Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Messaging, Intelligence, and Accounting. Featured is an API for self-checkout at retail stores and an API for troubleshooting User Experience issues. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Hasuraa GraphQL-as-a-Service company, launched its open source GraphQL Engine which allows developers to migrate Postgres-based applications to GraphQL without having to write any backend code. The Hasura GraphQL engine can also be used to quickly build scalable GraphQL Applicati … | Continue reading
Seventeen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Insurance, Sentiment, and Mapping. Highlights include MapAnythings route optimization APIs and CoinMarketCap Professional API for retrieving cryptocurrency data. Here's a rundown of the latest … | Continue reading
Travel marketplace TravelgateX has launched HotelX, a hotel accommodation aggregation and booking API. Using the API, third-party applications can allow their users to search for available hotel accommodations, obtain price quotes and reservation terms, and complete and manage b … | Continue reading
Although Twitter delayed the deprecation of its Streaming API a few times, the time has finally come. Next week, Twitter will deprecate Site Streams, User Streams, and legacy Direct Message endpoints. This move leaves Twitter clients like Twitterrific and Tweetbot with gaps in th … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Salesforce.com disclosed that a potential security issue with one of its APIs has been corrected. The issue impacted a subset of Salesforce.com Marketing Cloud customers that used Email Studio and Predictive Intelligence and no malicious activity related to the … | Continue reading
Cloud communications provider MessageBird today launched Programmable Conversations, a single API that allows developers to integrate with a number of popular communication platforms. The platfroms supported in today's launch are SMS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegra … | Continue reading
Textmunication first introduced its automated messaging platform last year. Now, the company has introduced a suite of new APIs that evolves the company into a complete CPaaS provider. With a continued focus on health clubs, Textmunication continues to add communication features … | Continue reading
Google has released the final, public version of Android P. The latest operating system will henceforth be known as Android 9 Pie (following Android 8 Oreo). The new platform gains APIs galore and Google wants developers to get to work optimizing their apps with the latest tools. | Continue reading
Tunity today announced the release of the Tunity SDK for Audio which allows for the implementation of white-labeled versions of its TV audio streaming technology. Tunity's streaming tech enables a business' customers the ability to hear live audio from muted televisions on their … | Continue reading
Magic Software today released the latest version of its application development platform, Magic xpa 4.0, which features an Angular-based web application framework. Angular is an open-source JavaScript framework originally developed by Google and typically used to create single-pa … | Continue reading
Less than a year after Cloudflare launched a beta version of its video platform, Cloudflare has now made Stream generally available. The Stream video platform allows developers to integrate video without giving up control to third party video providers, or having to invest in vid … | Continue reading
MapAnything describes itself as a Location of Things company. Recently, the company introduced a suite of APIs that provide programmatic access to its routing and optimization engines. The company is specifically focused on fleets and routing B2B companies, and plans to introduce … | Continue reading
Upon seeing the headline to this article, API experts will likely scratch their heads wondering why the journal of the API economy (ProgrammableWeb) would indirectly suggest that REST and Swagger are comparable to the point that an article about their differences is warranted. | Continue reading
Nineteen APIs have been added to ProgrammableWeb in categories including Credit Cards, Messaging, and Gambling. Highlights include an API for issuing physical and virtual Stripe payment cards, and the Alexa Customer Profile API for retrieving Alexa customer contact information. | Continue reading
Which API providers do the best job of giving their developer community the tools needed to quickly get up and running with their APIs? In this analysis of our directory, we show how our data model allows for us to query our database and find out which providers offer the most SD … | Continue reading
CoinMarketCap has launched a professional version of its cryptocurrency market data API. The company's original public API is included as the free tier of the Professional API. The API includes endpoint categories across a spectrum of market data including exchange, currency, and … | Continue reading
Twilio has announced the Twilio API for WhatsApp which allows developers to integrate with applications nearly every messaging channel via one Twilio Messaging API. Among the messaging channels the API supports are SMS, MMS, Facebook Messenger, RCS, LINE and the newly added API f … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Games, Analytics, and Media. Highlights include an API for Amazon GameOn Admin Console, Bikewise API for bike incident data, and the Google Page Lifecycle API. Here's a rundown of the latest addi … | Continue reading
Square today announced the Square Reader SDK, a toolkit that will let Android and iOS developers design and deploy their own checkout experience for both sellers and buyers. The SDK makes it possible to run a custom UX on Square's hardware, opening up new possibilites for retail. | Continue reading
Last year, Facebook announced that it would launch a set of business-centric tools around WhatsApp. The company has also long stated that it would eventually monetize its various messaging platforms. Facebook has taken a step towards both goals with the introduction of the WhatsA … | Continue reading
Facebook has updated an API used by third-party applications to that allowed for cross-posting. The change breaks this functionality and one of the biggest impacts was felt by Twitter. Twitter users will no longer be able to create a Tweet and share it easily to their Facebook pa … | Continue reading
Airbnb has announced a number of updates related to its API. For developers of software that allows Airbnb hosts to create and manage their Airbnb listings, there is a new feature that makes it easier to merge existing listings and sync settings, as well as a new dashboard and t … | Continue reading
Stripe announced a new Issuing API and Partner Program. Stripe’s new API provides infrastructure for issuing physical and virtual cards via a single API call. The new partner program aims to provide members with documentation and best practices, along with an avenue for promoting … | Continue reading
Which programming language is the most popular with developers? In the past we’ve looked to our directories to provide some insight into which language is most in demand. The recent growth of our SDK and Sample Source Code directories gives us an opportunity to take a fresh look … | Continue reading
Google joined Apple with a ban of on-device cryptocurrency mining apps from Google Play. Apple made its decision in June of this year. Both companies will continue to allow remote mining. As cryptocrime continues to accelerate, and mining is resource intensive, the decisions were … | Continue reading
Postman teams and collaboration features are now available to user of the free Postman app. These features were previously only available via Postman paid plans. The Postman 6.2 release also includes Sessions, a new feature that allows teams to set variables that are session-spec … | Continue reading
With the explosion of cryptocurrency in recent years, software services are needed to help with the plethora of currencies, their pricing and exchange rates. With the coinlayer real time cryptocurrency API, you can keep up with more than 386 cryptocurrencies collected from more t … | Continue reading
Microsoft has added waypoint optimization to the Bing Maps Routing API, which allows developers to create routes between driving locations. The API is ideal for delivery and transportation businesses, and the route optimization functionality is intended to address the traveling … | Continue reading
Haven Life recently announced API access to its term life insurance buying process. The API provides companies with an interest in term life insurance (wellness sites, insurance lead generators, etc.) the ability to quote and sell insurance without the user leaving their site or … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Blockchain, Fantasy Sports, and Education. Highlights include an API that automatically detects plagiarism in text, and an API for enabling voice commands to Alexa connected devices. Here's a look … | Continue reading
RevenueCat is live with its SDK approach to in-app subscriptions across platforms. After a half-year beta, RevenueCat has launched v1.0 of its SDKs and API. The goal of the company is to handle all things in-app subscriptions so app developers don't need to rely on app store subs … | Continue reading
Chrome 68 is now a stable channel for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The latest Chrome 68 release includes new features and bug fixes. Earlier this year, Google announced its intention to provide a "Not secure" warning on HTTP sites. That warning has been implemented in Chrome 68. | Continue reading
OneGraph, a startup that aims to make popular SaaS APIs available through a single GraphQL endpoint, has launched. The company, which is part of YCombinator's Summer 2018 accelerator class, claims that its service can help developers "build robust integrations 10x to 100x faster … | Continue reading
Google made announcements this week that show its continued dedication to artificial intelligence. Cloud AutoML is now in beta with natural language and translation features. Dialogflow Enterprise received new features. Contact Center AI was introduced as Google's end to end call … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Cryptocurrency, DevOps, Marine and Shipping. Highlights include the open product database Dexi.io's API and Google Firebase Cloud Messaging XMPP API. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Amazon announced Amazon S3 Select support within the AWS JavaScript SDK. The new support allows apps to query a subset of data within Amazon S3 objects. This allows the API to return requests as an app receives the request instead of returning the entire API response as a single … | Continue reading
In an effort to protect its platform from spam and abuse, Twitter today unveiled a number of changes to the way developers will request and obtain access to Twitter's APIs. First, Twitter is requiring that all requests for access to the APIs go through a new developer account app … | Continue reading
In an effort to protect its platform from spam and abuse, Twitter today unveiled a number of changes to the way developers will request and obtain access to Twitter's APIs. First, Twitter is requiring that all requests for access to the APIs go through a new developer account app … | Continue reading
Four tech titans have announced the Data Transfer Project. The project is an open source, service-to-service, data portability platform. With the implementation of GDPR, and the increase need of consumers to retrieve and move their data, the Data Transfer Project looks to standar … | Continue reading
Business customers are now able to use the DirectID platform to access the UK’s Open Banking services with live connections to all the most significant UK banks including Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Group (Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland), Santander, The Royal Bank of Scotland, and … | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Artificial Intelligence, Food, and Advertising. Highlights include an API for integrating with the WallOfCoins bitcoin marketplace and the Reconess API for facial recognition abilities. Here's a loo … | Continue reading
Huawei is opening its AI platform by making a number of AI-based APIs available to developers. The company is making APIs available via its Enterprise Intelligence (EI) solution. Among the APIs available are a natural language API, voice recognition API, and visual recognition AP … | Continue reading
Hong Kong's government monetary authority recently released an Open API framework. Further, the government entity announced that it will launch an Open API next week. The framework includes a four phased approach that it expects Hong Kong banks to adopt in compliance with a roadm … | Continue reading
Because of its default settings, digital payments service Venmo exposes many of its users' transactions to the world through its public API. Using the API, researcher created a website, Public by Default, that visually details the implications of Venmo's public by default approa … | Continue reading
Sixteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Games, Digital Asset Management, and Marine. Featured today are APIs for programmatic access to energy data provided by the U.S. Department of Energy. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Google has updated its Search Console Search Analytics API, which allows users to query their search traffic data, to support the retrieval of 25,000 rows of data per request, up from a previous limit of 5,000 rows per request. In addition, Google has added 16 months of data to t … | Continue reading
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Weather, and Blockchain. Featured today are APIs from the Walmart Open API Developer Portal for affiliates and the Zoom Rooms API for virtual meetings data. Here's a rundown of the l … | Continue reading