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Daily API RoundUp: MagicBell, Menu Parser, CartQL, Collibra, MailerSend
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Restaurants and Jobs. Highlights include an API for managing shopping cart services, and an API to retrieve job listings for remote workers. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
12-16-2020
Google Announces Updates to the Search Console API
Google has been steadily improving the infrastructure behind the Google Search Console API to ensure that users are able to fully leverage all of the powerful features available in the Search Console. This week, the company announced that it will be further updating the API.
12-10-2020
Daily API RoundUp: GDELT TV, Klangoo, Markdown Guide, Sentinel Hub, Textgain
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Blockchain and Natural Language Processing. Highlights include an API for developing chat bots and an API for enabling visual search of content in television news broadcasts. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
08-22-2020
Google Releases Guidance for Search Console API Updates
Google has slowly been introducing changes to the Google Search Console API, all geared toward improving API performance in light of increased demand. The most recent changes will affect developers that are querying the API for internal data.
08-06-2020
Daily API RoundUp: Precisely, MeiliSearch, Shipfinder, Redash, DigiFi
Thirty-two APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Data, Documents, and Financial. Highlights include an API for business records fiscalization, and API for data dashboards, and APIs from Precisely for data accuracy. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
06-16-2020
Zoom Stops Facebook SDK Use after Data Sharing Exposed
Zoom has updated its iOS app to stop sending specific data to Facebook. Zoom's announcement came after Motherboard reported that data such as timezone, city, device details, etc. were sent to Facebook. This sharing came from Zoom's use of the Facebook SDK, which it will now stop.
03-30-2020
US HHS Introduces New Healthcare APIs
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has finalized two rules aimed at delivering US patients better access to their own health data. Two different departments under HHS (ONC and CMS) have issued these rules, and both rules require the use of APIs for easier patient access to data.
03-10-2020
Facebook Sues Analytics Company for Malicious SDK
Facebook has filed a lawsuit against OneAudience. The lawsuit alleges that OneAudience paid app developers to embed its SDK on applications that collected personal data from users on Twitter, Facebook, and Google. Facebook and Twitter both exposed the company's practices in November 2019.
02-28-2020
Firmex Launches API for Integrating and Automating With Third-Party Apps
Firmex, a provider of virtual data room and secure document sharing solutions used by companies worldwide, recently announced the availability of its application programming interface (API) that enables developers to integrate their VDR with existing third-party enterprise systems.
01-19-2020
Bing Shuts Down Ads API Version 12
Bing announced version 13 of the Bing Ads API in April of 2019. With that announcement came the warning of version 12’s demise, which was scheduled for October 31, 2019. That time has come and past. Bing is now notifying developers that all version 12 endpoints will soon return error 303.
01-17-2020
Introduction to aviationstack's Flight Status and Aviation Data API
This article offers an introduction to and tutorial on aviationstack, a free, real-time flight status and global aviation data API used by more than 5,000 companies. It offers up to the minute information on flight departures, arrivals, historical arrival data, routes, airports, airlines, and more.
01-09-2020
ProgrammableWeb's Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs of 2019: Big Data and Analytics
This portion of our series about the Most Interesting APIs in 2019 includes APIs developers could utilize for data manipulation purposes, such as accessing data, extracting data from web sources, creating reports and visualizations, database administration, linking data in apps, and more.
12-25-2019
What Happens When Data Quality Goes Wrong And How to Fix It
Corporate decisions are always driven by data and it determines a company’s long-term success. The quality of data a company can access determines their customer experiences, analytics, insights, retention, and revenue. This article looks at ways a company can improve its data quality.
11-12-2019
Introduction to serpstack's Free, Real-Time Google Search Results API
In this article, we offer an introduction and tutorial on serpstack, a free, real-time Google search results API used to monitor brand performance on search engine results pages around the world. serpstack is a vital SEO tool to research and understand search engine performance.
11-07-2019
Zenserp Adds Image Recognition to SERP API Suite
Zenserp provides developers with search engine result page (SERP) data via APIs. The company claims that its APIs are designed to closely mimic human search behavior in an effort to provide the most useful data. Today Zenserp has announced a new image recognition API.
10-25-2019
How to Innovate P&C Insurance With a Real Estate Data API
In the connected P&C insurance ecosystem, a property data API has become a critical enabler for businesses committed to staying ahead of the competition by modernizing workflows and offering innovative customer-centric services that have a direct positive impact on the bottom line.
10-22-2019
Daily API RoundUp: Ingram Micro, Dataverse, Zaius, PageCDN
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in the Science, Cryptocurrency, and Financial categories, among others. Highlights include the Chooch object and facial recognition API and the Dataverse API for research data access. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
09-21-2019
Google Announces Updates to Ads and Search APIs
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 longer supported.
08-26-2019
How Will the Off-Facebook Activity Feature Impact Developers?
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 developer community?
08-21-2019
10 Most Popular Data APIs
Data and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) go hand-in-hand. Application developers connect to endless sorts of data repositories with APIs, and ProgrammableWeb is the source to discover the best ones for their applications. Here we check out the ten most popular Data APIs in our directory.
06-23-2019