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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
Top 10 Satellites APIs
A few thousand satellites are orbiting Earth at the moment, providing communications, navigation, and gathering data such as Earth imagery. Developers wishing to create applications that connect to these satellites should check out ProgrammableWeb for APIs. Here are the top ten on our list.
06-14-2020
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.
06-09-2020
Daily API RoundUp: Peddle, Meisterplan, Synchro MSP, OMERO, Benzinga
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Financial, Science, and Mapping. Highlights include APIs from U.S. Veterans Affairs and an API that returns data and visualizations about agricultural crops. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
05-26-2020
Daily API RoundUp: Apple and Google Contact Tracing, Cognito, Speechly, ChemSpider
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Coronavirus, Science, and Open Source. Highlights include the Apple and Google Contact Tracing API and an API for retrieving product information from Amazon. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
05-19-2020
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
Daily API RoundUp: Octoparse, WHO, Splitit, Democracy Club, Peacemakr
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Science, Voting, and Extraction. Highlights include the SciTools Plus API for genetic analysis, and the GHO API from the World Health Organization for health data. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
03-03-2020
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
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: Lifestyle and Education
This article is part of a multi-part series about Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs that were added to our directory during 2019. These featured Lifestyle and Education APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.
12-31-2019
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
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
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 Popular Science APIs
It's a fact: scientists and researchers that work in physical science, Earth science, life science, computer science and any other scientific discipline have benefited from Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs. This article highlights the top Science APIs in the ProgrammableWeb directory.
06-30-2019
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
Daily API RoundUp: WildDuck, Knack, Lucid Meetings, Iternio, Pinball Map
Seventeen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Science, Web Site Management, and Cryptocurrency. Highlights include the Pinball Map API for locating pinball machines and the Hunter API for discovering email addresses. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
06-08-2019