. The World Health Organization now reports that the virus has infected over 40,000,000 people across more t … | Continue reading
Sustaining or even improving our environment weighs heavy on the minds of many of us. Developers hoping to make a difference by creating applications with data about the environment around us need the correct APIs to get the job done. Here are 10 popular Environment APIs from Pro … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Museums, Math, and Spelling. Highlights include an Arabic spelling check API and an API for capturing receipt information and making it machine readable. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Ekata, a company that provides identity verification APIs that assist in risk assessment, has announced a new API that is designed to combat synthetic identity fraud. The new Ekata Account Opening API helps developers weed out bad actors from authentic customers during the onboa … | Continue reading
While gRPC brings a lot of power to enterprise level distributed computing, it's not an easy technology to implement. Fortunately there are projects that provide the necessary framework to do this. This article focuses on a detailed examination of the Node.js implementation of gR … | Continue reading
The objective of this article is to explain how to get protoc, a tool that does a lot of the mundane work that goes with creating code for a gRPC API, up and running to auto-generate gRPC code in a variety of programming languages. We'll cover auto-generating code in JavaScript, … | Continue reading
In this articlet, we're going to take a detailed look at gRPC. We're going to cover the essentials of gRPC architecture in terms of specification and implementation. Then, we're going to take a detailed look at the underlying concepts and practices required to create a gRPC API. | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Social, Data Mining and Graphics. Highlights include an API which provides DigitaltMuseum collection data in Norway and Sweden and an API to retrieve postal codes globally. Here's a rundown of th … | Continue reading
Last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments regarding Oracle v. Google were the culmination of a decade-long legal battle between the two tech giants. Frustratingly, only questions remain as the oral arguments were dominated by the usual search for a legal precedent. | Continue reading
Cosmos, an interoperable blockchain ecosystem, has increased its incentives for its bug bounty program for the Cosmos Stargate software upgrade. The bug bounty will allow hackers, developers, and the community to trial and debug the upgrades and breaking changes to the Cosmos SDK … | Continue reading
Most application users are familiar with the front-end, or client-side, of an application. But there is more than meets the eye to web applications. For most applications, user interactions take place behind the scenes, in the backend. In this article we highlight 10 popular Back … | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Transportation, Museums, and Location. Highlights include an API that provides estimates about C02 emissions and an API for adding users to a waiting list. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
As of today, there are fourteen contact tracing apps in the continental United States. The most recent additions are in North Carolina, New York, and New Jersey. All are interactive with states with contact tracing apps built around the Apple-Google API. | Continue reading
gRPC is an API framework that allows a program in one location on the internet to pass data to a distinct function in another program at another location on the internet. In this article, we're going to discuss how gRPC emerged on the landscape of distributed computing and explai … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Graphics, Education, and Holidays. Highlights include an API for working with Ethereum tokens, an API for integrating human voice over functions, and some APIs that assist designers with graphic p … | Continue reading