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Daily API RoundUp: Facebook, Great Circle-Squid, Nmap, Tradologics, Game DB
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Social, Boating, Security, and Financial. Highlights include the most recent version of the Facebook Graph API and an API for sentiment analysis in text. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
01-09-2021
10 Most Popular Social APIs of 2020
Although there is plenty of negative news about how social media is invading our privacy and affecting our society as a whole, it appears popularity hasn't waned. In this article we present the ten most popular Social APIs as determined by website traffic on ProgrammableWeb.
01-04-2021
Google Adds Entity Extraction, Selfie Segmentation APIs to ML Kit
A few years back Google introduced ML Kit, an SDK that lets mobile developers add machine learning to their apps. Recently, Google announced two new APIs (Entity Extraction and Selfie Segmentation) would be added to ML Kit to allow developers to create richer in-app experiences.
01-03-2021
Twitter Updates V2 API to Help Follow the Public Conversation
Twitter recently informed its developer community of updates to its API v2, including new resources intended to support conversation reply settings, a new feature that allows users to specify who can reply to their Tweets. These updates are meant to help those tracking public conversations.
12-27-2020
Sendbird Announces Chat Platform Enhancements
Sendbird has announced several updates to its chat offerings that the company hopes will allow developers to better adapt to a communication environment that has been reshaped by COVID-19. These Updated include new partitioning options for Open Channels, IP whitelisting, and message threading.
12-21-2020
Ayrshare Launches API for Automated Social Media Posting
Ayrshare, the social media API platform, recently announced the public launch of the Ayrshare Application Programming Interface, or API, to automate social media posting. The API addresses the needs of companies and platforms that programmatically post content to multiple social media networks.
11-24-2020
Daily API RoundUp: Sinch, Scrapfly, GuideStar, JobSearchi, 1NCE
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Non-Profit, Messaging, and Recognition. Highlights include an API that provides electoral vote data and an API from Sinch that aggregates messaging services. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
11-14-2020
Facebook Introduces V9 of the Graph and Marketing APIs
Facebook has announced the release of Graph API v9.0 and Marketing API v9.0. These updates included several changes that require developer action in order to ensure that production applications are not interrupted. Additional updates include adjustments to Instagram Follower count metrics.
11-12-2020
Sinch Conversation API Helps Unify Marketing Messaging Across Platforms
Sinch has announced the release of a new Conversation API that is designed to simplify the unification process of messaging across myriad channels and technologies. With the pandemic pushing the global workforce into remote environments communication fragmentation has increased exponentially.
10-30-2020
Facebook Launches Messenger API Support for Instagram
Facebook has announced the launch of beta access to a new Messenger API feature which will provide support for Instagram messaging capabilities. Facebook is hoping to provide businesses with the tools necessary to improve customer satisfaction and facilitate meaningful conversations on Instagram.
10-22-2020
RingCentral Launches New API for High-Volume SMS Service
RingCentral, Inc., a provider of global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration, and contact center solutions, today announced a new high-volume SMS service that enables businesses to send SMS messages and updates to their customers rapidly.
10-21-2020
Daily API RoundUp: DigitaltMuseum, Pixelixe, InstaFeed, Pikaso, Typesense
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Social, Data Mining and Graphics. Highlights include an API which provides DigitaltMuseum collection data in Norway and Sweden and an API to retrieve postal codes globally. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
10-14-2020
Twilio Announces Platform Additions to Support Digital Engagement
Today, communications platform provider Twilio announced three new products: Twilio Video Web RTC Go, Twilio Frontline, and the Event Streams API. These new products illustrate the point that organizations using an API-led approach can respond in an agile way to new challenges in the marketplace.
09-30-2020
Daily API RoundUp: Gates Open Research, Mattermost, Acxiom, Hotpot, GreenRush
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Messaging, Alcohol and Graphics. Highlights include an API to interact with Craft CMS and an API for searching for research articles from the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Here's a look at what is new.
09-29-2020
Sendbird Simplifies Access to Calls API via Self-Serve Portal
Earlier this year Sendbird announced the Sendbird Calls API to add platform support for voice and video capabilities over IP. Since that time the company had been updating the API and has now announced a new self-service option for the Sendbird Calls APIs.
09-29-2020
Amazon Adds Contact Flow APIs to Amazon Connect
Amazon introduced Contact flow management APIs for Amazon Connect, its cloud-based contact center. The APIs allow contact center administrators to create, describe, update, and publish contact flows. Programmatic execution of these functions accelerates time to deployment and minimizes errors.
09-23-2020
Daily API RoundUp: BestTime, Respond.io, Restwords, Live Helper, Autogrow
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Location, Messaging, and Music. Featured today is an API for Taylor Swift quotes, an API for forecasting the best time to visit a business, and APIs from the Meteorological Service of Canada.
09-09-2020
Sendbird Launches Announcements API for Seamless Messaging via Chat
Sendbird has launched a new Announcements API that is intended to allow developers to build tools for communicating with large user bases about promotional marketing and messages. This new API will allow for these messages to be seamlessly integrated into public and private group chats.
08-27-2020
10 Top Messaging APIs
It's not unusual to see applications with custom messaging services, and developers who create applications have a vast amount of choices for delivering messaging technology. In order to integrate with these services, developers need APIs. Here are 10 favorites, according to ProgramambleWeb.
08-23-2020
Twitter Moves Hide Replies Into General Availability
Twitter is moving the Hide Replies API endpoint out of Twitter Developer Labs, the company’s testing ground for emerging developer services, and into general availability. Using the API developers are able to build applications that help people hide or unhide replies to their Tweets.
08-21-2020