Twenty APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Internet of Things, Religion and Food. Highlights include new APIs from Google Cloud for enterprise catalog administration and from DocuSign for organization administration. Here's a rundown of t … | Continue reading
Mobile application users love maps, and developers have many API choices to add mapping features to their apps. If you want to add navigation, location based features, route planning or other mapping related features to apps, here's a list of popular APIs from ProgrammableWeb. | Continue reading
Google announced the release of Apigee Extensions, a feature within the company’s API management platform that aims to simplify the process of interacting with various Google Cloud Platform services. Previously developers were required to use the ServiceCallout function to acces … | Continue reading
CoinMarketCap has announced the creation of the Data Accountability & Transparency Alliance, which aims to promote transparency and accountability within the crypto space. The company hopes the alliance will result in greater empowerment for users looking to make informed cryptoc … | Continue reading
Developers and consumer protection groups are not pleased with Apple's removal of parental control and screen usage apps from the App Store. Some claim that Apple aims to limit competition with its Screen Time app and increase iPhone use. Apple claims its only protecting privacy … | Continue reading
This week at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, the company announced several updates, including changes to the Graph API, a new version of the Marketing API, and a new Facebook Developer Community Forum. Additionally, the company announced a new SDK to enable account verificati … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Transportation, Open Data, and Music. Highlights include an API for fleet GPS services and an API for querying data about requests to The Freedom Of Information Act. Here's a rundown of the lat … | Continue reading
As PSD2 starts to take shape in Europe, ING has published three new open banking APIs in France. The APIs include an Account Information API, Payment Initiation Services API, and Confirmation of Availability of Funds API. This is a starting point, and ING is working on additional … | Continue reading
Google has given developers some relief after some voiced concerns over Android's planned switch to scoped storage. Feedback about Android Q betas opened Google's eyes a bit and the company has put off the required change for an entire year to give app writers more time to adjust … | Continue reading
As Progressive Web Apps gained traction a few years ago, Microsoft released an open source tool called the PWABuilder. The tool was designed to help developers transform standard web apps into Progressive Web Apps. Microsoft recently released PWAbuilder 2.0 with new features and … | Continue reading
You are a non-technical founder with a great product idea. You've done the research, pitched your product and secured funding. Now you need an engineer who can help bring your vision into a functioning product. What traits are you going to look for in your first software engineer … | Continue reading
Global payments giant Visa is hosting a three-day hackathon beginning on May 3 that calls on developers to build apps that can help small businesses better prepare for and recover from natural disasters using APIs from the Visa Developer Platform, FEMA and business continuity pla … | Continue reading
APIs are some of the best ways to get access to data and to share files—large and small—back and forth between users. But are they the only option out there for businesses to utilize? Depending on what your company does—and what it needs its data for—there are other options inste … | Continue reading
While brick-and-mortar shopping is not dead, it certainly isn't surviving without it's eCommerce counterparts. Powering eCommerce technology are Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs. Here, we take a look at some notable eCommerce APIs that can be found in the ProgrammableW … | Continue reading
Seventeen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Data, Water, Patents, and Fitness. Highlights include an API for extracting pertinent information out of hand written receipts and invoices, and an API for restoring and maintaining business dat … | Continue reading
Snap Inc., developers of the popular mobile application Snapchat, recently announced the release of the Bitmoji for Games SDK. This new SDK will allow partners to easily incorporate Bitmoji animated characters directly into their games. | Continue reading
Google released an open source tool to ease problems associated with configuring client libraries and provisioning OAuth2 credentials. The Google Ads API Doctor is now available as version one. The first version specifically addresses the common invalid refresh token and permissi … | Continue reading
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including News Services, Blockchain, and Weather. Highlighted today is an API that returns precipitation and storm data, and an API for creating Apple Wallet passes. Here's a rundown of the latest additio … | Continue reading
Google has announced changes to the Google Drive and Google Picker APIs that will change the way that developers authenticate download requests. The authentication changes will affect all users that currently authorize Google Drive download requests via an access token in a query … | Continue reading
Sportradar has expanded its increasingly growing sports data intelligence API portfolio. The latest API, the Winter Sports API, offers data for over thirty winter sports competitions. The competitions include men's and women's events for nine winter sports. Sportradar now has ove … | Continue reading
Amazon has launched an App Submission API. Similar to Google's submission API for Google Play, Amazon's API allows app owners to programmatically update apps on its Appstore. With the goal of simplifying app updates across platforms, the Amazon API is similar to the API used with … | Continue reading
Facebook has announced that a new isInputPending API it created is included in Chrome 74, the latest version of Google's popular Chrome browser, as an origin trial. The social networking giant created the isInputPending API to address the problem of browser queueing time delays. | Continue reading
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of its Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) API. The offering is a suite of APIs built for security operations teams. The goal is to eliminate custom bridging between various security applications and enterprise s … | Continue reading
On Monday, Visa unveiled a suite of beta APIs, specifications and developer tools for a new payments platform called Visa Next that the company says "opens [the] door to digital-first payment experiences." Using the beta APIs, Visa issuers and processors will be able to add cards … | Continue reading
DocuSign recently took another step in its Agreement Cloud Vision with its recent release of the Organization Admin API. The second API release in a matter of weeks, the Organization Admin API allows users to easily manage all DocuSign accounts and users through a single API. | Continue reading
The video game industry is expected to top $150 billion this year. Developers wishing to enhance gaming experiences can find hundreds of games APIs in ProgrammableWeb's directory. Here is a list of notable video game and game related APIs that are popular with our readers and sta … | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Recreation, Events, and Documents. Highlights include an API for mountain bike trail information and an API for adding reverse geocoding and elevation data to applications. Here's a rundown of th … | Continue reading
The updated core tool for developing Android applications, Android Studio, is now available as a stable release. Android Studio 3.4 and Project Marble have been under development for six months and Google calls this a "milestone release" thanks to the rock solid foundation of key … | Continue reading
Seventeen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Customer Relationship Management, Music, and Transportation. Highlights include the Google Cloud Healthcare API and an API for space launch information. Here's a rundown of the latest addition … | Continue reading
In an effort to improve the pull request review experience for developers using "hackable" text editor Atom, which it developed and offers under an open-source license, GitHub has announced that Atom 1.37 beta will allow developers to review and resolve comments in an in-editor d … | Continue reading
Today StubHub announced the release of a handful of new APIs and an accompanying developer platform, with the expressed aim of becoming the “events and tickets industry operating system.” The new APIs handle everything from inventory management to market intelligence. | Continue reading
Google Private Catalog promises to give enterprise IT administrators more control over which apps are accessible to developers across the organization. The tools help businesses remain compliant and collaborative, while reducing failures and waste. Here are the details you need t … | Continue reading
Twitter today said it plans to adjust access to two of its APIs beginning later this year. The rate limits, which will impact the User Timeline API and Mentions Timeline API, are meant to give Twitter better visibility into how its APIs are being used by developers to support oth … | Continue reading
Looking to build a travel application? ProgrammableWeb provides over 550 APIs to enable developers to create and enhance applications for travel. Here we list the more popular APIs listed in the Travel category of the ProgrammableWeb directory, including Expedia, Concur, and Amad … | Continue reading
There are a wide range of music services on the internet that developers could tap into to create music applications, and there are hundreds of APIs available for developers to use for those applications. Here we highlight the most popular music APIs that are listed on Programmab … | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Blockchain, Video, Natural Language Processing, and SEO. Highlights include an API that returns Amazon marketplace data and an API for French language applications. Here's a rundown of the latest ad … | Continue reading
Payment options are not limited to cash, checks, or credit cards anymore. ECommerce and mobile tech have transformed the ways people buy goods and services in the past few years. Driving the new options are APIs. Here's a list of top APIs for Payments, according to traffic on Pro … | Continue reading
Edgybees recently announced its Augmented Reality Ground Underlying System (Argus). Argus is an API kit that allows users to overlay real time video footage with geospatial data, and other data points. The API kit is software only which makes it easily deployable and supported cr … | Continue reading
42Crunch recently introduced an end-to-end, cloud-based API security platform. The platform looks to displace the legacy approach to API security which requires administrators to deploy a number of disjointed tools. The platform includes holistic audits, scans, and protection to … | Continue reading
Scrapinghub has taken the next step in its web scraping and data extraction tools development. Its latest Developer Data Extraction API is an AI-driven data extraction API that eliminates the need to build custom spiders for each target site. The API extracts product data and art … | Continue reading
This week Google announced the release of Apigee Hybrid, a new deployment option for Apigee’s API management platform. This new service enables enterprises to host their runtime in a hybrid environment, with deployments both on-premises and in the public cloud. | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Optimization, Monetization, Hotels, and Identity. Highlights include an API for backcountry skiing data, and an API that removes the background from images. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Looker has introduced a number of new developer tools to extend both its use to the business community and the developer community. A new SDK and set of open source tools aim to support new Looker apps and use cases through third parties, and four new visualizations provide new b … | Continue reading
Until recently, Google's ML Kit machine learning functionality has focused on video and image processing. Now, Google has introduced two APIs that expand ML Kit into the language space. The Smart Reply API suggests responses within chat apps, and Language Identification identifie … | Continue reading
Google's Cloud Healthcare API is now available in beta. The API is meant to act as a bridge between on-site healthcare systems and applications hosted on Google Cloud. The goal of the API is to give hospitals and other healthcare facilities more analytical power over their data. | Continue reading
The ProgrammableWeb directory's Search category contains more than 2000 APIs for adding search technology and functions to websites and applications. Here we filter through popular user favorites and highlight those that developers may find useful for enhancing applications. | Continue reading
Seventeen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Banking, eCommerce and Jobs. Highlights include the Tradenity API for creating eCommerce applications, Taskware API for task management, and an API that retrieves lottery numbers. Here's a loo … | Continue reading
Python 2 is reaching end of life. To prepare, Google is adjusting its client libraries for the change. Starting with v 20.0.0 of the Google Ad Manager API, Python 2 will no longer be supported. Developers will need to upgrade to at least Python 3.6+. Google's support for Python 2 … | Continue reading