Apple and Google have released the much anticipated first iteration of an API intended to aid in global COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. The new API is being rolled out initially to a small group of developers that will develop contact tracing applications for public health orga … | Continue reading
Hello Soda identified that many stakeholders were having difficulty implementing multiple identity verification solutions independently. Its developers have responded to this challenge and the lack of cross-solution data analysis to help perform enhanced checks with the launch of … | Continue reading
Twitter has added a new endpoint to Twitter Developer Labs to help developers and researchers better study the global conversation around COVID-19. The endpoint is a dataset that includes the tens of millions of Tweets about the global pandemic that make there way around the worl … | Continue reading
Porting.com, the leading independent provider of carrier-grade number management solutions, today announced the release of PortControl, the newest API-centric, cloud-based platform to assist carriers with local number porting (LNP) and number management. | Continue reading
Google recently announced the Display & Video 360 API. The API supports the company’s consolidated marketing platform and was designed to provide access to asynchronous Structured Data File (SDF) download functionality. Google has announced the first significant round of updates … | Continue reading
APIs are the core building blocks of digital businesses—assembling data, events and services from within the organization, throughout ecosystems, and across devices. Now with organizations moving more of their business online in the wake of COVID-19, those APIs are increasingly b … | Continue reading
Docketwise, immigration software and case management solution provider, recently announced that it's making its Immigration Software API public. By opening up the Docketwise API to third party applications, Docketwise can streamline the sharing of information within Docketwise an … | Continue reading
Vericred, a data services company simplifying the exchange of health insurance and employee benefits data, today announced the availability of its Card Scanning API, enabling applications to programmatically identify a user’s provider-network from their insurance card. | Continue reading
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Coronavirus, Recognition and Sustainability. Featured today are 6 APIs for COVID-19, an API for onboarding freelance workers, and an API for reading license plates. Here's a rundown of the late … | Continue reading
Service Objects, a company that provides APIs for contact and customer data verification, has announced a new API that provides access to global geolocation data based on address. Specifically, the DOTS Address Geocode API provides both longitude and latitude coordinates. | Continue reading
Yahoo Knowledge has announced the release of the YK-COVID-19 dataset and API. The dataset includes COVID-19 related data extracted from a number of Yahoo sources including Yahoo news, yahoo finance, Yahoo Weather, Yahoo search; then, the data is normalized against government-prov … | Continue reading
Zerion, a decentralized finance (DeFi) solution provider, has introduced a new DeFi SDK. The SDK is an open source smart contract system that makes integrating the many protocols across the DeFi space easier. More specifically, the DeFi SDK solves the fragmentation problem, while … | Continue reading
IoTerop, a provider of IoT device management solutions, has announced the general availability of the company’s IOWA Evaluation SDK. The evaluation SDK aims to lower the barrier of entry for developers looking to work with IoT deployments on constrained networks and devices. | Continue reading
Nasdaq today announced the launch of its Nasdaq Cloud Data Service, which provides clients access to real-time exchange data, index, and fund data through cloud-based technology. Users worldwide can now access Nasdaq data through a suite of highly scalable, cloud-based APIs. | Continue reading
A torrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol in which users can share videos, audio, software, and other content in a decentralized way. Developers can integrate with torrent clients to create applications for searching or other tasks. This article highlights 7 popular … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Financial, Messaging, and Augmented Reality. Highlights include the YellowSchedule API for scheduling and booking services, and the FaceX API for adding facial recognition functions to applicat … | Continue reading
Stripe has announced that the company’s Stripe Issuing API will move into general availability. The API is designed to allow for the creation and management of virtual and physical cards. The API, originally launched as invite-only, was first announced in 2018. | Continue reading
Over the past two months, as COVID-19 has proliferated, ProgrammableWeb has been tracking APIs that provide access to data related to the pandemic. The World Health Organization now reports that the virus has infected more than 2,000,000 people across more than 200 countries. | Continue reading
Square has announced the beta release of its new Square Terminal API. Through the API, developers can integrate the Square Terminal with their own POS systems. That includes mobile platforms, web, desktop, anything. All payment types are supported, including touchless, NFC techno … | Continue reading
Earlier this week European Commissioner Thierry Breton shared an image on Twitter of him having a video conference with Apple CEO Tim Cook. It has been widely reported that during this meeting Cook told the Commissioner that the COVID-19 contact tracing API will be ready for laun … | Continue reading
Tagvault.org expands its mission to provide governance of Asset APIs to include certification of contributors, content, access to content, and further development of SWID asset tags with related tagging related standards, service publications, professional events and technology d … | Continue reading
Currencycloud announced a new API that provides SWIFT gpi tracking of cross-border payments. Historically, the only providers offering cross-border payment tracking were banks. Currencycloud is changing that story, and wants to make payment tracking as simple as package tracking. | Continue reading
Since February, ProgrammableWeb has been following the COVID-19 outbreak. One question that has arisen is which APIs have gained the most traction with developers. By using our tracking capability, we are able to see the five COVID-19 related APIs that have attracted the most fol … | Continue reading
The Weather Company has announced developer access to a COVID-19 data API in support of IBM’s 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge. The new API, which can only be accessed by developers participating in the hackathon, provides the same data used in the Weather Company’s COVID-19 s … | Continue reading
GitHub Actions puts powerful CI/CD and automation directly into the developer workflow. Since then, we’ve continued to improve with artifact and dependency caching for faster workflows, self-hosted runners for greater flexibility, and the Actions API for extensibility. | Continue reading
Microsoft's latest Azure Maps updates include many new features and a number of services that are now generally available. Azure Maps on Azure Government cloud, Azure Maps Batch services, and Azure Maps Matrix Routing are all now generally available. New features were added acros … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Coronavirus, B2B, and Medical. Highlights include an API for fact checking information from Google, and an API for automating transcription services. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Last month’s announcement that Apple had purchased the popular Dark Sky weather app, and would be killing the API, left a significant void in the weather API landscape. It appears that ClimaCell is hoping to fill this void with well-timed advancements to its ClimaCell Weather AP … | Continue reading
Pastebin, a tool used by many researchers to track potential data breaches, recently announced the deprecation of its scraping API. Many security researchers rely on scraping Pastebin data to conduct critical research. To them, ending the API is throwing the baby out with the bat … | Continue reading
Google has announced that it will be moving the company’s Cloud healthcare API into general availability. The API is the result of an ongoing partnership between Google and Mayo Clinic and serves to provide scalable access to unified healthcare data. | Continue reading
With two tracing APIs preparing to be on offer to European officials, Ben Lovejoy offers an analysis on the virtues of each, outlining why he believes that the EU will adopt what he feels is the stronger option: the Contact Tracing API currently under collaborative development fr … | Continue reading
A recent research paper reports that a set of Android APIs called Installed Application Methods (IAMs) are exposing Android users' sensitive information to advertisers. IAMs can be abused to retrieve a list of other apps installed on the device which can help advertisers infer se … | Continue reading
Anyone who has experienced an earthquake knows loss of total control one feels while the Earth is shaking below their feet. Developers wanting to create earthquake related applications should check out the Earthquakes category on ProgrammableWeb for the best APIs. Here are six of … | Continue reading
Eighteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including COVID-19, DevOps, and eCommerce. Highlights include another ten APIs for Coronavirus data, and the MantisBT API for integration with the bug tracking software. Here's a rundown of the latest ad … | Continue reading
The EU released guidance for the development and management of COVID-19 contact tracing applications. The guidance outlines standards for national applications that require they be voluntary, approved by the national health authority, easily dismantled when no longer needed, and … | Continue reading
Over the past two months, as COVID-19 has proliferated, ProgrammableWeb has been tracking APIs that provide access to data related to the pandemic. The World Health Organization now reports that the virus has infected more than 2,000,000 people across more than 200 countries. | Continue reading
Dealer.com announces a new integration enhancement to help dealers deliver a better online user experience. The new API makes it easier to create third-party experiences on the Dealer.com platform, ultimately building more trust between shoppers and dealers through seamless user … | Continue reading
VibePay, a UK-based payments application, has announced the release of a new API for business payment transfers and online subscription payment processing. The company had planned on releasing this latest API toward the end of 2020 but accelerated plans as a result of COVID-19. | Continue reading
VeChain, an IoT and blockchain provider, has released v1.3.3 of VeChain Thor, its general-purpose blockchain offering. The release is primarily a maintenance release but includes a new feature that allows apps to query the API for information related to pending transactions. | Continue reading
VisualCamp has launched its "SeeSo" website on April 13, a mobile eye tracking and gaze analytic SDK that allows developers to know where users are looking and their concentration. SeeSo website is an SDK management all-in-one platform for app developers. | Continue reading
AllSported, a trading solution and provider of racing odds, has announced the release of an API specifically designed to provide greyhound racing data. The new API will provide details on pricing changes based on market movements and wagers placed. | Continue reading
Agero, a provider of software-enabled driver assistance services for insurance providers and automotive manufacturers, has re-platformed its Accident Management product. The new platform is easier to use, has greater security and transparency, and provides time and cost savings f … | Continue reading
Uber has introduced a new distributed computing library for computer clusters: Fiber. Fiber is Python-based and allows programmers to program a cluster of computers much in the way they would typically program a laptop or desktop. Uber had originally developed Fiber for projects … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced updates to the Azure Maps Web SDK that includes increased support for common spatial file formats like KML, KMZ, GPX, GeoRSS, GML, GeoJSON, and CSV. Additionally, the SDK includes new pop-up templates and drawing tools. | Continue reading
Sixteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Music, SEO and Cryptocurrency. Highlights include an API for automating a smart garden, an API for music recognition, and three more APIs for COVID-19 data. Here's a rundown of the latest additi … | Continue reading
Frollo, Australia banking service provider, has announced its Open Banking Product Data API. New open banking regulations go into effect in Australia on July 1. The goal of Frollo's API is to help data holders comply with new requirements without hassle. The API works regardless … | Continue reading
GitHub has announced that private repositories with unlimited collaborators will now be free for everyone. Additionally, the company is lowering the cost of its paid plans in order to improve affordability for teams that require advanced features and personalized support. | Continue reading
Over at HACKADAY, writer Tom Nardi has come up with a presentation of the top five resources (including his own) for pulling raw COVID-19 data, along with mini-tutorials for the best ways to extract the data. He gives an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of each tool. | Continue reading