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500px API No Longer Free of Charge
This week, 500px cryptically announced the 500px API would no longer be available for free. The announcement hints that the API will continue to be available for a price, but no pricing tiers or models have been published. The announcement was made via Hacker News and developers are speculating.
06-20-2018
Snapchat to Launch its First-Ever Developer Platform
According to a report published by TechCrunch, Snapchat is secretly planning to launch a developer platform, its first ever. Dubbed Snapkit, prototypes of the platform suggest it will give developers access to Snap's camera software so that they can integrate it into their applications.
05-31-2018
Daily API RoundUp: Google Photos, Shopify GraphQL, Citibank, ClickUp
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.
05-12-2018
Google Photos Library API Brings The Power Of Google Photos To Your App
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 their own application.
05-09-2018
Instagram Has Effectively Killed its Public API
Instagram has deprecated much of its public API effective immediately. In a changelog published today, the popular Facebook-owned social media sharing platform announced that the endpoints for Follows and Relationships, Public Content Commenting, Likes and User Search have been removed.
04-04-2018
Instagram Breaks Apps, Surprises Developers With Substantial API Rate Limit Reduction
Facebook-owned Instagram has broken apps and surprised developers by substantially reducing the number of API calls allowed per user per hour. According to reports, the rate limit for the Instagram API was reduced from 5,000 per user per hour to 200 per user per hour this weekend without warning.
04-03-2018
Snap Opens up Its Marketing API to All Developers
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, today announced that its Marketing API is now available to all developers. The API allows third parties to programmatically buy ads in the Snapchat app and manage their advertising campaigns. It also offers additional targeting and testing functionality.
02-13-2018
Daily API RoundUp: Starling Bank, ICObench, Estated, UserIQ
Sixteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Banking, Mapping, and Photos. Highlight include the Get Image API which returns data about the location and cameras used for a particular photograph. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
12-16-2017
Updates to Walgreens API Platform Coming Soon
Walgreens has announced that a number of updates are coming soon to the company’s API Platform. Among the platform updates are the addition of a Store Number List Endpoint to the Store Locator API, the launch of the new Add To Cart API, and backend upgrades to the HTML Checkout Photo Prints API.
12-15-2017
How to Build a Photo Gallery with the Cosmic JS API API University
Would you like to add a photo gallery to an application with the help of Vue.JS framework? It could be useful to showcase products, demonstrate what a service can do for the users, or serve as a call to action.
Vue.JS framework facilitates building user interfaces on the web.
11-05-2017
Prisma Shifts Focus From Photo Editing App to API-Driven B2B Services
Prisma, an AI-powered photo filter company, is shifting focus from its mobile app to SDK and API-based B2B services. Prisma announced it will continue to support the Prisma app, but it will concentrate on offering third parties programmatic access to its machine vision and photo editing features.
08-22-2017
Instagram Launches New API Features and Upgrades to Facebook Graph API
Instagram made API news today with new comment features, and a major upgrade. The Instagram Platform API has upgraded to Facebook's Graph API. This allows greater flexibility to access Instagram data from third party tools. Instagram commented that the API will be available to all developers soon.
07-24-2017
Everypixel Launches API Access to Image Search and Aesthetic Filter
Everypixel has made a name for itself among the developer community for its artificial intelligence based image search and aesthetic filter technology. After numerous requests from the developer community, Everypixel has published an API so developers can programmatically access the tool.
07-06-2017
Unsplash API Now Completely Open and Free
Roughly a year and a half after Unsplash began opening its API to third parties, the company has opened the floodgates to its API. The company boldly opened up the API that the photo community Web app currently runs on. Further, API access is totally unrestricted and completely free.
05-10-2017
Build a React Universal Blog with Next.js and ButterCMS API University
A common client request is to integrate a blog directly into their React app; one that lives in a subdirectory for its SEO benefits. Common solutions include using a pre-rendering service but in this article you'll learn how to build a CMS-powered blog using React, Next.js, and ButterCMS.
05-02-2017
New Apple API Opens Live Photo Functionality to Third Parties
Apple recently announced a new API that allows third party websites and apps to embed Live Photos. Live Photos has been around since 2015; however, embedding Live Photos outside of a Mac or iOS environment has been somewhat challenging to date. The Live Photos API should alleviate that difficulty.
04-24-2017
Daily API RoundUp: Meditrics, Art Beat, World Air Quality
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Messaging, Healthcare, and Natural Language Processing. Highlights today include an API for real-time analytics of wearable health devices and hardware. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
03-23-2017
Panoramio Service and API to Shut Down in November
Google has announced that they will shutting down panoramic photo sharing site Panoramio, along with its API on November 4th. Originally the company had announced plans for the shut down back in 2014 but due to strong community feedback they postponed those plans until users had viable options.
10-22-2016
Daily API RoundUp: Pexels, Act! Moocher.io, Muzzley, Skyfish, Cloud Elements
Twenty Two APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Photos, Payments, Home Automation, and Contacts. Highlighted today are several APIs from Cloud Elements plus an API for Pexels free stock photo service. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
09-10-2016
CrowdRiff Announces Visual Influence API for Travel Industry
CrowdRiff has announced API access to its Visual Influence platform. API access to CrowdRiff features allow users to deliver user-generated photos and associated features to marketing products and campaigns. Features include social media search, calls to action, photo acquisition, and more.
08-30-2016