Arboric, an API manager specifically dedicated to GraphQL, was announced this week. Arboric is open source and free to use. It is currently available in its 0.1 version, which is considered the proof of concept version. By the next version, the team hopes that the core will be pr … | Continue reading
Pantone, a color management company that is best known for the Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space that is used by various industries to ensure accurate colors across systems, has announced a new API for third-party software integration. | Continue reading
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Insurance, 3D, Feedback, and Travel. Highlights include language data APIs from Linguatools, an API for life insurance quotes, and an API for rendering chart images. Here's a rundown of the lat … | Continue reading
Ballerina, the open-source project from WSO2 has reached 1.0 and now provides cloud-native middleware as a programming language. The language, based on creating and consuming APIs for app development aims to simplify how developers will build and deploy cloud-native distributed a … | Continue reading
Kong announced a new open source project: Kuma. Kuma is a control plane for a service mesh. It is built on top of the open-source Envoy proxy. The goal of Kuma is to move beyond the limitations associated with first-generation service mesh technology. It is platform agnostic and … | Continue reading
Apple has made it abundantly clear that it takes customer privacy seriously. Though the company may not always live up to its own high standards, it still often finds itself on the privacy soapbox. Now, Apple has baked a change into iOS 13 that caught several messaging apps by su … | Continue reading
Operating a travel website or application can be a daunting task. Savvy travelers want everything from hotel reviews to booking at their fingertips. Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, can help developers create the best apps to help them out. Here are ProgrammableWeb's … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Safety. Highlights include an API that determines ideal prices via an algorithm, and an API for physical locks for car sharing services. Have a loo … | Continue reading
ABB Group, a company that provides power and automation products, systems, and services, has announced the availability of a new API platform for smart home automation. The company took a major step forward in 2017 with the release of the Smarter Home Developer Program. | Continue reading
SWIFT, a financial messaging services provider that aims to be a leader in global banking standardization, has announced a new API standard for pre-authorization of funds. This new standard, which aims to simplify payment authorization, is the second standard proposed by the com … | Continue reading
No single standard exists in the world of extensions. Accordingly, many browser makers have worked to make their extension APIs compatible with each other for ease on developers. However, Google's Manifest v3 will not be backwards compatible and Mozilla isn't on board with all of … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Internet of Things, Identity, and Machine Learning. Highlights include an API for IBM Watson enabled branded assistants and an API for trivia from the Jeopardy TV show. Here's a rundown of the … | Continue reading
MTN has expanded developer access to its Mobile Money API. The API allows developers to build applications and services that automate the collection of bills, fees, and taxes; as well as the distribution of collected fees. Prior to the Ghana release, MTN had opened the API to dev … | Continue reading
Amazon continues to ease skill development and integration with added support for Express.js and Jinja templates. The Node.js ASK SDK now supports Express.js. The Python ASK SDK now supports Jinja templates. Additionally, Python ASK SDK support for Django and Flask is now general … | Continue reading
Getting fit isn't just about jogging and cutting out cookies anymore. Fitness in the twenty-first century is driven by mobile technology, big data, and Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs. and In this article we detail the ten top fitness APIs based on ProgrammableWeb pag … | Continue reading
Developers love open source software. It stokes creativity, collaboration, and innovation, and is free, or at least less expensive, than commercial software. Luckily ProgrammableWeb provides hundreds of APIs in the Open Source category. Here we highlight the 12 most popular Open … | Continue reading
Nineteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Internet of Things, Transportation, Storage, and Sales. Highlights include rideOS ride hailing APIs and DarkSearch API for the dark web search engine. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Google recently announced an expansion to its GPSRP program (a bug bounty program for Google Play apps). Additionally, the company introduced the new Developer Data Protection Reward Program (DDPRP) to help uncover and stop data abuse across Android apps, OAuth projects, and Chro … | Continue reading
Imperva, a company that provides application security solutions, recently announced that they had experienced a data breach that exposed user’s email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys, and SSL certificates. In addition, the company's API security standards raise concerns. | Continue reading
Amazon just made enabling Alexa skills within third-party apps a lot easier. The App-to-App Linking feature and associated Alexa Skill Activation API allow app users to enable an Alexa skill within a third-party app. Prior to the features, users were forced to use the Alexa app t … | Continue reading
Stream, a provider offering a streaming API platform has announced the addition of the native Android SDK for both Java and Kotlin. The SDK allows developers to add scalable feeds, activity streams, and chat functionality to their applications. Stream now offers support for most … | Continue reading
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Marketing and Authorization. Featured today is an API for managing contracts and eSignature data, and APIs for integration with AddEvent calendar services. Here's a rundown of the lat … | Continue reading
Feathers 4 is now available. The framework for real-time applications and REST APIs now has built-in Typescript definitions, framework-independent authentication, and many new friendly user interface features. Developers can get a brand new API up and running in under 15 minutes. | Continue reading
Google has announced updates to the Cloud Text-to-Speech API that will provide developers with 12 new languages/variants as well as 76 new voices. The API now includes 95 WaveNet voices, which the company claims are far more natural-sounding. | Continue reading
API design is often treated as a uniform set of generic steps, but this approach can lead to development rework down the road. Instead, APIs should be segregated into three layers to make sure their architecture will scale, before a team chooses from among a set of API design app … | Continue reading
Google announced multiple changes to its Ads and Search APIs. In the Ads API, changes were made to prevent the same payment account applying across manager account hierarchies. In the Search APIs, certain Android appearances that are no longer available in the Console UI are no l … | Continue reading
The Real Estate industry is undergoing a digital transformation, and APIs are driving the changes. APIs are available for facilitating real estate marketing, standards, insurance, mortgages, property management and land development. Here we cover twelve top Real Estate APIs from … | Continue reading
Eighteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Security, Web Site Management, and Sports. Highlights include an API for Netlify static website services, and an API for Joinesty enterprise security services. Here's a rundown of the latest ad … | Continue reading
Are all CPaaSes (Communications Platform as a Service) created alike? Telesign's director of product management Vince Oh thinks not. In this interview with ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind, Oh explains how Telesign's parent company gives it a unique competitive a … | Continue reading
Apple seeded an eighth round of betas to developers this week, bringing iOS 13 and iPadOS one step closer to public release. With Apple's annual iPhone event believed to be on deck for September 10, the new platforms should become available to regular people on or around Septembe … | Continue reading
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Voice, Mapping and Storage. Highlights include an API for managing membership subscriptions and APIs for Lambdatest cross browser testing services. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Atlassian has announced a new Asset Management API that will allow IT teams to more easily store and view asset information in Jira Service Desk. This new API should help to cut down on the back and forth between IT agents and end-users when working to resolve device issues. | Continue reading
GitHub recently announced support for the WC3 standard WebAuthn. WebAuthn brings a new level of security to GitHub and expands the number of browsers supported. GitHub believes we are sitting at the beginning of "the future of authentication" and WebAuthn lays the foundation for … | Continue reading
Facebook is pitching its Off-Facebook Activity feature as the solution to its crushed reputation over transparency and lack of user data control. But, two major questions remain. Will the feature be enough for Facebook critics? Second, what impact will the feature have on the dev … | Continue reading
While engineers build APIs to enable automation, they don’t always get the same benefits themselves during API development. In this article we will address the common problems with API development below and show how automation can help enterprises create better, faster, and more … | Continue reading
TomTom expanded its API portfolio specifically for the electronic vehicle market. The Long Distance EV Routing API allows developers to build apps that plan routes based on vehicle attributes and charging options. The EV Charging Stations API identifies charging stations along ce … | Continue reading
Stoplight, a provider of API design management solutions, has announced the release of Stoplight Studio, a new API visual editor that aims to simplify OpenAPI development. The new interface includes tools designed to enable real-time API testing and to streamline collaboration. | Continue reading
The hardware-based blue screen of death is now available for AWS EC2 cloud instances. The API feature, SendDiagnosticInterrupt, was recently added to AWS EC2 specifically for cloud instances where no hardware interrupt button is available for administrators to use in crash/reboot … | Continue reading
Developers may want to add dictionary functions to applications for a variety of reasons. Dictionary use can increase vocabulary, improve reading, writing and speaking skills, supply translation, process language for sentiment and aid accessibility. Here are ProgrammableWeb's 10 … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Weather, Messaging, and Polls. Featured today is an API that returns data about wildfires in the U.S., and an API that provides consolidated business messaging services. Here's a rundown of the … | Continue reading
In March of 2019, Facebook announced changes to the company’s advertising platform, these changes aim to reduce discrimination in job postings, housing ads, and credit ads. Developers will soon be required to comply with updated Marketing API standards based on these changes. | Continue reading
Slack has recently announced several upgrades to it’s messaging platform, these upgrades aim to improve communication inside larger organizations. These new enhancements include a new API for creating templated workspaces and a new announcement channel for communicating key info … | Continue reading
Square continued its move beyond payments into ecommerce in general by announcing its Orders API. The Orders API allows developers to build solutions that allow customers to place orders online, in-person, and in-app. Orders can be sent to other Square products or centralized POS … | Continue reading
Successful enterprises rely on the latest technology to drive business operations, intelligence, and efficiency. APIs are the driving force of business application development. In this article, we highlight twelve top business APIs, chosen by popularity from the visitors of Progr … | Continue reading
LinkedIn added an Audience Engagement feature to its LinkedIn Partner Program. Audience Engagement allows users to discover audiences, receive content recommendations, and benchmark content against competitors. LinkedIn offers the feature through API integration with limited laun … | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Games, eSports, and Science. Today's APIs include an API for a service that determines risk for property owners, and an API for classroom management services. Here's a rundown of the latest additio … | Continue reading
In the wheel of social media data breaches, Twitter is the latest company to apologize and vow to do better. Last week, Twitter reported that it may have inadvertently shared private data with advertising partners against the wishes of its users. Twitter will now stop sharing suc … | Continue reading
Amazon has announced the general availability of AWS Lake Formation. Lake Formation is a managed service that eases developers' ability to build, secure, and manage data lakes. Amazon achieves its goal through automation of functions such as collecting, cleaning, cataloging and s … | Continue reading