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In Other API Economy News: Yandex Open Source Machine Learning Library and More
This weekend's look at what what going on in the world of APIs discusses Russian search giant Yandex's open sourced machine learning library, CatBoost. We also cover an Email Verification API from validation company SmartSoft, and look at HP's release of their data protection suite backed by an API.
4 days ago
PandaScore APIs Deliver Access to E-Sports Data
There is no shortage of statistics and data for live sports these days. However, not many are aggregating and collecting similar data for e-sports across the various channels. PandaScore is looking to change that and act as the hub for data and statistics in the e-sports world.
07-10-2017
How to Turn Existing Web Pages Into RESTful APIs With Import.io API University
Getting structured data out of web pages — often referred to as "web scraping" — is a real need, particularly for people whose job it is to prepare and analyze the information that's available in web pages. Meeting this need is right up the alley of a data extraction tool, such as Import.io.
07-05-2017
MZ Announces $1,000,000 Live Open Data Challenge to Promote Platform
MZ is best known for its mobile game hits (Game of War - Fire Age and Mobile Strike). In building a platform to support mobile game distribution to millions of concurrent users, MZ began the construction of a massively scalable live data platform. MZ has now opened to platform, Satori, at no cost.
04-05-2017
EquipmentWatch Announces an API for the Heavy Equipment Industry
EquipmentWatch has built a name for itself in the heavy equipment industry through its Web app that provides a single window into heavy equipment data. The company is now opening the API that currently powers the Web app to the developer community for integration with third party systems.
03-23-2017
How to Use APIs and a Data Integration Layer to Manage SaaS Silos API University
As business computing migrates to SaaS applications, developers must address the problem of the data silos the software creates. APIs let you move data in and out of these online applications but, they present a new set of problems: managing data in several applications using several APIs.
03-13-2017
ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2016: Big Data and Data Analytics API University
This article is part of a 10-part series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2016. Big Data and Data Analytics APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.
12-27-2016
GeoFeedia Abused Twitter and Instagram APIs For Protester Surveillance
Location-based social media analytics company GeoFeedia attempted to abuse the public data streams it receives from other social media platforms by monitoring the public, according to documents revealed by the ACLU. This article on Techdirt discusses the issue, and how the major platforms responded.
11-09-2016
5 Key Elements to Look for in a Web Data API
Thousands of researchers, entrepreneurs, and executives need to tap into Web data to deliver insights. Access to structured Web data tends to be limited at best, and heavily gated by billion dollar corporations. Consuming crawled web data with an API usually makes more sense for businesses.
10-18-2016
Gnip Audience API Now Features Twitter Aggregate User Age Information
The Gnip Audience API now features Twitter aggregate user age information. The Gnip Audience API includes nearly one dozen demographic models including gender, interests, TV genre, TV show, language, etc. User age is the newest addition to the set of Gnip Audience API demographic models.
10-06-2016
Will the API Kill the Data Scientist?
PipelineDB recently announced Stride, a realtime analytics API. API access to powerful analytics engines delivers the potential for computers to replace the role of the data scientist. PipelineDB President, Jeff Ferguson, believes Machines Analytics may turn this potential into reality.
10-05-2016
Tableau API Suite Enables In-App Data Analytics, Visualizations, and Experiences
Tableau extended its data intelligence abilities to third party apps and services via a suite of APIs. The APIs are delivered to the developer community through Tableau 10, the company's latest platform release. From embedded analytics to web data connectors, Tableau delivers data insights to all.
09-30-2016
Daily API RoundUp: Validic, Quantum.io Gravity, DataCite, FatSecret, Payplug
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Payments, Nutrition, Health, and Weather. One highlight today is the Skywise Insight API, which provides industry specific weather forecasts and climate data. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
09-01-2016
Microsoft's Excel API Now Generally Available
In Microsoft's journey to make Office an open developer platform, the company has taken the next step by making the Excel REST API generally available. Now developers can integrate the business productivity tool with third party services like accounting software, emails, surveys, etc.
08-08-2016
Daily API RoundUp: Mode Analytics, Text2Data, College Scorecard, Plenar.io, PokeAPI
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Natural Language Processing, Transportation, Games, SQL, and DevOps. One highlight today is the PokéAPI, which can access a Pokémon database. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
07-23-2016
MightySignal Reveals the SDKs that iOS Apps are Using
Data aggregation platform MightySignal aims to improve the visibility of app data to provide insight into the mobile app economy. In this app index, the company shows the most popular SDKs used by the App Store Top 200, showing the top 8 apps that use each one, as well as all other SDKs they use.
07-16-2016
BetterWorks Announces API to Connect Workplace Data Points
BetterWorks announced an API that connects data points from across an enterprise into a single report, dashboard, or method. The API enables companies to gather the data necessary to create and measure company goals. BetterWorks aims to "combine the power of goals and the value of people".
06-23-2016
Wells Fargo Cites New API as Screen Scraping Countermeasure
With the many vulnerabilities of scraping bank account data causing concerns for some large banks, Wells Fargo recently announced that it intends to create an API to enable integration with accounting software Xero to give small businesses better visibility of their banking data.
06-18-2016
What Is Open Banking and Why is it Important? API University
Open Banking is aiming to give consumers access to real-time banking data through the use of APIs. The successful implementation of this type of system will change the way people save, borrow, spend and invest their money, as well as encourage healthy competition in the financial services industry.
06-05-2016
YouTube Adds Historical Data to Reporting API
Now that YouTube's Reporting API has been live for roughly half a year, YouTube has started adding new features. The latest new feature is historical data. Historical Data provides a 180 day lookback from a particular job's schedule date. Historical data is available beginning July 1, 2015.
05-13-2016