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Planet Labs Introduces API for Satellite Imagery Services
Planet Labs Inc., a provider of high-resolution imaging solutions via their SkySat satellite constellation, has announced plans to release a cloud-based dashboard and accompanying API. Partnering companies will be able to use the new tools to automate satellite imaging task requests.
15 hours ago
5 Tips to Build Developer-Friendly API Products
The best APIs are built with design ground rules rooted in common sense. A uniting governance based on rigorous standards, knowing your target developers well, thoughtful nomenclature, and giving the support assets as much attention as the main product.
16 hours ago
Daily APi RoundUp: Strapi, TestProject, Flock, Stackpile, BonAPI
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Recreation, Location, and eCommerce. Highlights include an API that offers food substitutions, and API that reads license plates, and an API for Stackpile installation tool. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
17 hours ago
API Fortress Announces New API Debugging Gateway: Bloodhound
API Fortress has announced Bloodhound, a lightweight API debugging gateway that is free to download and open source. In less than 3 minutes, developers and engineers can begin using a powerful, purpose-built tool for API transaction debugging.
17 hours ago
MuckRock Announces Beta for New DocumentCloud API
MuckRock, a non-profit government document sharing provider, has announced a new version of the DocumentCloud API. The API gives users access to every functionality and feature available through the DocumentCloud web interface. DocumentCloud helps journalists organize and track documents.
20 hours ago
Alpha Roc Launches ALPHA API for its Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
Alpha Roc, an Arbitrage-as-a-Service platform provider for crypto markets, has announced an open beta for the company’s trading API. The new ALPHA API is designed to allow users with limited experience with investing to leverage the company’s AI-powered algorithms for cryptocurrency arbitrage.
1 day ago
Hasura Introduces New GraphQL Data Federation Feature: Remote Joins
Hasura has introduced a new data federation feature: Remote Joins. Remote Joins allows developers to treat data across sources as a single database. The existing data sources do not need to be modified in order to utilize Remote Joins. A simple point and click creates unified access between sources.
1 day ago
9 Top Text to Speech APIs
Text to Speech (TTS) technology is useful for providing audible content from text for accessibility and language translation. The ProgrammableWeb TTS category contains developer resources for adding the technology to applications, including SDKs, code samples and APIs like the 9 in this article.
2 days ago
Daily API RoundUp: Rock Seven, TrueSocialMetrics, Interview Mocha, Jawg
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Business, Mapping, and Banking. Highlights include an API for a lending platform, an API for IT monitoring, and an API for biodiversity literature and image data. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
3 days ago
DBS Bank India Introduces Real-Time Payments Platform for Truck Drivers
DBS Bank India has partnered with TCIL with the aim to empower truck drivers through the facilitation of real-time payments through the DBS RAPID solution. The solution for the transportation and logistics sector in the country will enable truck drivers to receive payments instantly.
4 days ago
Is Embedding Content via Instagram’s API Legal?
Ars Technica received confirmation via email this week that Instagram doesn't extend its copyright license to cover content that is embedded on external websites via the Instagram API. This news comes in light of an ongoing legal battle related to third-party use of the social platform’s data.
4 days ago
AcceleratXR Announces Open-Source Framework for NodeJS
AcceleratXR, Inc. today announced the launch of its new open-source project; Composer.js. Composer.js is a framework and toolset for rapidly building back-end API services using NodeJS. The project is a fork of the internal tools and technology the company has been steadily building.
5 days ago
Google Announces June Updates to the Display & Video 360 API
The Display & Video 360 API, which was first announced back in March, has seen a steady flow of updates over the past several months. Google has added to those improvements with a series of new features being added to the platform.
5 days ago
Enjin Simplifies Blockchain Integration Via New Java SDK
Last week Enjin, an open-source gaming development platform, launched an all-new Java SDK. The organization is hoping to make it easier for Java developers to integrate their blockchain technology into applications. This announcement comes weeks after the release of the Godot SDK.
6 days ago
Maverick Payments Adds New APIs to its Payment Services Platform
Maverick Payments, a provider of financial technology payments services, is proud to release new APIs to provide merchants and partners with different data and tools which make Maverick’s payment processing more frictionless supplemented by feature-rich technology.
6 days ago
X-Rite and Pantone Launch ColorCert Reporting API
X-Rite and Pantone, two companies that specialize in the creation and support of color standards for the digital and manufacturing industries, have released the ColorCert Reporting API. The new API is aimed at simplifying quality control for companies that produce consumer packaged goods.
6 days ago
Daily API RoundUp: DEV, NatureServe, RetroTax, Guestmeter, OpenZeppelin
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Feedback, Business, and Nature. Highlights include an API that returns flood data for the U.K. and an API for DEV Community platform articles and other content. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
06-02-2020
Rapyd Launches UK-Based Payments Solution
Rapyd, a global Fintech as a Service company, today announced the launch of a single, "full-stack," payment solution in the United Kingdom allowing businesses locally and globally to access every major local payment method through one easy to integrate connection.
06-02-2020
Suprema Launches G-SDK for gRPC Security Integration
Suprema, a provider of security and biometrics technology and equipment, has launched a new SDK that is designed to further simplify integration with third-party ID management software. The Suprema G-SDK provides support for languages including Java, C#, Python, Node.js, and Go.
06-02-2020
Quttera Announces Malware Scanner API Improvements
Quttera has introduced several new features in its Malware Scanner REST API. Service architectures using published APIs have largely replaced bulky, monolithic applications, and cybersecurity is embracing this trend. They find that this approach gives them greater flexibility and scalability.
06-01-2020