Messaging service Kik launched a cryptocurrency called Kin through a near-$100 million initial coin offering (ICO) last September, and now its Kin Ecosystem Foundation will give as many as 25 developers up to $3 million in Kin to bolster the cryptocurrency's ecosystem as part of … | Continue reading
GitHub Enterprise 2.14 is now available, and it includes a number of new tools for developers including unified search, Checks API (public beta), multiple issue templates, and several tools for easier Administration. The Checks API is only available for use with GitHub Apps. | Continue reading
Ding, a leader in mobile top-up, recently introduced its DingConnect API. The API allows third party apps and websites to offer top-up services to their customers and users. As prepaid phones approaches the 4 billion mark, Ding believes top-up services complements a host of web a … | Continue reading
Twenty APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Banking, Spam, and Cryptocurrency. Also new to the directory are SDKs for MapQuest mapping services. Highlights include the Plino API for spam filtering. Here's a rundown of the latest additions | Continue reading
The Lenderlink API system is now freely available to second charge mortgage packagers. Lenderlink aims to be a single platform to connect mortgage packagers to lenders. The Lenderlink API could do away with the disjointed single API per lender integrations that currently exist in … | Continue reading
A recent issue has brought to light the lack of customer service provided by Google Cloud Platform. Google has promised to improve yet the same issues appear to be commonplace. Anyone looking for a platform upon which to run production products has a serious reason to pause when … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Telephony, Verification, and Artificial Intelligence. Featured today is a 'forecast-as-a-service' API and an API that converts almost any file to PDF. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
As various services like Facebook deal with competitors by packing more functionality into their apps, those apps are increasingly experiencing usability issues. In the old days of the API economy, outside developers could leverage a service's APIs to build something better. But … | Continue reading
Relying upon third-party public APIs to do business has always been a risky business. Historically, some APIs have changed or disappeared altogether. But now, the API economy has entered a phase where relying on such APIs (or even publishing them) could be perilous. Maybe it's ti … | Continue reading
Twitter has been planning to end certain legacy, live APIs for quite some time. After delaying the move a couple of times, Twitter appears to be officially ending some live and streaming APIs next month. This leaves certain apps, like Twitterrific, with no capacity to continue of … | Continue reading
Companies that rely upon third-party public APIs to do business have always been at risk. But more and more APIs have closed leading to a growing distrust of API publishers by API consumers. Some of the promises of the API economy are no longer and the API economy as we once knew … | Continue reading
Android P is closer to a reality. Google introduced the third beta for Android P. Because it is nearly final, there are no new APIs or features. Rather, this beta round focuses on bug fixes, stability, and moving to the latest security features. The final version will arrive this … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Banking, Blockchain, Email, Games, and Insurance. Featured today is an API for retrieving game data about Clash Royale and an API for Contentjet CMS. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
This post will introduce you to the Synthetic Monitoring concept, which can make you feel more confident about your production system because you find errors quicker. It focuses on improving your Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), and gathering valuable metrics on how your whole syste … | Continue reading
Amazon has introduced a Python version of its SDK for Alexa Skills Kit in beta. The Python SDK adds to the Java and Node.js versions which are now generally available. Through the SDK, Python developers can handle requests, build responses, manage attributes, and make Alexa API c … | Continue reading
Security researchers have discovered a secret API in Microsoft Office 365 that gives investigators access to detailed information about activities that take place within Office 365. It makes available information about attachment, read and search activities, along with a variety … | Continue reading
While the furor around Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal have died down, the world's largest social network continues to make changes to its APIs "to better protect people’s information". Today, it announced that a number of its APIs will only be accessible to apps that hav … | Continue reading
When Google opened its Tensor Flow machine learning (ML) tech, it also unleashed a tidal wave of possibilities, potentially triggering a tipping point as businesses begin to understand what ML can do for them. But for many ML remains an enigma. This tutorial is for those of us wh … | Continue reading
The banking sector has seen a great many new APIs in the last few years. With so many new APIs made available came an equal number of developer portals. Which ones have done the best job of presenting their APIs and what commonalities can you learn from when implementing your own … | Continue reading
Eighteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Insurance, Calendars, and Search. Highlights include the Google Search Indexing API and the BabbleLabs Clear Cloud API for speech and audio enhancement. Here's a rundown of the latest additions … | Continue reading
Recent research uncovered that Microsoft's Cognitive Services Face API is plagued with a gender and racial bias common across the AI and machine learning technologies. With three tweaks to its Face API, Microsoft has greatly improved accuracy to detect gender across skin tones. | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Data Mining, and Location. Highlights include an API that enables developers to easily build scalable web scrapers, and an API for adding subtitles to video. Here's a rundown of the la … | Continue reading
CoverWallet labels itself an Insurtech as a Service provider. Its latest product offering, the CoverWallet API, gives third party apps and services access to the three key aspects of the small business insurance lifecycle: Areas include insurance quotes, estimates, and management … | Continue reading
Estated offers an API solution that provides nationwide coverage of U.S. residential property data. This article walks you through an introduction to Estated's API. The tutorial will run through the steps of signing up, making sense of the documentation, and also cover making req … | Continue reading
Google has announced the launch of a new Indexing API that publishers can use to notify Google when job posting pages on their sites have been updated. According to Google, the use of the API "allows Google to schedule job postings for a fresh crawl, which can lead to higher qual … | Continue reading
Facebook has added Codeless App Events to the latest version of the Facebook SDK. The new feature allows app owners to track interactions between app users with certain elements within an app (e.g. buttons, images, etc.). Codeless App Events is implemented through a visual tool t … | Continue reading
Last year, Google announced that Android app developers would need to target recent APIs starting mid-2018. That time has come and Google has not changed its tone. Facebook has indicated that its main app will target API level 26, Android Oreo 8. Other Facebook apps should follow … | Continue reading
MuleSoft founder Ross Mason has a bit of a reality check for anyone willing to listen. It has to do with how the majority of today's artificial intelligence can only do about half of what it should be doing. According to Mason, it needs to be more of a two way street and for that … | Continue reading
Algorithmic trading continues to gain popularity as alternative data becomes more accessible and new markets are developing. API trading can enhance efficiency and offer more flexibility to traders. This article introduces you to the FXCM API, developed with algorithmic trading i … | Continue reading
Google is promoting the fact that beginning in Android P, developers have access to a BiometricPrompt API that allows them to integrate biometric authentication into their apps. The BiometricPrompt API only exposes strong biometric modalities, which are those that are less easil … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to our directory in categories including DevOps and Open Data. Highlights include an API that provides air quality data with location comparison functions, an API for refugee demographics, and an API for grading untrusted code. Here's a look at what' … | Continue reading
Newman by Postman is an open source tool that can be used to run and test Postman collections directly from the command line. Among the best ways to use this CLI tool are running Newman with a local JSON file, running Newman with the latest collection URL, and integrating with a … | Continue reading
Following its acquisition this week of Smyte, a “trust and safety as a service” company, Twitter has reportedly shuttered Smyte's API with little warning to Smyte customers, which include well-known companies such as GoFundMe, Indiegogo, Zendesk, TaskRabbit and popular package m … | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Recommendations, Location, and Astronomy. Highlights include the new Snapchat SnapKit SDKs, Monique.io key-value storage API, and an API for filtering out profanity. Here's a rundown of the latest a … | Continue reading
The 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament is currently underway, and millions of football (soccer) fans are closely following the matches. This post highlights APIs that provide FIFA World Cup data such as live scores, matches for a given country, current tournament standings, and sched … | Continue reading
YNAB, a budgeting app that stands for You Need a Budget, this week announced the launch of an API that will allow third-party developers to build their own apps that incorporate functionality and data from YNAB. To help developers, YNAB has published API documentation and launch … | Continue reading
GitHub Unity 1.0, GitHub's editor extension for Unity, is now available for download. GitHub originally announced an alpha version of the project in March 2017, and a beta version earlier in 2018. Now, just in time for the annual Unity dev conference, GitHub has made the editor e … | Continue reading
This week, 500px cryptically announced the 500px API would no longer be available for free. The announcement hints that the API will continue to be available for a price, but no pricing tiers or models have been published. The announcement was made via Hacker News and developers … | Continue reading
Google has added a new AR API, the WebXR Hit Test API, to Chrome Canary, the version of Chrome where it tests bleeding edge, experimental functionality. The API is designed to "[help] immersive web code place objects in the real world" and provides a single API that performs a r … | Continue reading
Amazon announced the launch of private endpoints for its Amazon API Gateway. Although API Gateway has greatly expanded over the years, and has enabled developers to build public APIs for almost any backend, private endpoints have remained unavailable and often requested by develo … | Continue reading
Google last week announced that developers using its App Engine serverless cloud computing platform can now deploy Node.js 8 applications. Node.js is a popular JavaScript runtime built on Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js developers can deploy a basic app in less than … | Continue reading
Seventeen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Banking, Cryptocurrency and Mapping. Featured are APIs from FollowAnalytics for mobile app engagement services, and APIs from PelicanPay for compliant banking. Here's a rundown of the latest a … | Continue reading
Violet this week announced what it says is a "unified API for anything on the internet." The idea is to make it easy for people to buy whatever they want, no matter where they see it on the web, without requiring them to backtrack or hop through ecommerce sites across the interne … | Continue reading
As many organizations still use legacy systems in tandem with more modern solutions, APIs serve as a connection between the two. There are two types of API companies experiencing success—those with vertical and horizontal platforms—each offering a different level of connectivity … | Continue reading
Since the Cambridge Analytica debacle, Facebook has faced pressure to improve its security practices. In response, Facebook cut the functionality of its Graph API and the Instagram API. Now, one developer has petitioned Facebook to go even further in making the Instagram API more … | Continue reading
Snapchat launched its developer platform. Named Snap Kit, Snapchat has finally reached out to the developer community with a series of API-based tools that allow developers to integrate Snapchat features within third party apps. Creative Kit, Login Kit, Bitmoji Kit, and Story Kit … | Continue reading
If you were existing anywhere but under a rock for the last few weeks, then you were probably subjected to a gauntlet of GDPR notifications from the websites that you frequent, including ProgrammableWeb. They may not have even mentioned GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulat … | Continue reading
Personal Remedies has set a goal of combatting chronic illnesses through diet. It is empowering a community of self-healers through its AI-based knowledge base that finds food and nutrient based remedies for certain illnesses. Now, the "choose this" for "this disease" is accessib … | Continue reading