The latest version of Google's Chrome browser packs in a bevy of new features for developers and users alike. The two big additions are support for augmented reality and hit-testing thanks to new APIs, as well as web NFC for mobile. As always, there are lots of smaller changes to … | Continue reading
United Network for Organ Sharing is a non-profit organization that manages a national medical transplant database in coordination with the U.S. federal government. The organization operates a platform called UNet, providing developers with several APIs that enable integration wi … | Continue reading
Nine more APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Internet of Things, Voting, and Agriculture. Included is an API that determines optimal flight patterns while considering cosmic ray exposure, and the Democracy Works API for voting data. | Continue reading
Belvo, an open banking API provider for the Latin American market, is now live. After a successful beta program that began last October, Belvo is fully up and running with a number of developer resources available, including the Belvo API, Python SDK, and developer portal. | Continue reading
Developers looking to create applications for Astronomy buffs can choose from over one hundred APIs on ProgrammableWeb for access to data about stars, planets, space travel, telescopes, space imagery, satellites, and much more. Here, we detail the ten most popular APIs for Astron … | Continue reading
Global InsureTech company Insubuy, Inc., has announced the launch of its new OmniSecure API. OmniSecure is a Global Distribution System API that allows Insubuy's sub-agents to painlessly integrate travel medical insurance products from various insurance companies into their exis … | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Sustainability, Contracts, and Law. Highlights include APIs for reforestation and workforce drug screening, and an API that provides legal electronic signature functions. Here's a rundown of the lat … | Continue reading
Kraken, a popular bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange, has announced plans to release new functionality for the company’s WebSockets API on February 18th. The new functionality is aimed at providing a faster way for developers to add and cancel orders. | Continue reading
Neurala, AI-powered visual inspection solution provider, recently announced that its Brain Builder SDK has now been optimized to enable edge learning for use cases such as manufacturing. Brain Builder is a vision AI platform and allows users to build customized AI solutions on a … | Continue reading
The City University of Hong Kong has embraced an API-led approach to education. This move allows CityU to harness the power of APIs while integrating essential elements from their legacy system. Adoption of the new platform is a unifying stroke for their campus. | Continue reading
Google recently introduced new video ad features in the v202002 release of Google Ad Manager API. The most significant improvements include enhancements to historical reports, association between video creative and ad registries (e.g. Ad-ID or Clearcast), and metadata additions. | Continue reading
Appdome and ImmuniWeb have announced a new initiative that aims to find and remediate mobile application security vulnerabilities. The joint initiative, MobileTRUST, is an attempt to provide developers with a simple and reliable solution for rapid application security validation. | Continue reading
NIUM, one of the world’s largest Global Financial Infrastructure Platform providers today announced the launch of “BOLT”, its unique platform to boost innovation in the global Fintech space and help entrepreneurs speed their products/services to market. | Continue reading
If you're trying to build a highly usable developer tool, then a proper Command Line Interface (CLI) to interface with your API is paramount. This article outlines what we found to be best practices among other CLI tools and developers' needs when it comes to building a proper CL … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Microsoft presented a vision for dual screens. Windows 10X is Microsoft's version of Windows for a dual screen world. While the presentation was full of announcements related to dual screens, the Windows 10X emulator should be a particular interest to developers. | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Business, WebRTC, and Sustainability. Highlights include an API for determining clothing fit recommendations, and an API for filtering vulgar language. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Security researchers have identified various vulnerabilities within the SoundCloud API that could have allowed attackers to gain access to user accounts and easily initiate DDoS attacks. Checkmarx Research conducted an investigation into the online social music platform. | Continue reading
Sony has announced a new SDK for its line of cameras. The SDK gives third party developers remote access and control over such cameras. Commercial customers have long requested access from Sony, and the SDK is Sony's answer. Camera controls and image data are available through th … | Continue reading
A political campaign app designed for the Likud party in Isreal has been found to include a basic API flaw that exposed the personal information of almost 6.5 million users. Likud, the party of Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, designed the app to help users receive campaign news … | Continue reading
Developers looking to create applications for, or about, restaurants can find data about menus, locations, ratings, operations, recipes, nutrition, staffing and more in the ProgrammableWeb API directory. In this article we highlight top APIs from our Restaurants category for crea … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including IoT, 3D, and Virtualization. Highlights include an API that enables IoT devices to notify the authorities in case of an emergency, and an API for encrypting and signing documents. Here's a look at … | Continue reading
Last week GitHub announced the beta release of the GitHub Actions API. Today, the company is expanding the availability of the API to include all repositories. Additionally, GitHub provided us with a little more detail on the API’s benefits to users. | Continue reading
Apple has recently announced the beta version of iOS 13.4 and developers have noticed an exciting new API that may portend all-new iOS features. The new CarKey API that has been found in the latest release is expected to allow iOS users to unlock their cars using NFC (near-field … | Continue reading
Service Objects, real-time global contact validation solution provider, has released a major upgrade to its DOTS Address Validation – Canada API-based service. This Canada-specific version of DOTS Address Validation uses address matching algorithms to verify, correct and change C … | Continue reading
Facebook has announced the release of a new beta API that will provide businesses with a method for offering its customers simple follow-up information. The new Messenger One-Time Notification API is designed for situations like price drops of merchandise or changes in availabili … | Continue reading
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, a post-trade financial services company providing clearing and settlement services, has launched an API marketplace. The marketplace will provide DTCC customers and partners with a single location for APIs developed by DTCC for its var … | Continue reading
Postman has bolstered its enterprise platform with two new features. API Builder allows developers to build APIs directly within Postman. A new reporting feature, currently in beta, provides insight regarding how APIs are used throughout a particular development environment. | Continue reading
Twitter recently announced that on December 24, 2019, it became aware of a large network of fake accounts that were abusing the company’s API to match phone numbers to user’s accounts. Twitter noted that these attacks may be connected to state-sponsored actors from Iran, Israel, … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Payments, Storage, Video, and Marketing. Highlights include an API for fashion recognition and an API for Iron Mountain enterprise storage solutions. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Paytm today launched an All-In-One payments system along with an SDK for third-party integration. The All-In-One system includes point-of-sale touchscreen machines, payment gateway switches and a QR code that works across UPI through Paytm or other apps, RuPay cards and for Paytm … | Continue reading
Jaxta is an online music credentials resource that was founded in 2015 with the aim of ensuring that music creators get the credit that they are due. The company now operates a massive database of music credits and has announced an API to expose this data for third-party use. | Continue reading
This article presents an introduction to and tutorial on apilayer's positionstack, a forward and reverse batch geocoding REST API. positionstack has more than two billion addresses worldwide in its database. And, its service scales to manage more than one billion geocode API look … | Continue reading
At the ARC Advisory Group’s Annual Industry Forum, the Eclipse Foundation announced the launch of the Sparkplug Working Group, which is driving the evolution and broad adoption of the Eclipse Sparkplug specification that enables the creation of open, interoperable, Industrial IoT … | Continue reading
Yelp recently announced that it will open source its fuzz-lightyear testing framework. Fuzz-lightyear specifically identifies Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities which present some of the most difficult vulnerabilities for enterprises to systematically defend … | Continue reading
After a lower court ruled that HiQ was within its rights to circumvent LinkedIn’s API program by “scraping" LinkedIn’s Web pages, a US Court of Appeals upheld the ruling and paved the way for irreparable harm to the API economy. What this means for the future of the API economy r … | Continue reading
There's a digital revolution going on in the banking sector, and APIs are paving the way for developers to get in on the action. In this article, we give details about the ten most popular Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, from the ProgrammableWeb Banking category. | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Security, Climate, and Artificial Intelligence. Highlights include an API for validating data for AI applications, and an API that uses AI for music creation and composition. Here's a rundown of th … | Continue reading
Union Pacific, a freight-hauling railroad franchise, has announced the release of several new APIs that will provide shipping partners with information on inbound and outbound rail shipments. These new APIs serve to increase visibility for customers and also improve automative c … | Continue reading
In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Dec 5, 2019, Oddball.io CTO Rob Wilkinson breaks down the two most important phases of launching successful APIs for the federal government and covering the key co … | Continue reading
0xcert, provider of the 0xcert Framework for building decentralized applications, has announced the release of an API that is designed specifically to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technologies. The new API will help users issue and manage non-fungible tokens on the Ethe … | Continue reading
Google announced the complete sunset of accelerated budget delivery. Last October, Google sunsetted its use with search campaigns, shopping campaigns, and shared budgets. Now, Google is beginning to sunset its use with other campaign types. Such apps include Display, App, video c … | Continue reading
French fintech startup Bankin’ has announced a new API that expands its consumer and business financial offerings to include payment processing. The new Bridge Pay API uses bank transfers to process payments and is being utilized by 12 major French banks. | Continue reading
Google has announced the upcoming shutdown of Google App Maker. Google App Maker is a low-code, G Suite development tool that allows businesses to fill gaps in their business workflows and operations. Google has cited "low usage" as the primary reason for shutting down the tool. | Continue reading
ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews APImetrics CEO and co-founder David O'Neill and gets a demo of the company's newly launched service called API.Expert. API.Expert continuously monitors and ranks the performance of common APIs used to develop applicatio … | Continue reading
AccountantsWorld is a provider of cloud solutions for accounting and payroll, including Payroll Relief, a payroll processing tool that the company designed specifically for professional accountants and payroll service providers. AccountantsWorld has announced a new Open API. | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Safety, Payments, and Location. Highlights include an API from IronCore for managing enterpise privacy, and an API for tracking injuries reported to OSHA. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Safety, Payments, and Location. Highlights include an API from IronCore for managing enterpise privacy, and an API for tracking injuries reported to OSHA. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
PIKA Technologies, a communications OEM, recently introduced the HMP+X2 SDK. HMP+X2 is a network API for PIKA's Host Media Processing (HMP) SDK. Once integrated with HMP+X2, third party developers can enhance their telephony applications and systems with PIKA functionality. | Continue reading