Facebook has published a page for Facebook Platform developers that answers frequenty asked questions (FAQs) about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR went into effect on May 25 and requires companies in the EU and around the world to comply with stronger data … | Continue reading
Dealpath has opened its third party API providing customers and partners with convenient, real-time access to their data. Dealpath's platform is designed for interoperability with other leading software systems and provides unprecedented flexibility for institutional real estate … | Continue reading
Phone geolocation company LocationSmart allowed users to look up the real-time location of any supplied mobile phone number without the need of a password or authentication. API security leaks such as this are all too common but what is worrisome is how LocationSmart got this dat … | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including VoIP, Background, and Home Automation. Featured today is an API for searching for specific phrases within podcasts, an API for credit score verification, and one for integrating with branded email … | Continue reading
Amazon this week announced that it has added support for S3 Select in the AWS SDK for Ruby. Amazon S3 Select allows developers to retrieve subsets of data from objects stored in S3 using simple SQL expressions. The AWS SDK for Ruby now allows developers to use the S3 #select_obje … | Continue reading
ClearCare, a leader in home care technology, has launched an API for its home care platform. The API will help streamline communication between the various service providers in home care with other stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem including hospitals, insurance companies, … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Security, Banking, and WebRTC. Highlights include the Google Hangouts Chat API and several APIs for integrating with CA Veracode security elearning services. Here's a rundown of the latest additi … | Continue reading
Marvel has launched the Marvel API. Through the API, developers gain programmatic access to the core functionality of the Marvel App. With the API, developers can build bots, dashboards, integrations, or entirely new apps on top of the Marvel API. The goal is to streamline collab … | Continue reading
Twilio has announced the launch of a public beta for its Recording Composition API. The Recording Composition API allows developers to transcode, combine and mix Group Room video recordings, which are stored in separate audio and video tracks, programmatically, eliminating manua … | Continue reading
While the majority of the APIs within the ProgrammableWeb directory are REST-styled APIs, that isn't the only architectural style in use, not by a long shot. In this article we look at our directory data to see what underlying technologies are most popular across the various Push … | Continue reading
Mapbox continues to enhance mapping features designed for gaming in the AR space with new features to its Maps Unity SDK. Specifically, Mapbox has added new features to points of interest and augmented reality to the latest version of the SDK. Mapbox will demonstrate next week at … | Continue reading
AWS DeepLens is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. AWS DeepLens is a deep learning-enabled video camera for developers. The initial release of the camera will include six sample projects, and it comes with pre-trained models, tutorials, code, and other tools for developer … | Continue reading
Microsoft has unveiled a Speech Devices SDK that allows manufacturers of microphone-enabled devices to integrate their devices with the cloud-based Microsoft Speech service. The Speech Devices SDK consists of a pre-tuned library that is paired with a microphone-enabled device. | Continue reading
At its annual Unite conference earlier this month, hosted ecommerce platform Shopify announced a number of major product announcements, including several that impact the company's developer ecosystem. As part of this, Shopify announced that its admin API will support GraphQL. | Continue reading
One of the cool things our directory data allows us to do is to get a glimpse at both short term and long term trends in the API space. One slice of data worth looking at is the categories have had the most growth. This article looks at which categories have grown the most in the … | Continue reading
Microsoft uses docs.microsoft.com as its single repository for all API docs, reference material, code samples, and other developer resources. Microsoft has updated the repository with two new features (REST API Browser and Try It) to help developers easily find relevant APIs test … | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Marketing, Nutrition, and Games. Highlights include an API for integrating Stratfor Worldview service, provides intelligence, predictions, and news regarding global issues. Here's a rundown of th … | Continue reading
Amazon has announced the general availability of its Sumerian AWS service, a solution for building virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D applications. According to Amazon, Sumerian requires no special skills to use and is "the fastest and easiest way to create VR, AR, and 3D … | Continue reading
Revolut has expanded its Revolut for Business offering by extending banking services through an Open API. The API is designed to integrate with internal business systems and tools, as well as third party applications and workflows that businesses rely on to operate their business … | Continue reading
Twitter has announced that it is delaying the shutdown of legacy APIs as its new Account Activity API is now generally available to all developers. The legacy APIs, namely the Site Streams and User Streams APIs, as well as Direct Message endpoints, were slated to be turned off on … | Continue reading
Twenty APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Marketing, Mapping, and Weather. Highlights include the GitHub Checks API, which gives developers to build solutions for continuous integration, linting and acceptance testing. Here's a look at w … | Continue reading
Favstar, a service that helps users "find great tweets and interesting people to follow", has announced that it will be shutting down next month because of changes Twitter is making to its APIs. Favstar's creator, Tim Haines, was left with no choice but to shut his service down d … | Continue reading
Stratfor has launched its Enterprise API which provides access to the company’s complete repository of global geopolitical content. Content that can be access with the API includes statistics and coordinates for global events, country threat indices, and actionable geopolitical f … | Continue reading
Edamam announced its latest API serving the diet and nutrition space. The Food Database API provides access to common foods bought in stores or ordered in restaurants. The API uses natural language processing to extract food information and search based on food name, nutrients, a … | Continue reading
This article is focused on SaaS and Application developers considering how to best meet their end-user’s integration and automation needs. These days it's not so much ‘do you integrate?’ but ‘how do you integrate?’ In the end the goal should be to focus on satisfying stakeholders … | Continue reading
A new feature in Android P will crash apps that become unresponsive without prompting users, creating the potential for developers to receive fewer crash reports. In previous versions of Android, a dialog is displayed to users when an app that is in the foreground stops respondi … | Continue reading
Dropbox recently released v2 of its Team Events API. The Team Events API is part of Dropbox Business and allows users to track activity within Dropbox. The API has been completely rewritten from v1, and includes over 300 events that users can access through the activity log. | Continue reading
Early this year, Graphcool introduced GraphQL bindings. After months of developer feedback and a host of new use case scenarios, version 2.0 of GraphQL bindings is here. 2.0 includes API changes, automated code generation, new tooling, create your own binding options, easier inte … | Continue reading
MuleSoft has announced the Titan release of its Anypoint platform. The release features several new capabilities including a container service for multi-cloud deployments and an end-to-end monitoring solution. The release also includes a number of new MuleSoft certified connector … | Continue reading
ClimaCell has announced the launch of its Micro Weather API which provides hyper-local historical and real-time weather data. The API returns weather data requests such as real-time weather, short-term forecast (nowcast), heatmap tiled image, and a rectangular grid of weather det … | Continue reading
Eighteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Banking, eCommerce, and Healthcare. Highlights include the recently announced Google Photos API and several APIs for integrating with Citibank services. Here's a rundown of the latest additions … | Continue reading
Microsoft's Bing has launched a private preview release of two new Bing Maps APIs. The Bing Maps Location Recognition API and Bing Maps Autosuggest API allow developers to deliver new kinds of experiences and provide richer analytics about locations at which users are situated. | Continue reading
DMG has launched an API platform to help combat money laundering and fraud in Bitcoin transactions. The Bitscore Risk API provides a Bitscore that offers a measure of "tainted" currency that flows through transactions on a given network. The Bitscore helps quantify risk on a netw … | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Postcodes, Financial, and Inventory. Highlights include the LawPanel API for accessing trademark data and the Adobe Audience Manager for intellgent insights about customers. Here's a rundown of t … | Continue reading
ServiceNow has new Enterprise DevOps components that expand its Agile Development offerings. The company has new Enterprise DevOps program planning with the ServiceNow SAFe 4.5 (Scaled Agile Framework) product, the Agile Development product, and new Slack and Microsoft Teams inte … | Continue reading
One of the more interesting views given by the directory is a look at what sectors are seeing the most growth in APIs. The directory data model allows for one primary category as well as multiple secondary categories and in this article we take a look at which categories are most … | Continue reading
GitHub has announced a beta public release of a new Checks API that gives developers to build solutions for continuous integration, linting and acceptance testing. The API, which currently works with GitHub's REST API, allows GitHub integrations to obtain richer information about … | Continue reading
In addition to debuting new APIs, Google has refreshed just about all its developer tools and services. It you're using Android Studio, Kotlin, Google Play Console, or any of the dozens of Android developer features, it's time to download the latest bits. Here's what's new. | Continue reading
Google has released the second developer preview of Android P and with it detailed a new set of APIs for the mobile platform. There's plenty more under the hood in this second dev previews. Here's a rundown of all the new tools available for developers to put to use in their apps … | Continue reading
Google Photos is one of Google's best efforts. The cloud-based service not only backs up photos, but taps into Google Assistant for help creating collages, albums, and more. The new Google Photos Library API will allow developers to port Google Photos, with all its tools, into th … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced that it is launching a unified API for all of its AI speech services at its annual Build conference this week in Seattle. The new API, which is part of the company's Azure platform, will combine into a single API four APIs that are currently made available as … | Continue reading
According to a recent commit to the main repository of the Android Open Source Project, Google is preparing to prevent apps from monitoring network activity in the background. The new commit will restrict app access to /proc/net, which contains kernel output related to network a … | Continue reading
Google has introduced a production ready, first version of Android Things. Android Things is Google's managed OS for the Internet of Things. Android Things launches with production-ready support for a number of certified System-on-Modules (SoMs), and additional SoMs for developme … | Continue reading
Google's Chromebooks are about go get a whole lot better. The company today said Chromebooks will soon be able to run Linux in a virtual machine, where developers can code and even deploy Android apps directly to Chrome. Google says this is all about listening to its power users | Continue reading
Google today debuted ML Kit, a new software developer kit with five core APIs that gives mobile developers the power to instantly add machine learning to their apps all through Firebase. If you're looking to add some serious computational smarts to your app, this is the tool you … | Continue reading
Enterprise software companies display wide variety in their needs and behaviors but fundamentally they are concerned with security, administration and control, cost-effectiveness and visibility. While the problems are not unique to APIs, the solutions used by modern enterprises i … | Continue reading
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence have been a part of the API conversation for a number of years now. When it comes to Machine Learning, it's no secret that Python is one of the most popular languages. This article looks at five Python based tools for working with Mach … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Messaging, Real Estate, and Cryptocurrency. Highlights include APIs from data intelligence solution provider Melissa for ensuring correct business contact data. Here's a rundown of the latest a … | Continue reading