The ProgrammableWeb directory eclipsed the 22,000-API mark in June 2019 and this milestone gives us a chance to look at what the data can tell us about the API economy. The directory has seen new APIs added at a 30% increase over the previous four years signaling that the API eco … | Continue reading
The new v15.0 SDK has sped up the initiating scan jobs process and adds concurrent processing for various upload methods. The SDK is widely used to expedite adding an online document scanner component to document management applications running in popular Internet browsers. | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Blockchain, Auto, and Video. Highlights an API for getting data about the FARA act, an API for astonomy events as they relate to positions on Earth, and new eBay APIs. Here's a rundown of the lat … | Continue reading
For companies evaluating whether or not to switch insurance plans, disruption analysis is a vital process that has historically been time and resource intensive. Vericred launched the Disruption Analysis API to fix this problem. InsurTech companies leverage Vericred logic to stre … | Continue reading
ABIB, a Baharain bank, announced the first opening banking API marketplace in the Baharain market. The marketplace is an API portal where third party developers can publish their FinTech APIs and integrate with the ABIB ecosystem. The portal is the first step of the company's ope … | Continue reading
Google this week distributed the fifth beta of Android Q. According to Google, this build is "very close" to what developers and consumers alike will see in the release of Android Q in the near future. Google is urging developers to update their apps for Android Q sooner rather t … | Continue reading
If the number of APIs available in the Financial category of ProgrammableWeb is any indication, the FinTech industry has jumped all the way into the API Economy. There is a variety of subcategories, but the Financial category contains definitive API favorites from our members. He … | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Cryptocurrency, Automation, and Weather. Highlights include an API that provides menu data from thousands of restaurants and an API for whale sightings data. Here's a rundown of the latest additi … | Continue reading
Vungle recently announced the latest version of its advertising SDK. The Vungle SDK now features Cache Optimization to ensure that ads are available quicker than ever before. Further, the SDK supports the MREC ad format, which is a medium rectangle for in-app video advertisements … | Continue reading
If you integrate with an API and it performs poorly, it can degrade the quality of your service and possibly make your site unavailable to customers. It doesn't have to be this way. The following are three best practices for API integrations that can save you from getting hit wit … | Continue reading
Amazon released its AWS Cloud Development Kit last year as a preview. Now, the CDKs for TypeScript and Python are now generally available. The CDK allows administrators to manage their infrastructure using the same language and tools they use to build applications, a move towards … | Continue reading
When developing APIs, upfront planning can save a lot of unneeeded coding. A design-based approach to building APIs can save you and your API consumers additional development cycles. There are three key elements at the heart of a great API design process: the API schema, collabor … | Continue reading
At Google I/O 2019, the host company announced plans to release the Local Home SDK. This new solution, which was recently launched as a developer preview, aims to reduce latency and improve reliability by allowing smart home device providers to run actions locally rather than in … | Continue reading
Games media service RAWG opens its API for developers. RAWG is the largest games database with over 300,000 of games, 2M of screenshots, 400K of reviews and ratings, and now you can access all of it and much more via the API. | Continue reading
Microsoft has developed new API standards in an attempt to modernize its portfolio and respond to developer feedback. Microsoft published the first version of the standards and released its first set of SDKs for Azure Storage, Cosmos DB, Key Vault and Event Hubs that comply with … | Continue reading
vpnMentor‘s team of “hacktivist” security researchers recently announced the discovery of an exposed database connected to Orvibo Smart Home products. The vulnerable account information exposed in the database includes 2 billion logs detailing everything from usernames to precise … | Continue reading
NVIDIA has released the Clara Deploy SDK to give developers a platform for designing and deploying AI-enabled medical imaging pipelines. The SDK provides a framework for defining application workflows and enables the creation of optimized AI models for medical imaging used in hos … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Shipping, Identity, and Blockchain. Featured today is an API that identifies car make and model from a photograph, and an API that determines risk based on buyer reputation. Here's a rundown of t … | Continue reading
Primis hit the Israeli web video market with its video discovery unit launched in 2018. The company has now expanded the usefulness of its platform with new API capabilities. The API features allow publishers to track and engage with viewers based on events like clicks, impressio … | Continue reading
InstaReM has announced a new API-based platform that allows companies to deliver branded cards. The B2B platform allows third-party businesses to utilize InstaReM's ecosystem for payments and related issues. InstaReM ensures local compliance across geographies. | Continue reading
Rewards programs can increase brand loyalty, customer satisfaction, and company profits. In this article we highlight ten popular Rewards APIs that can be found in the ProgrammableWeb directory in which developers could tap into to reward application users and increase engagement … | Continue reading
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including DevOps, Politics, and Security. Highlights include the Checkly API for monitoring APIs and the Contrast Security API to help thwart cyber attacks on applications. Here's a rundown of the latest … | Continue reading
Atomize has released its open two-way API, making its property management systems accessible to integrations. According to the company the hotel industry has long suffered from market fragmentation because of outdated technology and poor APIs, which for many years have generated … | Continue reading
Adding location-aware services to applications is one of the best ways to increase user engagement. Developers looking to enhance apps in this way can check out the ProgrammableWeb directory for location APIs to fit their needs. Here we list the most popular APIs for from our Loc … | Continue reading
Google recently announced that the Google Ads API, which was officially launched back in March of 2019, has been reverted back to beta. The decision was made based on feedback from users who had concerns about response time when compared to the AdWords API that it was meant to re … | Continue reading
The United States Justice Department launched an online portal that provides users with information on lobbyists working on behalf of foreign governments. The portal includes a new API that allows developers to programmatically analyze the myriad data provided. | Continue reading
Despite a barrage of headlines that could kill most companies, Facebook operates with near absolute impunity. To dissatisfied users who want out, it brazenly dangles an offer to take all their data before quitting so it can be uploaded to another service. We tested the veracity o … | Continue reading
Before Facebook users consider an alternative social network, two things must be easily moved to that alternative; their friends and their data. Facebook's website advertises it will give you your data so it can be uploaded to another service. ProgrammableWeb puts that bold claim … | Continue reading
As government regulators and consumers grapple with the extraordinary control and commercialization that Facebook exerts over personal data, and the extent to which Facebook has abused that privilege, a bigger question looms; what hope exists, if any for the emergence of a legiti … | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Agriculture, Authentication, and Cycling. Featured today is an API that provides spam filtering options for applications and an API for determining the course of the sun. Here's a rundown of the … | Continue reading
Acquired.com has announced the release of a new API-powered payment solution that the company claims will allow businesses to pay partners in just a few seconds. Additionally, the solution will provide visibility into the status of the transfer. | Continue reading
It's a fact: scientists and researchers that work in physical science, Earth science, life science, computer science and any other scientific discipline have benefited from Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs. This article highlights the top Science APIs in the Programmab … | Continue reading
Eighteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Games, Government, and Background. Highlights include the RAWG vidoe game database API and TypingDNA API for authenticating users via typing biometrics. Here's a rundown of the latest additions … | Continue reading
GIPHY, the provider of a database and search engine for animated GIFs, has announced a new SDK that provides third-parties access to GIFs, stickers, and additional new content like GIPHY Emoji and Text. With this release, the company hopes to accelerate integration for third-par … | Continue reading
Tim Greisser, Software Engineer at Cypress.io presented the benefits of using GraphQL Nexus for taking a “code first” approach to GraphQL API development. GraphQL Nexus is a development library that allows GraphQL developers to do strong-type programming when creating a GraphQL A … | Continue reading
Imagine checking out at the grocery store once, and breaking that single transaction into multiple payments at scheduled intervals. Visa sites research that indicates this functionality is attractive to consumers and Visa is developing an API that will allow merchants to offer th … | Continue reading
Many APIs are developed to support the UI for a single application: they are not optimized for connecting multiple different applications, frequently without user interaction. Automation-centric APIs are designed to learn and improve, increasing business agility to stay competiti … | Continue reading
"APIs are first class-products at eBay," Gail Frederick, eBay Vice President of Developer Ecosystem, commented in a recent news story. In support of this statement, eBay this week announced numerous API enhancements and brand new APIs with the intent of empowering developers. | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Games, Open Data, Advertising, and DevOps. Highlights include the DoorBird API for integrating applications with a video door intercom service. Here's a rundown of the latest additions for develo … | Continue reading
During his presentation at GraphQL Conference 2019 in Berlin Germany, Stan Chollet (Lead at Tartiflette.io) announced after two years of work that the company has released Tartiflette for Python 3.6+. Tartiflette is an implementation of the GraphQL specification. | Continue reading
Facebook software engineer, Kewei Qu, presented 5 GraphQL deployment principles that the company follows during her talk "How to Move a Mountain? GraphQL Migration Best Practices," delivered recently at the GraphQL Conference 2019 in Berlin Germany. | Continue reading
In an effort to meet the needs of businesses that are serving customers across multiple digital channels, Adobe announced the launch of a headless commerce capability for its Commerce Cloud platform which provides core APIs that can be used to develop experiences for different di … | Continue reading
Orderful, a provider of SaaS solutions for enterprise Electronic Data Interchange, announced a new API platform for EDI that allows users to trade supply chain data globally. This solution is designed to allow companies to integrate once, rather than building custom integrations … | Continue reading
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Astronomy, Backup, Advertising, and Recognition. Highlighted are three new Payments APIs including the Openbucks cash alternative payment service API. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
PingOne for Customers hit the market in public preview roughly half a year ago. Already, Ping Identity is adding significant features to the identity as a service platform. To make the platform more secure and more streamlined for users, Ping Identity has added MFA, social login, … | Continue reading
Microsoft has released an update to its WebView2 SDK and announced broader access so that more developers can try it. WebView 2, a new WebView control that allows developers to host web content within native apps, was first unveiled at the Build 2019 conference in Seattle last mo … | Continue reading
Data and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) go hand-in-hand. Application developers connect to endless sorts of data repositories with APIs, and ProgrammableWeb is the source to discover the best ones for their applications. Here we check out the ten most popular Data APIs … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Testing, Chat and Security. Highlights include the Product Hunt API V2, now with GraphQL access, and the FlightsLogic API for airfare results from 900 airlines. Here's a rundown of the latest a … | Continue reading