Latest gaming-focused API meant to help reduce the time it takes to download and install games so end users can start gameplay faster while enjoying games with smaller footprints. The Google Play Asset Deliver API is flexible, has a small footprint, and is free for developers to … | Continue reading
Earlier this year IBM announced the annual Call for Code Challenge. The intention was that Call for Code participants would use technology to help fight climate change. This vision has been expanded to include a call for developers to create solutions aimed at solving the COVID- … | Continue reading
Spotify has launched a suite of Podcast APIs. Through the APIs, developers can create Podcast experiences specifically for Spotify listeners. The Podcast APIs add nine new endpoints to Spotify's host of developer APIs. For the moment, all of the new Podcast endpoints are in beta. | Continue reading
One significant challenge posed by digital transformation is the need for organizations to leverage existing technology investments, which often hold business and technical intellectual property built up over many years. The combination of integration and API is a powerful tool. | Continue reading
ProgrammableWeb recently spoke with Scott Ge, CEO & Co-founder at Smartable AI, to discuss the company’s COVID-19 Stats & News API and the challenges related to creating such a resource. The API provides developers with access to data that is validated regularly via a custom alg … | Continue reading
Threatpost writer Lindsey O’Donnell interviewed Akamai security researcher Steve Regan about what Akamai is discovering during their research into creative cyber attacks, diving into how criminals are keeping up with and course-correcting for the newest layered security developme … | Continue reading
Retailers and ecommerce providers know that coupons are effective marketing tools for engaging customers and building loyalty to brands. Developers who create applications that are wishing to cash in on the coupon craze can look to find these 10 popular APIs, plus others, on Prog … | Continue reading
The CDC recently reported that it will no longer report the number of persons tested for COVID-19, nor the number of negative tests returned. Because states are now driving the testing effort, the CDC no longer believes its data can be meaningful. The COVID Tracking Project looks … | Continue reading
Twenty-eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Collaboration, and Machine Learning. Highlights include the Google Cloud AI Platform Pipelines API and APIs from Commerce Cloud by Salesforce. Here's a rundown of the latest addi … | Continue reading
Google has been regularly updating the Google Ad Manager API and this week brings news of additional changes. This latest update provides developers with new metrics for Programmatic Guaranteed and Preferred Deals. The company made the change to increase uniformity of reporting … | Continue reading
Google announced that it will discontinue support for the JSON-RPC protocol and Global HTTP Batch. Google had originally planned to discontinue support for both features in 2019, but has now extended the deadline to August 12, 2020. Visit the blog post announcement for migration … | Continue reading
Dynatrace has announced the release of the all-new Dynatrace Environment API. The new API is a part of the company’s Cluster API and appears to be in beta. Dynatrace is providing this resource to enable developers to automatically create, update, or delete monitoring environment … | Continue reading
While a recent MuleSoft survey indicates that businesses see digital transformation as being critical to their success, a majority of IT leaders still picture themselves as keeping the lights on versus innovating. ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind discusses the findings with MuleSo … | Continue reading
The Financial Data Exchange has released the 4th version of the FDX API, an updated standard designed to enhance interoperability and performance for the full range of supported use cases. The previous versions were rapidly adopted by the industry and protect nearly 12 million U. … | Continue reading
Oracle recently announced Java 14. JDK 14 includes sixteen new features, most targeted at improving developer productivity. Additionally, the release includes three features in preview: Pattern Matching for instance of (JEP 305), Records (JEP 359), and Text Blocks (JEP 368). | Continue reading
Last December, in Wuhan, a city in China's Hubei Province, a new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, was first identified. Since that time, the World Health Organization reports that the virus has spread rapidly, infecting more than 200,000 people across more than 170 countries. | Continue reading
Smartable AI, an artificial intelligence services provider, has announced free access to the company’s newly developed COVID-19 Stats & News API. The API provides data collected from credible sources that is segmented by country or state and updated hourly. | Continue reading
On Monday, Discord Tweeted that it increased its capacity by 20% in order to make sure that those isolating themselves due to the Coronavirus could continue to text, video and voice chat without interruption. Less than an hour later, the service was completely unavailable due to … | Continue reading
Today, API security provider and creator of REST API DevSecOps tooling, 42Crunch, announced the launch of their new REST API Static Security Testing extension for Microsoft Azure Pipelines. This extension enables companies to enforce secure API design right from their CI/CD pipel … | Continue reading
In this presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, David Berlind, editor in chief of ProgrammableWeb interviews Andrew Lawrence, director of product management at Commerce Cloud at Salesforce .... (more, tk) Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Video, Stocks, Music, and Science. Featured is the Health Gorilla API, a healthcare API that can be used to send and receive COVID-19 test results. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Weather Source, a provider of weather and climate technologies for business intelligence, is offering free access to weather and climate data for the purpose of COVID-19 research. The Weather Source dataset is a curated continuum of historical, present, forecast, and climatology … | Continue reading
Amazon originally announced the developer preview of HTTP APIs for Amazon API Gateway in December of 2019, the company has recently transitioned this offering into general availability. The new HTTP APIs is intended to provide a simpler way to create low cost, low latency APIs. | Continue reading
AppBrilliance has launched its Payments/Money Movement SDK for both iOS and Android. AppBrilliance differentiates its mobile payments platform by running on the edge of networks. In other words, the platform runs directly on a trusted app on an edge device. The distributed model … | Continue reading
GitHub today announced plans to purchase JavaScript package manager npm and noted that they plan to keep the resource free and available. Additionally, GitHub expressed intent to invest in npm’s registry infrastructure, improve the developer experience, and help foster community … | Continue reading
VRTCAL today announced the release of its SDKs for Android and iOS mobile devices. The SDKs provide developers with quality control for mobile application ads — such as creative quality control filters — as well as an easy integration process, fluid mediation, and user engageme … | Continue reading
As part of our ongoing series on best in class API portals, this article looks at Stripe, a payments technology provider, and the features that make its API reference stand out. Stripe gets the basics right, but also adds lots of little details that go a long way towards creating … | Continue reading
Google has beta released its new Cloud AI Platform Pipelines. It allows developers to deploy robust, repeatable ML pipelines that include monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility. Google has specifically designed the offering to be enterprise-ready, simple to i … | Continue reading
While private sector companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc. draw closer to perfected digital states, the public sector (government agencies and orgs) are woefully behind. In bringing together developers, civic techies, and government officials, Code for America is hopin … | Continue reading
Nothing is safe from digital transformation, not even the trusty credit card. Developers looking to create applications involving credit cards can find hundreds of useful APIs in the ProgrammableWeb directory. Here we highlight the ten most popular credit card APIs according to o … | Continue reading
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Blockchain, Shipping, and Coronavirus. Highlights include an API for determining the most efficient way to pack a shipping container, and an API that returns daily COVID-19 data. Take a look at … | Continue reading
Twitter has announced a complete rewrite of the company’s developer policies. This is intended to clearly communicate appropriate developer use cases. Additionally, the new policies are expanded to include a more direct path for developers that are hoping to engage in non-commer … | Continue reading
MyRouteOnline announced the immediate availability of two application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable easy integration of the MyRouteOnline route planner with any 3rd party software. These APIs mean that customers can integrate MyRouteOnline with their back-office busines … | Continue reading
OpenWater is opening up its software platform to third party developers. Through the OpenWater SDK and API, third parties can directly integrate application and review management to their list of services. Prior to the API and SDK, users had to outsource the process to OpenWater. | Continue reading
IBM has announced several new IBM Watson technologies that the company hopes will advance the Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities within Watson APIs. These new features include advanced sentiment analysis, advanced topic clustering, and summarization tools. | Continue reading
In this edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind chats with Contentful VP Benjamin Keyser about the idea of an API-first "headless" content management system and what his company is doing to accelerate the developer path … | Continue reading
Google announced that on April 1, Google Ads API will stop creation of App engagement campaigns for any app in a prohibited category. As of now, developers can create App engagement campaigns for apps in any category. The only current limitation is that prohibited category apps c … | Continue reading
Instagram had previously reported that the company would deprecate the Legacy API platform on March 2nd, 2020. As that date approached Instagram was forced to delay the deprecation date until March 31, 2020, to provide developers the time needed to transition. | Continue reading
Health Gorilla announced that its API can now be used to place COVID-19 test orders and receive test results from a number of diagnostic vendors. The lab network API is used by thousands of providers and health organizations worldwide to enable electronic lab ordering and results … | Continue reading
Display & Video 360 is Google’s consolidated marketing platform that helps marketers manage their campaigns across display, video, TV, audio, etc. The platform is designed to increase productivity in collaborative environments and simplify marketing data visualization through co … | Continue reading
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Big Data and Financial. Highlights include the PatherizerEV API for providing route optimization for electronic vehicles, and ScopeMaster API for software requirements analysis. Here's a look a … | Continue reading
AppNeta, the leader in actionable, 4-Dimensional network performance monitoring, today announces enhanced functionality to monitor APIs that delivers active insights into the performance of third-party SaaS, mobile apps and APIs that are critical across the enterprise. | Continue reading
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has finalized two rules aimed at delivering US patients better access to their own health data. Two different departments under HHS (ONC and CMS) have issued these rules, and both rules require the use of APIs for easier patien … | Continue reading
API veteran Adam DuVander recently contributed an article over at Stoplight.io detailing “A Real-World Look at Building Great APIs.” This post will probe some of Adam’s key points, examining why his ideas matter to developers and other business stakeholders alike. | Continue reading
Spectre.AI, the provider of a broker-less trading platform that uses blockchain to trade digital contracts, has announced a new API. The company hopes that the beta Spectre.AI Hyper API will streamline access to the platform’s data, while also providing entry speeds of just 2 mi … | Continue reading
The latest Go API release includes support for protocol buffers: Google's language-neutral and platform-neutral data interchange format. Although protocol buffer bindings were originally rolled out years ago, Go and protocol buffers have both evolved, and the need for a rebuild a … | Continue reading
Time is on your side, if you are a developer looking to add time related data to an application. ProgrammableWeb currently contains more than 80 APIs that provide services for time tracking, time tables, timers, time zones, and all other matters of time. These are the ten most po … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Cryptocurrency, Games, and Astronomy. Highlights include an API for monitoring Covid-19 cases, an API for posting mail, and various APIs plus new API versions, from NASA. Here's a rundown of the … | Continue reading