Machine Learning (ML) is a type of Artificial Intelligence in which the main principal is that computers can learn and make decisions without relying on human programming. ML APIs can be used to enhance applications with predictive functions and more. Here are some top ML APIs fr … | Continue reading
In recent years, weather has become more extreme. Luckily meteorology and weather data retrieval tools are improving every day. Developers looking to build applications for weather can check out these popular APIs that are listed in the Weather category on ProgrammableWeb to suit … | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Blockchain, Payments, and Security. Highlights include the DARKINT Suite API that provides risk intelligence about a company's darknet digital footprint. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Facebook has another data privacy scandal on its hands. This time, the problem comes from weak security practices from its Instagram app. A location-based marketing firm called Hyp3r has created a massive database of location and consumer profiling data that is largely scraped fr … | Continue reading
Google has recently announced the addition of new API security reporting features to the company’s API management platform. These new features are currently in beta, with the company intending to roll out functionality to all Apigee Edge enterprise cloud customers over the next … | Continue reading
Last year, GitHub introduced its Actions API. The API enables developers to orchestrate workflows based on events. Developers have quickly adopted the API and have built thousands of workflows with Actions; but, have consistently requested CI/CD support. As of today, CI/CD is sup … | Continue reading
Artrendex has announced the release of ArtPI, which the company describes as “an API driven by artificial intelligence that’s poised to transform the way art gets discovered, displayed, and sold.” The new service takes advantage of AI’s strengths in pattern matching and trend rec … | Continue reading
Developers looking to create applications for chefs, nutritionists, producers, and foodies have plenty of Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, to choose from. In this article, we examine the ten most popular APIs in the ProgrammableWeb Food category, as determined by traf … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Healthcare, Open Banking and Boating. Highlights include an API that keeps users up to date about yachts, and an API for efficient food and beverage ordering. Here's a rundown of the latest addit … | Continue reading
Twilio has released a beta version of its Conversations API. The unified API allows developers to aggregate messages across channels (SMS, MMS, Chat, and WhatsApp) into a single conversation. Additionally, administrators can control the conversation and supplement with experienti … | Continue reading
Facebook is open sourcing video and photo matching tech so that partners and non-profits can leverage the technology to fight the spread of abusive content. The video matching technology, TMK, and the photo matching technology, PDQ, uses an identification and hashing system to pr … | Continue reading
Recent technology backed by machine learning is making it possible to recognize people and objects from images, videos, sounds, body parts, speech, phrases, characters, even typing. Developers can find over two-hundred APIs for Recognition on ProgrammableWeb. Here are some top ch … | Continue reading
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Boating, Environment, and Artificial Intelligence. Featured today is an API for automated form data input and an API for airspace management for drones. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Creating an application to search for events or enhance an event for attendees can be a massive undertaking. Finding the best Application Programming Interface, or API for an event app can also be difficult, so ProgrammableWeb is here to help. Here are the top APIs for events on … | Continue reading
Twenty APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Monetization, Logistics and Food. Featured today is the FaunaDB GraphQL API, the Geotab API for fleet tracking, plus an API for retrieving mushroom observation data. Here's a rundown of the lates … | Continue reading
APIs sit at the center of organizations’ digital transformation initiatives, making them attractive to hackers. In response, API management solutions are employed, but organizations also need to address the growth of more sophisticated attacks on APIs by implementing dynamic, AI … | Continue reading
PayPal has announced the release of a new PayPal Invoicing API, which aims to provide small businesses with the tools necessary to easily create, send, and process invoices. Although targeting small businesses, the company has noted that the API has a global reach. | Continue reading
API-like technologies that move data between dissimilar systems have been around for much longer than the phrase "Web API" has been fashionable. As it turns out, a walk down that memory lane is all it takes to understand what GraphQL is, how it evolved from its predecessors, and … | Continue reading
You've heard about it. You may have even seen apps that depend on it. Now you're curious about GraphQL APIs and want to understand how they work. In this article, we explain all of the GraphQL fundamentals you'll need to start your successful journey with the GraphQL architectura … | Continue reading
In this part of our comprehensive series on the GraphQL architectural style of APIs, we offer a comprehensive tutorial on designing, launching, and querying, a GraphQL API. The tutorial includes tons of sample code while offering an interactive learning environment to make learni … | Continue reading
In an effort to address a key weakness in the World Wide Web, its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed a second generation web technology called the Semantic Web. But the Semantic Web's fundamentals were never widely embraced. Now, those fundamentals are showing up in GraphQL a … | Continue reading
GraphQL is not a product. It's a specification. Specifications like GraphQL don't magically come to life. To make them work in the real world, you need platforms that support the specification, talented personnel who understand the spec, and API providers looking to put both to w … | Continue reading
Google has added some code to Android that suggests support for RCS may be expanded, though to what extent no one truly knows. For now, it’s clear that phone makers will gain access to a new API and, by extension, improved RCS compatibility. Third-party app writers, however, may … | Continue reading
Facebook has recently announced the release of Graph API (v4.0) and Marketing API (v4.0). The changes to these APIs are highlighted by updates to webhooks, Business Asset Groups, and ad creation and editing. Ad Insights also gains new functionality that provides more granular ins … | Continue reading
Today at the Blue Button Developer Conference at The White House, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a pilot program for a new Data at the Point of Care API. This new API aims to improve patient care by giving Medicare providers seamless access to patien … | Continue reading
SimpleNexus, a developer of a digital mortgage platform for loan officers, borrowers, and real estate agents, today announced the availability of an API and webhooks that enable mortgage lenders to establish real-time data syncing between SimpleNexus and non-integrated third-part … | Continue reading
Online advertising can be a complicated world for developers. Luckily, ProgrammableWeb has an entire category dedicated to Advertsing APIs. This article examines eleven of the most popular Advertising APIs listed on ProgrammableWeb according to website traffic from our users. | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Subscriptions, Banking and Cryptocurrency. Highlights include the PharmGKB API for retrieving data about gene and drug relationships and Intenseye API for image recognition. Here's a rundown of t … | Continue reading
Baron has launched its Weather API and associated website to democratize the integration of weather information to apps, websites, platforms, and services. Data available through the API includes current conditions, forecasts, storm tracking, severe conditions, ETA for storm arri … | Continue reading
Atlassian has announced new Jira Cloud workflow APIs that expand the ways that developers can interact with the company’s issue tracking platform. The new APIs provide users with the ability to create new custom workflow rules, retrieve workflows, and find workflows associated w … | Continue reading
Lisk has taken an interesting approach to blockchain application development. Its Sidechain Development Kit is written completely in JavaScript with the aim of easing barriers to entry for building blockchain apps. Now, the alpha release of the Lisk SDK is available as version 2. … | Continue reading
Pine Labs, a provider of a full-stack merchant platform that offers payment and analysis services, has announced the release of an in-store payment API. This announcement comes on the heels of the company’s online payment API recently being made available to developers. | Continue reading
Agility made its name through headless CMS offerings. While headless CMS is still going strong, the release of its Content Fetch API puts a whole new bent on its promise of "compose once, publish everywhere." The new API allows customers to spin up new instances quickly with comp … | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including DevOps, Data Mining, Humor, Spam and Location. Highlights include a new GraphQL API for Kiva microfunding loan service and an API that returns Dad jokes. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
It's been a big year for Apollo. First, it launched its GraphQL platform. Then, it launched an open-source tool in Apollo Federation. Now, Apollo is adding the open-source technology to its core platform to greater ease usability and adoption of GraphQL in the enterprise through … | Continue reading
NPM, a popular maker of JavaScript tools, has upgraded its flagship product: npm Enterprise. The focus of the upgrade increases security, compliance, and collaboration. Package filtering increases compliance, expanded SSO increases security, and UM improvements help scale collabo … | Continue reading
Movies, sports, TV, music, events, games, and pets are just a few options humans can turn to in order to keep themselves entertained. Developers looking to create entertainment applications should check out the top ten Entertainment APIs based on recent traffic to the Programmabl … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Cloud, Security and Insurance. Highlights include an API that supplies information about numbers and an API for analyzing fingerprint data for anti-fraud purposes. Here's a rundown of the latest … | Continue reading
The streaming monolith's new data integration system is now based on the data query and manipulation language. Netflix's content engineering group saw new improvements in team behavior and communications during testing, and this became the most important factor in this decision. | Continue reading
The 6.0 release of NativeScript is now available. The latest release includes a specific focus on developer productivity. Accordingly, 6.0 includes AppSync to enable instant app update delivery, the Core Theme v2 release for consistent and attractive UI, improved TabView and much … | Continue reading
FIME, a provider of Host Card Emulation (HCE) and cloud-based payments consultancy and testing services, has announced a new testing tool for open banking APIs. The company’s new solution, which has been named TrustAPI, allows partners to test APIs based on their specific needs. | Continue reading
Uber has joined the growing field of players in the conversational AI game. Its Plato Research Dialogue System is a platform for developing, training, and deploying AI-driven conversational agents. It integrates with third-party AI platforms and can be trained with any machine le … | Continue reading
Stream.io provides developers with tools for adding scalable feeds, activity streams, and chat functionality to their applications via the Stream API. The company has recently announced a new SDK that aims to streamline the addition/creation of chat functionality for iOS applicat … | Continue reading
YouAppi has released its Open Measurement Software Development Kit (SDK), which is designed to make possible third-party viewability and verification measurement for ads served to mobile app environments without requiring multiple Ad Verification service providers (or measurement … | Continue reading
The ProgrammableWeb directory eclipsed the 22,000-API mark in June 2019 and this milestone gives us a chance to look at what the data can tell us about the API economy. The directory has seen new APIs added at a 30% increase over the previous four years signaling that the API eco … | Continue reading
The new v15.0 SDK has sped up the initiating scan jobs process and adds concurrent processing for various upload methods. The SDK is widely used to expedite adding an online document scanner component to document management applications running in popular Internet browsers. | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Blockchain, Auto, and Video. Highlights an API for getting data about the FARA act, an API for astonomy events as they relate to positions on Earth, and new eBay APIs. Here's a rundown of the lat … | Continue reading
For companies evaluating whether or not to switch insurance plans, disruption analysis is a vital process that has historically been time and resource intensive. Vericred launched the Disruption Analysis API to fix this problem. InsurTech companies leverage Vericred logic to stre … | Continue reading