Mux, a video technology company, has partnered with Maestro, an interactive live streaming platform, to provide creators with a one-stop-shop for everything that they need to build immersive and interactive video experiences. ProgrammableWeb spoke with Mux co-founder and CEO Jon … | Continue reading
While API-driven B2B eCommerce services encourage decoupling and separation of functionality, they also drive deeper connectivity and automation, granting greater flexibility and cost-savings. The benefits are so great that we're likely to see greater reliance on APIs in the futu … | Continue reading
The Internet would be a very lifeless place if it weren't for animations. Developers wanting to make their applications come alive with animations, or simply add data about animations to them, need to find the proper APIs. Here are eleven of the most popular Animation APIs from P … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Security, Animation, Automation, and Music. Highlights include an API for retrieving guitar chords, an API for eSignature services, and an API for security asset management. Here's a rundown of th … | Continue reading
Verizon has unveiled a new location technology called Hyper Precise Location (HPL) that the company claims takes data accuracy from meters to centimeters. The new service will be provided via an API as part of Verizon’s ThingSpace portal for IoT integrations. | Continue reading
BigDataCloud, an Australian API provider and geolocation specialist, has announced the release of a new client-side reverse geocoding API that utilizes IP geolocation as a fallback method. The new API blends privacy and accuracy in a holistic approach to geolocation retrieval. | Continue reading
Cloudflare announced the beta release of Workers Unbound, the company’s serverless platform for developers, in mid-2020 and is now moving the product into general availability. Alongside this announcement, Cloudflare has updated the Workers Unbound pricing model and added additi … | Continue reading
Ekata has announced a new Merchant Onboarding API that enables an automated onboarding workflow for payment service providers (PSPs), B2B lenders, and online marketplaces that are increasingly engaging with sole proprietors and “micro-merchants.” | Continue reading
Today at Oktane21, Okta’s annual developer conference, the company announced the new Okta Starter Developer Edition, a resource that is intended to help developers streamline integration with Okta authentication, authorization, and user management services at scale. | Continue reading
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Loans, Natural Language Processing, Pets and Mapping. Highlights include two location APIs from Woosmap and natural language processing APIs from NLP Cloud. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Catchpoint, a provider of end-user experience metrics, has been working on a new API that is designed to allow developers to perform webpage testing as a part of their CI/CD workflow. This new WebPageTest API is now ready for developers and has moved into general availability. | Continue reading
The Supreme Court of the United States has delivered a ruling on Oracle v. Google, an API copyrightability case that litigates Google’s use of Java SE APIs in its Android applications. The majority opinion, authored by Justice Breyer, finds that Google did not violate Oracle’s c … | Continue reading
Online marketplaces are the new normal. Multiple sellers can offer their goods in one centrally located place, and buyers can find desired products from multiple vendors and purchase them with one click. Developers on the hunt for marketplace APIs should check out this list of po … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Open Banking, eCommerce, and COVID-19. Highlights include the Amazon Selling Partner API and and API from Datachip that provides a person's COVID-19 vaccination status. Here's a rundown of the lat … | Continue reading
EVPassport is working to streamline electric vehicle charging by building out an API-powered app that removes roadblocks to charging station utilization. The app leverages API integrations to enable charging on myriad networks without leaving the app or fussing with creating mul … | Continue reading
New research shows that 96% of organizations use public or private APIs, but still have room for improvement when it comes to leveraging APIs to their full benefit. This is just one of the findings in MuleSoft’s 2021 Connectivity Benchmark Report based on a survey of CIOs and IT … | Continue reading
SONOC has announced new APIs that provide users more granular control over operations support systems and business support systems (OSS/BSS). SONOC is targeting Over-the-Top (OTT) players, Carriers and Service Providers and aims to simplify the process of rolling out new network … | Continue reading
Sabre, a provider of travel technology, has announced a new API-powered collection of capabilities that enable developers to build custom airfare shopping integrations. The new “Airline Storefront” joins Sabre’s existing shopping APIs and is designed to simplify comparison shopp … | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Travel, Education and Transportation. Highlights include an API for integrating applications with travel booking options and an API that monitors truck fleets and their drivers for safety and effic … | Continue reading
Cloudflare announced a set of new services that are intended to bolster application security by limiting API abuse. The new API Discovery and API Abuse Detection tools are designed to provide critical context for application security issues that are often handled through overly … | Continue reading
Subtitles are important for accessibility for hearing impaired persons, offer language help, improve comprehension, offer important metadata to improve SEO, and are also proven to improve audience engagement and overall watch times. Here are seven top Subtitles APIs from Programm … | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Healthcare, Financial and Biometrics. Highlights include an API for integrating fingerprint identity verification into web browser applications and APIs for Cerner HealtheIntent health population p … | Continue reading
LoginRadius, a provider of access management solutions, has announced a tool designed to help its customers understand their application’s identity management performance. The new LoginRadius Authentication API Analytics tool provides insight on request count, response code, and … | Continue reading
GitHub has partnered with the Python Package Index (PyPI), a third-party software repository for the Python programming language, to provide a new service aimed at protecting against leaked PyPI API tokens. This initiative starts immediately with GitHub hunting for vulnerabiliti … | Continue reading
Twilio has provided an update for developers on the status of the beta Video Recording Rules API, which will now move into general availability. The API helps developers handle call recording at a far more granular level than previously possible. Twilio has also added new code s … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Insurance, Products, Colors, and Natural Language Processing. Highlights include five APIs from Unicorn NLP that offer semantic analysis for online reviews. Here's a rundown of the latest addition … | Continue reading
For Zoom, 2020 was a rocket ship that blasted the company’s value well past the Kármán line and into rarefied air, with much of this success being built on the back of the company’s mobile and desktop applications. The company is now hoping to further expand its reach via a new … | Continue reading
Foursquare, a location data company best known for its City Guide, has relaunched its Places database and has released a new Places Enterprise API to accompany the update. These announcements are intended to bolster the company’s point-of-interest data offerings and expand data … | Continue reading
Every designer knows the importance of color when creating art, and the significance color can portray for graphics, visualizations, brands, websites, applications, food, drinks, or any tangible product. These top APIs for colors can help developers create applications with color … | Continue reading
Five APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Words, Streaming, and Human Resources. Highlights include an API that aggregates fitness and health data from dozens of applications, and an API that can automate image manipulation for identity do … | Continue reading
Facebook has added IGTV metrics to the Instagram Graph API. Developers who have already upgraded to the latest version of the API will immediately be able to access the new datasets. IGTV is a standalone application that Instagram developed to allow for more immersive long-form … | Continue reading
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the release of a new Wikimedia Enterprise API. This API, which will be available for a fee, is intended to solve technical problems for enterprise users while also helping to fund the work of maintaining free knowledge ecosystems. | Continue reading
In this article we interview Gregory De Jans, head of developer portal at TomTom, a provider of location technology services. He discusses the company's switch in product focus from B2C to B2B and how that required a reinvention of its marketing and engagement efforts to take aim … | Continue reading
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Biometrics, Customer Relationship Management, and Financial. Highlights include an API that determines how much Bitcoin a customized Tesla costs, and an API for sales funnel management. Here's a l … | Continue reading
The W3C has announced that the Web Applications Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the new Indexed Database API V 3.0. This latest iteration of the document was published on March 11th and is intended to supersede all previous versions. | Continue reading
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Sustainability, Human Resources, and Drugs. Highlights include an API for open banking, an API for generating fake testimonial data, and an API for adding users to a wait list. Here's a rundown of … | Continue reading
City officials worldwide are embracing digital transformation to make their urban areas smarter. And driving this smart city trend is data. Developers wishing to find cities data to build or enhance applications should check out this list of the 11 most popular Cities APIs from P … | Continue reading
MySize, Inc, the developer and creator of e-commerce measurement solutions, has announced the launch of its MySizeID E-Commerce Plugin SDK. The SDK enables e-commerce business owners to create a MySizeID plugin that will provide their shoppers with the right size for apparel. | Continue reading
With all the changes in technology in the last half century, a main form of communication remains relevant: the written or spoken word. Developers wishing to add word functions to applications should check out this list of the ten most popular Words APIs in the ProgrammableWeb AP … | Continue reading
Access Softek has recently released a new biometric authentication API that allows banks and credit unions to authenticate callers via mobile phone across myriad channels. This API announcement comes in tandem with new research supporting the demand for improved banking security … | Continue reading
Facebook has introduced Relay Hooks, an updated set of React APIs that the company believes are a more developer-friendly way to work with Relay. Relay Hooks APIs allow developers to leverage the Relay JavaScript framework for fetching GraphQL data in React applications. | Continue reading
In October of 2020, Google announced a public preview of its Cloud Healthcare Consent Management API and established a roadmap for developing this resource into a valuable asset for healthcare application developers and clinical researchers. This API has now transitioned to gene … | Continue reading
MuleSoft has released MuleSoft Composer for Salesforce, a no-code integration offering designed to enable line of business users and Salesforce administrators with the ability to integrate Salesforce with other apps and data while also automating the tasks that depend on those in … | Continue reading
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Prices, Documents, and Machine Learning. Highlights include an API for optimizing prices based on a user's location or other criteria, and an API for compiling machine learning models. Here's a look … | Continue reading
A cybersecurity expert has discovered a code-snippet in Twitch’s mobile application that seems to denote API updates that would allow the platform to score users for brand safety concerns regarding advertising. This action would fall in line with the practices of other social me … | Continue reading
Simbo.ai, a provider of medical record documentation products, has announced a new API that will allow healthcare providers to create voice-based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) programmatically. The new SimboAlpha API leverages automated speech recognition to power its feature … | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Internet of Things, Insurance, and Advertising. Highlights include an API for integrating with job board software and an API for point-in-time triggered alerts. Here's a rundown of the latest additi … | Continue reading