Relay Medical Corp., a Canadian provider of MedTech solutions, has announced a new API for the company’s Pharmatrac Medication Management System. The new API provides opportunities for greater integration with Relay’s partners in the telemedicine and medication management market … | Continue reading
New Change FX (NCFX) has introduced a new suite of Foreign Exchange APIs. The suite includes three categories of APIs: NCFX Data APIs, NCFX Calculation APIs, and NCFX Model APIs. This means that customers are an API call away from NCFX benchmark data, calculations, and models. | Continue reading
As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread worldwide, APIs can help make information about it widely available. The GitHub repository under the name NovelCOVID has released an API that tracks data about the number of current cases of the virus. It is a simple RESTful API wit … | 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 95,000 people across 85 countries. | Continue reading
Apple recently updated its App Store review guidelines and made some eye-opening changes. For example, developers can now use push notifications for advertising or marketing purposes. Though user authorization is required, this is sure to develop into a thorny issue over time. | Continue reading
The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of V1 of Apache Brooklyn, an open-source framework for modeling, monitoring, and managing applications. The foundation notes that the release of V1 is indicative of Brooklyn having achieved sufficient maturity and stability … | Continue reading
Microsoft has introduced a call records API as part of Microsoft Graph. The API is currently in beta and provides usage and diagnostic information about calls and online meetings. The API provides data for call records, sessions, and segments made through Microsoft Teams or Skype … | Continue reading
The Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API has been updated to include support for seven new languages, additional enhanced telephony models, broader speech adaptation, and more. The improvements to the API serve to improve the availability of Google’s speech recognition technologies a … | Continue reading
SendBird, a provider of chat API services for mobile and web applications, today announced significant platform additions designed to make chat easy and accessible to any tech-driven company, from ride-sharing services to marketplaces to online communities to dating apps. | Continue reading
The Khronos Group announces that its Analytic Rendering Exploratory Group has received strong industry support and is transitioning to a full Working Group to create an analytic rendering interface API for data visualization. This new API will be called ‘ANARI’. | Continue reading
TranslateMe, an AI-driven decentralized translation platform, announced the release of a French to English Translation API. TranslateMe uses a block-chain, decentralized model to execute its translation algorithms. The company's algorithm's learned French to English in four days … | Continue reading
Laravel, the "PHP framework for web artisans," has released version 7. Laravel 7 includes better routing speed, a new HTTP client, CORS support and other enhancements. New features include Laravel Airlock, custom Eloquent casts, Blade component tags, and fluent string operations. | Continue reading
Nubentos, the self-proclaimed API marketplace for health, has released a new API that aims to provide valuable resources for tracking the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The new API provides developers access to data collected from global health organizations and local administrat … | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Science, Voting, and Extraction. Highlights include the SciTools Plus API for genetic analysis, and the GHO API from the World Health Organization for health data. Here's a rundown of the latest add … | Continue reading
Amazon has announced a Preview version of ACS for Devices. ACS for Devices is a streamlined method to deploy Amazon Device SDKs on devices. Amazon already uses ACS internally for devices such as the Echo Dot and Amazon Smart Oven. | Continue reading
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple are on the cusp of disrupting the financial sector. Developers looking to create applications that mine, store, buy, sell, or trade cryptocurrency need suitable APIs. Here, we highlight 10 popular ones found on Prog … | Continue reading
Developers wishing to create applications about crime fighting can find dozens of useful APIs in the Crime category of ProgrammableWeb. In this article, we highlight ten of the most popular Crime APIs covering crime data including jail information, sex offender information, crime … | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Voting, Cryptocurrency, and WebRTC. Highlights include the Wall Street Horizon Enchilada for corporate event data, and NeuroVault API for retrieving neuroimaging brain statistical maps. Here's a lo … | Continue reading
OGC API – Features provide the fundamental API building blocks to create, modify, and query ‘features’ on the Web (features are simply the digital representations of objects of interest in the real world). OGC API – Features is comprised of multiple parts, with each part being a … | Continue reading
IWL, a California-based networking company, recently announced a new Python API for its SilverCreek SNMP Test Suite. Users may now perform SNMP operations, receive traps and automate test execution from the command line. Both Python 2.7.x and 3.x are supported. | Continue reading
Google has announced the release of a new iteration of the Google Ads API beta. V3 of the API introduces new ways to handle the retrieval of large scale data, new methods for creating and editing hotel pay per stay campaigns, and more. | Continue reading
David Berlind delivers Part 2 of his long-running college course on APIs reviews the importance of API contracts and what it means for Web APIs to decouple API clients from API servers. He provides real-world examples of how that decoupled nature affords some amazing flexibility. | Continue reading
Facebook has filed a lawsuit against OneAudience. The lawsuit alleges that OneAudience paid app developers to embed its SDK on applications that collected personal data from users on Twitter, Facebook, and Google. Facebook and Twitter both exposed the company's practices in Novem … | Continue reading
Lonely Planet, a publisher of travel guides and eBooks, has announced plans to provide access to over 8,000 city guides via API. The Australia based travel company hopes that providing API access to their catalog of content will help grow a thriving partner program. | Continue reading
Shopify just introduced its new API Health Report. It turns Shopify's change log into a dynamic tool. Using the API Heath Report, developers can check their private and custom apps for any deprecated API calls those apps might be making. The tool looks at calls made in the past 3 … | Continue reading
In late 2019 Twitter announced Hide Replies, a new feature that was designed to allow users to choose which replies to their content are hidden from the conversation. This troll taming functionality is now being exposed via API, allowing developers to automate the process. | Continue reading
Google has announced a new Cloud Code API manager. Cloud Code streamlines the process of adding Google Cloud APIs to applications, while remaining in the integrated development environment. Prior to this API management functionality, adding multiple Google Cloud APIs required rep … | Continue reading
The team at vpnMentor has discovered an issue that left exposed millions of records containing personal data belonging to the customers of an international fitness retailer. Decathlon, a sporting goods retailer based in France, operated the ElasticSearch server at the center of … | Continue reading
You’ve been tasked with utilizing a HIPAA compliant fax API for your company or client. You understand what fax is, but how do you make it HIPAA compliant? If you Google search HIPAA compliance you will see things like needing a BAA, cover pages, disclaimers, and massive fines fo … | Continue reading
Four51 has redesigned and relaunched its OrderCloud.io developer portal. The new portal was rebuilt from the ground up with key features including a UI designed for developers and non developers, persistent tabs, document searchability, and open sourced documentation available at … | 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 76,000 people across 26 countries. | 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 76,000 people across 26 countries. | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Banking, Human Resources, and Events. Highlights include Skedulo APIs for managing mobile workforces and the BallotReady API for returning candidate and ballot initiative information. Here's a … | Continue reading
Even with today's open source technologies for applying artificial intelligence and machine learning, there are still some thorny challenges to getting both right. Especially at a reasonable cost to both the pocketbook and the planet. But API-led approaches might be able to ease … | Continue reading
In this episode of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock podcast, ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind and Bob Reselman talk GraphQL with Geoff Schmidt, co-founder of Apollo GraphQL; the leading solution provider for standing-up GraphQL-based APIs. Federation of "the graphs" was one of th … | Continue reading
Google has announced the general availability of important API security products. Google reCaptcha API is now generally available, after years of testing. Second, the Google Web Risk API which keeps lists of millions of unsafe URLs is also now generally available and ready for pr … | Continue reading
This month (March 2020), in addition to ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind's presentation of Part 3 of his long running (and updated) API 101 series, Balvinder Singh from Walmart Labs will be talking about serverless backends using BigParser APIs at the Dc-Area API Mee … | Continue reading
Developers looking to create applications for job seekers, or for those seeking to fill jobs, should check out the ProgrammableWeb Jobs category for the most suitable APIs. In this article, we highlight the ten most popular APIs from the Jobs category based on website user traffi … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Printing, Games, Messaging, and Cryptocurrency. Highlights include the KubeVirt API for managing VMs in Kubernetes and an API for advertising service AdGlare. Here's a rundown of the latest addit … | Continue reading
RIA in a Box, a provider of compliance software for the wealth management industry, has announced a new API for the company’s MyRIACompliance platform. This new tool aims to streamline integration with third-party portfolio management system data. | Continue reading
gRPC is an alternative architectural pattern to REST and GraphQL for providing and consuming APIs. It's becoming a popular way among many companies to create APIs intended to run at web-scale compared to the other architectures that often rely on data formatting standards such as … | Continue reading
The Google Cloud Vision API will no longer provide gender determination as part of its image analysis functionality. The announcement directly affects the ‘LABEL_DETECTION’ function of the API which prior to today would return labels such as ‘woman’ or ‘man’. | Continue reading
Google surprised many when it released the first developer preview of Android 11 this week. The forthcoming new version of Android is here with loads of new and changed APIs for developers to sink their teeth into. The biggest features tackle 5G, privacy, foldables, photography a … | Continue reading
Twilio has released its annual State of Customer Engagement Report and to find out more about the report and the trends that it spotlights, ProgrammableWeb's editor-in-chief David Berlind captured a video interview with Al Cook, the company's Vice President and General Manager of … | Continue reading
Intellect SEEC announced today the launch of its Contextual Sentiment API on the AWS marketplace. This API uses Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology to provide real-time text analysis and score/measure the contextual emotional response to a product/br … | Continue reading
Edamam’s nutrition data APIs allow developers and companies to build applications that leverage Edamam’s capabilities in real-time Nutrition Analysis and Personalized Meal Recommendations, as well as to query one of the most comprehensive food nutrition databases. | Continue reading
SWIFT, a provider of financial messaging services, is set to host a two-day hackathon at its annual African Regional Conference. The hackathon, which will take place on April 21st - 23rd in Cape Town, South Africa, will focus on developing solutions for cross-border financial ser … | Continue reading
Google has announced the general availability of its Stackdriver Cloud Monitoring dashboards API. The dashboards API is part of Google Cloud. It allows users to read the configuration for existing dashboards, create new dashboards, update existing dashboards and delete dashboards … | Continue reading