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How the ClimaCell Microweather API Is Changing the Game
If you're a developer looking for a weather API, you're probably overwhelmed by the number of options out there. The ClimaCell Micro Weather API has more granular data making it different from the rest. ClimaCell can sense more weather so it can deliver more granular real-time and forecast insights.
3 days ago
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter Announce Open Source Data Portability Project
Four tech titans have announced the Data Transfer Project. The project is an open source, service-to-service, data portability platform. With the implementation of GDPR, and the increase need of consumers to retrieve and move their data, the Data Transfer Project looks to standardize the process.
07-23-2018
Google Updates its Search Console Search Analytics API
Google has updated its Search Console Search Analytics API, which allows users to query their search traffic data, to support the retrieval of 25,000 rows of data per request, up from a previous limit of 5,000 rows per request. In addition, Google has added 16 months of data to the API.
07-16-2018
How and Why Meltwater Rolled Its Own Custom Testing Solution For Its API API University
This post will introduce you to the Synthetic Monitoring concept, which can make you feel more confident about your production system because you find errors quicker. It focuses on improving your Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), and gathering valuable metrics on how your whole system behaves.
07-03-2018
Daily API RoundUp: Google Search, Checklick, CoverWallet, BabbleLabs
Eighteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Insurance, Calendars, and Search. Highlights include the Google Search Indexing API and the BabbleLabs Clear Cloud API for speech and audio enhancement. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
06-30-2018
Google's New Indexing API Crawls Job Posts
Google has announced the launch of a new Indexing API that publishers can use to notify Google when job posting pages on their sites have been updated. According to Google, the use of the API "allows Google to schedule job postings for a fresh crawl, which can lead to higher quality user traffic."
06-27-2018
Daily API RoundUp: Apple Mapkit, Bugfender, City of Seattle, Admiralty
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Cryptocurrency, Monitoring, and Mapping. Highlights include APIs for programmatic access to the City of Seattle datasets, and the Apple MapKit JS API and SDK. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
06-12-2018
Apache Pulsar 2.0 Release Now Available
Streamlio has announced the release of Apache Pulsar 2.0 which includes several new enhancements including Schema Registry and Topic Compaction. This latest release of Apache Pulsar also includes the general availability of Pulsar Functions which are lightweight, stream-native compute processes.
06-07-2018
Jitterbit Launches Summer '18 Version of Harmony iPaaS Solution
Jitterbit has launched the Summer '18 version of its Harmony integration Platform as a Service solution. The latest release ensures that its 500 pre-built integrations include the most up to date enterprise cloud solutions that users can utilize in a low-code, click-based environment.
05-31-2018
Facebook Posts GDPR FAQ for Facebook Platform
Facebook has published a page for Facebook Platform developers that answers frequenty asked questions (FAQs) about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR went into effect on May 25 and requires companies in the EU and around the world to comply with stronger data protection rules.
05-29-2018
What Does a Push/Streaming API Look Like?
While the majority of the APIs within the ProgrammableWeb directory are REST-styled APIs, that isn't the only architectural style in use, not by a long shot. In this article we look at our directory data to see what underlying technologies are most popular across the various Push/Streaming APIs.
05-24-2018
Data, Financial, Analytics API Categories See Big Growth
One of the cool things our directory data allows us to do is to get a glimpse at both short term and long term trends in the API space. One slice of data worth looking at is the categories have had the most growth. This article looks at which categories have grown the most in the last five years.
05-21-2018
Social and Financial Among the Most Popular API Categories
One of the more interesting views given by the directory is a look at what sectors are seeing the most growth in APIs. The directory data model allows for one primary category as well as multiple secondary categories and in this article we take a look at which categories are most represented.
05-10-2018
Google Announces Updates to My Business API
Google My Business API version 4.1 includes five new features including merchant provided description, offer type posts, and customer provided media. Google also announced that agencies can now sign up for a Google My Business account which features a brand new agency dashboard.
05-02-2018
Melissa Introduces API Portal for Rapid Application Development
Melissa made a name for itself building contact data quality and identity verification services. The company has taken its next with the introduction of a single portal for various API access to its services. Melissa Developer provides access to business identification and location services.
05-01-2018
US Digital Service Launches v2 of Blue Button API to Ease Flow of Medicare Data
Over 57 million Americans get their health insurance through Medicare. However, one barrier to significantly improved care has been the free flow of Medicare claims data between dissimilar systems. According to the US Digital Service however, version 2.0 of the Blue Button API should fix that.
05-01-2018
Segment Launches a New API to Aid in GDPR Compliance
Analytics API provider and customer data platform Segment has announced a new API to help businesses comply with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules that go into effect next month in Europe. Under the GDPR, Europeans will have more control over and access to their personal data.
04-26-2018
OKCupid's Visitor API Provided Access to Users' Personal Information
Last year, dating app OKCupid removed the ability for its users to view who had visited their profiles, but a developer this week revealed that visitor data had still been available via OKCupid's Visitor API. In a blog post, Zack Whipkey detailed how he was able to access detailed user information.
04-10-2018
Algolia Launches Search Analytics APIs
Algolia, a hosted search engine API provider, today announced major updates to its Analytics platform, which include an enhanced Analytics API as well as a new Click Analytics API, with the aim of helping customers gain more visibility into how their users are performing searches.
03-14-2018
LoadView Takes API Testing to the Next Level with Webapps Simulating Users API University
In this part of the API testing series, we take a look at LoadView, a combination monitoring and load testing tool. If your company has a DevOps role, that may be the main user. Otherwise, this tool will most likely be used by a combination of people in testing and development roles.
03-12-2018