Apple plans to change its Push Notification Service next year and has warned developers that now is the time to migrate to the latest version. The current build of the service will no longer support the legacy binary protocol starting in November 2020. Here's what the new version … | Continue reading
Brie Bunge, Front-End Engineer at Airbnb told the audience that Airbnb has adopted TypeScript as its standard language for Web development. TypeScript provides a level of reliability and programming efficiency which is difficult to achieve when programming only with JavaScript. | Continue reading
Stripe introduced a CLI. The CLI should eliminate all the back and forth between terminal, code editor and dashboard that developers are accustomed to when developing and testing Stripe integrations. The CLI includes webhook and API log testing as well as API object creation and … | Continue reading
At the GraphQL Summit James Baxley, Engineering Manager of the Open-Source and Solutions Architecture Team at Apollo GraphQL announced new initiatives for CLI and Editor Tooling during an exclusive interview with ProgrammableWeb. These improvements are a result of ongoing end-use … | Continue reading
Habito launched an API that partners use to leverage Habito's remortgaging algorithms. Habito has the ability to search over 20,000 products for the best options available for borrowers looking to remortgage. With the API, partner companies can include this functionality in their … | Continue reading
If a developer wanted to create applications that are focused on pets, livestock, wildlife or other animals, they need look no farther than the Animal category on ProgrammableWeb for the best APIs. In this article we offer details about the most popular API choices from the Anima … | Continue reading
Seventeen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Payments, Security, and TV. Highlights include an API that returns data about the Breaking Bad TV show, and an API for Mattermost team messaging platform. Here's a rundown of the latest additi … | Continue reading
The CEO of Apollo GraphQL predicted the rise of Omni Channel API development in an interview with ProgrammableWeb during the GraphQL Summit 2019 in San Francisco CA. Schmidt pointed out that the trend in application development is to move toward interaction styles that are natura … | Continue reading
Facebook introduced v5.0 of both its Graph and Marketing APIs. Most of the changes were to the Marketing API. The Marketing API includes a brand new API: the Ad Volume API. The API will help advertisers understand the number of ads they are running, and help comply with upcoming … | Continue reading
During Day 1 of GraphQL Summit, Tanmai Gopal, CEO, and co-founder of Hasura introduced his company’s declarative approach to creating GaphQL APIs during an exclusive interview with ProgammableWeb. Hasura is an open-source solution that provides complete support for the GraphQL sp … | Continue reading
At the GraphQL Summit, being held in San Francisco, Matt DeBergalis, Co-Founder, CTO at Apollo announced the release of the Apollo Client 3.0. Apollo Client is a development tool that reduces the labor involved in creating client-side GUI applications that interact with server-si … | Continue reading
Misty Robotics introduced Misty II, a professional grade robot platform that is specifically designed for accessibility by the software development community. Many modern robot platforms are limited to roboticists, but the software-centric nature of Misty II looks to flip this mo … | Continue reading
Facebook’s newly released update to the Messenger Platform includes new functionality, improvements to existing tools, while also deprecated legacy endpoints. Changes to the platform impact Click-to-Messenger Ads and provide new tools to encourage user engagement. | Continue reading
Vonage, a provider of cloud communication services, has announced a new API that is designed to provide developers with the tool necessary for creating and managing conversations across various messaging channels in real-time. The Conversation API is the latest addition to the Vo … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Cryptocurrency, Security, and Banking. Highlights include an API from Humana for managing healthcare data plus Mercury banking API aimed at startups. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Western Union continued to bolster its API portfolio with new transfer and payments APIs. The APIs provide access to the front-ends currently offered through Western Union's application network. Specific API suites in this new announcement include Money Transfer APIs and Partner … | Continue reading
WSO2 has announced the release of API Manager 3.0, the latest iteration of the company’s open-source API management solution. With this update, WSO2 has added a native Kubernetes Operator, which it hopes will simplify application configuration in cloud-native environments. | Continue reading
Ghost recently introduced version 3 of its popular CMS platform. One of the key elements of the new launch is a fully independent method to manage subscriptions and memberships. In most CMS platforms, subscriptions are handled by integration with a third-party provider. Third-par … | Continue reading
Developers looking to create applications for music lovers may want to add specific features for song lyrics. The best way to do that, is with an Application Programming Interface (API) for lyrics. Here, we detail the top 7 APIs for Lyrics from ProgrammableWeb, based on user page … | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Auto, Cryptocurrency, and DevOps. Highlights include an API for adding intelligent chat bots to applications and an API for getting random cat facts. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Zenserp provides developers with search engine result page (SERP) data via APIs. The company claims that its APIs are designed to closely mimic human search behavior in an effort to provide the most useful data. Today Zenserp has announced a new image recognition API. | Continue reading
Terbine is working to index the world’s physical data being collected by the myriad IoT devices scattered across the globe. The company hopes that by aggregating this data and removing roadblocks to integration, smart city research and initiatives can be accelerated. | Continue reading
Firefox 70.0 is here and stable. Along with a host of bug fixes, and feature updates; Firefox 70 includes many API changes. Specifically, the DOM; Workers/service workers; Media, WebAudio, and WebRTC; and Canvas and WebGL APIs were all updated with bug fixes, changes, and new fea … | Continue reading
Rev.ai, a provider of speech recognition services and an accompanying API, has announced the release of a new real-time audio transcription product. This new functionality augments the existing Rev.ai API and allows users to generate transcripts or captions in real-time. | Continue reading
With the holiday season around the corner, ARTA, a logistics platform for shipping specialized items, is announcing the launch of the ARTA API, which will allow businesses to harness the power of ARTA's eCommerce tools that streamline complex logistics and bridge fragmented suppl … | Continue reading
Google today made a host of announcements that provide a good look at the future of Android. The company released three core sets of tools: a developer preview of Jetpack Compose; expanded APIs for Android Jetpack; and Android Studio 4 in Canary — which Google says completes the … | Continue reading
Guidebook, providers of a platform for building mobile applications, unveiled an open-source API. Guidebook's API lets users extract valuable data and content that can then be pushed to custom mobile apps. A range of features, such as group discussions, social feeds, and more can … | Continue reading
Sixteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including PDF, Payments, Agriculture, and Marketing. Highlights include an API that uses Artificial Intelligence to engage users, and the Alexa Get Metrics API. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Microsoft has introduced a bug bounty program for its ElectionGuard SDK. ElectionGuard is an open source SDK that aims to make voting systems more secure. Microsoft introduced the SDK earlier this year, and has added the bounty program as another element of its Defending Democrac … | Continue reading
In the connected P&C insurance ecosystem, a property data API has become a critical enabler for businesses committed to staying ahead of the competition by modernizing workflows and offering innovative customer-centric services that have a direct positive impact on the bottom lin … | Continue reading
GraphQL APIs are most definitely not RESTful APIs. They bear some resemblances to RESTful APIs in that they rely on HTTP for making API calls. Like many RESTful APIs, they even use JSON for payload formatting. But, their architectural style is most definitely not RESTful. | Continue reading
There are many reasons to scrape the web including identifying breaking news, aggregating content, data collection for machine learning, and more. This article presents an introduction and tutorial to scarepstack, a powerful, real-time web scraping API service used by more than 2 … | Continue reading
Everybody loves a holiday, and there are hundreds of them around the world every day. Developers looking to create or enhance applications with holiday information can look to ProgrammableWeb for the best APIs to keep their calendars in check. Here, we highlight the eight most po … | Continue reading
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Authentication, Security, and WebRTC. Highlights include an API for automated, AI based real estate appraisals and an API for verifying phone numbers. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
This article looks at some potential use cases of different objects presented in the documentation for the TomTom Maps SDK for Web. We’ll go through uses of classes GeolocateControl, Evented, and IncidentMarker, and how these might be helpful to be aware of as you start interacti … | Continue reading
BCD Travel recently introduced its SolutionSource Developer Hub. The developer hub arms developers with access to five APIs and data extracts that enable clients to build custom travel solutions for their company and pull/analyze their own company travel data. Those interested ca … | Continue reading
Instagram has announced an upcoming feature that will provide users with a simple way to manage which third-party applications have access to their personal data. The new in-app feature is expected to roll-out over the next six months and will increase visibility into how user da … | Continue reading
Spire is a company that operates with the stated goal of “collecting data from space to solve problems on Earth.” The company does this by using satellites to identify and track global resources and weather systems. Spire has recently announced the release of the Spire Aviation … | Continue reading
eMoney Advisor, a financial planning software company that provides technology aimed at empowering financial advisors, has announced a new API-centric solution called eMoney Access. This new service provides APIs that support financial planning, client fact data collection, and … | Continue reading
Qeexo recently announced its AutoML platform. Qeexo AutoML brings machine learning to edge devices. Traditionally, machine learning has not been possible on edge devices because of limitations on compute power and memory size. Qeexo has done it with supported devices currently av … | Continue reading
MolecularMatch, a clinical informatics company providing Precision Medicine software solutions for oncology, announced the release of MMPower v4, the latest update to its Clinical Decision Support platform. This new release adds expanded therapeutic guidance and a new Software De … | Continue reading
Eighteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Cryptocurrency, Verification, and Data Mining. Highlights include several cryptocurrency APIs and updates for the BuddyPress API for its social networking platform. Here's a rundown of the late … | Continue reading
Instagram's legacy API platform will deprecate on March 2, 2020. The features which Facebook will keep alive will be accessed through the Facebook Graph API. With the many privacy concerns Facebook has faced in the past few years, privacy is a major concern of the transition. | Continue reading
Amazon recently announced three new tools in the Alexa toolbox. A Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Evaluation Tool, Utterance Conflict Detection, and a new Get Metrics API improve Alexa developers' ability to reduce unintended skill conflicts, and track skills use and perform … | Continue reading
Okta recently announced DynamicScale, an authentication solution built to perform for the most highly-trafficked apps and websites across the Internet. DyanmicScale can perform up to 500,000 authentications per minute, allowing it to handle enterprise traffic and unexpected spike … | Continue reading
Air Travel is more commonplace than ever before, but it still tends to be a tedious chore for most people. New technology is helping the industry become more efficient and more affordable. Driving this transformation are apps created by developers using APIs. Here we examine top … | Continue reading
These days, TV viewers have endless channels, networks, streaming platforms, cable platforms, and even endless devices to choose how, where, and when to watch their favorite TV shows. Developers can help viewers out by utilizing these top TV APIs to create applications to reign i … | Continue reading
Sixteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Customer Service, Telephony, and Cryptocurrency. Highlights include an API for copy editing written text and an API for finding Dive site information. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading