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Body Labs Introduces SOMA Shape API for 3D Model and Measurement Prediction
Body Labs introduced API access to its SOMA technology. SOMA scans a single photo of a human; analyzes the photo along with the subject's height, weight, and gender; and then generates a 3D model and digital measurements for the subject. The SOMA Shape API provides programmatic access to the tech.
6 days ago
eBay Announces New Sell and Buy APIs, Updated APIs
eBay has announced the availability of two new Sell and Buy APIs; the Taxonomy API and Buy Marketing API. The company also announced some of the existing Sell and Buy APIs have been updated to add new features. These APIs will eventually replace the eBay’s legacy Trading API..
06-22-2017
Daily API RoundUp: Meya, Rakam, GetBadges, Linkfire
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Music, and Games. Highlights today include the GetBadges API for gamification servicesand the Linkfire API for deeplinking apps to music retailers. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
06-17-2017
How to Use the X-Cart Shopping Cart API API University
X-Cart is a shopping cart solution for merchants looking to provide customers with both a desktop and mobile shopping experience. This tutorial will show you how to use X-Cart's REST API to exchange data with the X-Cart database without the need for direct access to the underlying database server.
06-13-2017
In Other API Economy News: AI-Powered Audio, Motion Sensing SDK and More
As the week kicks into high gear, here is another edition of ProgrammableWeb's "In other API Economy News". Today we look at the Audioburst API, billed as the Google for audio; Status.im's API for creating decentralized chatbots, Movesense's announcement of their motion sensor and SDK and more.
06-06-2017
Shopify Targets Discount Programs with New Price Rules API
Shopify has replaced its legacy Discounts API with the New Price Rules API. The API keeps what worked from the Discounts API, and greatly enhances those features with more flexibility and capability. One and five Shopify sales includes a discount of some sort, and Shopify wants to capitalize.
05-31-2017
Amazon Announces API-Powered Seller Subscription Service
This week, Amazon announced Subscribe with Amazon. The offering is a subscription service for sellers of digital products and services. Through a series of APIs, subscription sellers can use Amazon infrastructure to offer products and services on monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
04-28-2017
Shopify Launches Marketing Events API
At its Unite developer conference this week, Shopify introduced its new Marketing Events API. The API allows market app developers to track marketing events directly within the Shopify ecosystem. Marketing apps have long been popular within Shopify's App Store, but tracking has been difficult.
04-21-2017
Daily API RoundUp: SAP Anywhere, Heat Intelligence, VirusTotal
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Artificial Intelligence, Images, and Customer Service. Highlights today include a API that performs image transcription in real time and and API for malware detection. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
03-14-2017
eBay Updates Buy and Sell APIs
Changes are coming to the recently launched eBay Buy and Sell APIs. These changes include category name length increase, schedule changes for required product identifiers, and bidder privacy changes in the eBay Trading API. eBay will be implementing these changes in the coming months.
01-06-2017
Microsoft Announces Preview Version of Payment Request API in Microsoft Edge
Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Payment Request API in Microsoft Edge is available in preview. The Microsoft Payment Request API can be used to simplify checkout and payments on the web (via Microsoft Edge browser) for Windows 10 PC and mobile users. The API connects to Microsoft Wallet.
12-20-2016
New Body Labs API Could Yield Industry-Altering Benefits To Clothing Makers, Retailers, and Buyers
It happens to all of us. We buy clothes for ourselves or as a gift (online or in a store) and when those clothes are put on for the first time, they turn out not to fit. What happens next is the bane of the entire clothing industry and its customers. The return process is laboriou
10-12-2016
Daily API RoundUp: CoachHire, Tierion, Alerta, BetterWorks, ChargeIO, Bucky Box
We've added Fifteen APIs to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Notifications, Music, Goals, and Credit Cards. Highlighted today are an API for Digital Bible Platform, and APIs for a musical visualization platform and a goal platform. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
06-23-2016
Uber Opens UberRUSH API to All Developers for On-Demand Deliveries
Uber today opened the UberRUSH API to all developers. Using the API, developers can integrate UberRUSH, the transportation company's on-demand delivery service, into their applications to handle pick-up and delivery of pre-paid goods. In January of this year, Uber launched a private UberRUSH API.
06-09-2016
Square Aims for Stripe with E-Commerce API
Square is moving beyond the retail terminal thanks to a handful of new APIs meant to help companies accept payments in more places. The E-Commerce API and Register API target retailers large and small with a simple set of tools that integrate fully with Square's payment processing platform.
03-30-2016
Daily API RoundUp: ClipChamp, AnyChart, Jet, IntelligenceBank, Realty Web Syndicate
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as eCommerce, Charts, Video and Content. One highlight today is an API from Clipchamp, a service which records, converts, and compresses video directly from a browser. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
03-22-2016
Shopify Launches Sales Channel SDK to Enhance Its Merchants' Reach
Under the rubrick of what it calls a "Sales Channel SDK," Shopify has launched a series of APIs so that developers can build new sales channels that Shopify's merchants can then use to extend the visibility of their catalogs. The company also announced new partners who will be using those APIs.
03-22-2016
Daily API RoundUp: MineTools, Shoprocket, TranslateMedia, NASA PO.DAAC, Plus Gmail, Facebook SDKs
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Translation, Banking, Games, and Science. Also new to the directory are SDKs for Gmail, Sunlight Foundation, Strossle, and Facebook Graph APIs. Here's a rundown of the latest additions and how developers can use them.
02-29-2016
How to Build an eCommerce API With Ruby on Rails Part 3 API University
This article is the third of a three part series from MLSDev that shows you how to build an eCommerce API using Ruby on Rails. In this part, readers are shown how to secure their online store by implementing registration and authorization. A Github project accompanies this series.
01-20-2016
How to Build an eCommerce API With Ruby on Rails Part 1 API University
This article is the first of a three part series from MLSDev that shows you how to build an eCommerce API using Ruby on Rails. In this part, readers are shown how to set up your API to populate your online store with the products that you will be selling. A Github project accompanies this series.
01-19-2016