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Coronavirus Increases Demand on Chat Apps; Outages Ensue
On Monday, Discord Tweeted that it increased its capacity by 20% in order to make sure that those isolating themselves due to the Coronavirus could continue to text, video and voice chat without interruption. Less than an hour later, the service was completely unavailable due to server outages.
03-18-2020
Daily API RoundUp: StrongSalt, Zvelo, Spare, mParticle, TSA Wait Times
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Privacy, and Charity. Highlights include the Zvelo API, which can classify content and sniff out malicious activity, and an API for encryption-as-a-service. Here's a look at what is new.
12-21-2019
zvelo Introduces API for Web Content Classification and Malicious Detection
zvelo, a URL database provider, has announced a Web content classification and malicious detection tool: zveloAPI. The API covers full-path and page-level URLs for 500 categories and supports more than 200 languages. Where detection is needed with accuracy and speed, zveloAPI is a potential fit.
12-04-2019
How the Top Text Processing APIs Stack Up
ActiveWizards presents a valuable profile of the most capable text processing APIs. No longer just robust search engines, test processing evaluates many aspects of a document, such as its subject, tone, classification, and more. Let these APIs give you control of your growing content database.
03-16-2019
RingCentral Launches Embeddable Platform and Compliance APIs
RingCentral further integrated its communications features within enterprise systems. RingCentral Embeddable uses RingCentral's core voice and SMS features and allows access to such features within third party apps. The new e-Discovery and message retention APIs allows better compliance reporting.
03-14-2019
Bandwidth Enables Burst SMS Campaigns with Local Numbers
As many carriers begin to block burst SMS campaigns from short codes and toll free numbers, Bandwidth is empowering businesses with the ability to perform burst campaigns from local numbers. Using 10DLC SMS routes, Bandwidth has introduced its Local A2P API to build trust through local numbers.
03-12-2019
ProgrammableWeb's Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs of 2018: Big Data and Analytics
This portion of our series about the Most Interesting APIs in 2018 encompasses all APIs developers could utilize for data manipulation purposes, such as accessing data, extracting data from web sources, creating reports and visualizations, database administration, linking data in apps, and more.
12-24-2018
Tisane Labs Introduces API to Detect Abusive Text Content
Tisane Labs has introduced an API to detect and classify abusive text content. The AI-powered service identifies such speech across 27 languages. Not only can the service pinpoint specific words, it can classify the type of abusive content for labeling, moderation, and prevention.
11-15-2018
New Textmunication APIs Evolves CPaaS Offering
Textmunication first introduced its automated messaging platform last year. Now, the company has introduced a suite of new APIs that evolves the company into a complete CPaaS provider. With a continued focus on health clubs, Textmunication continues to add communication features to its platform.
08-08-2018
How Cybercriminals Take Advantage of Chat APIs and What To Do About It
Cybersecurity solution provider Trend Micro has issued a pair of reports that highlight how chat platform APIs can and are being used by cybercriminals to achieve their nefarious objectives. Because of the degree to which Webhook APIs are involved (an API attack vector not previously discussed
08-11-2017
In Other API Economy News: New AWS Java SDK, Facebook Graph API updates and More
We bring you a holiday edition of the API news that we weren't able to cover. Today's news includes a new version of the AWS Java SDK, Facebook offering an explanation to developers regarding a recent change to the Graph API, and extension to the Azure Text Analytics API and more.
07-04-2017
TeleSign Opens Self-Service Portal for its CPaaS APIs
Leading communications platform as a service (CPaaS) provider, TeleSign, opened a new self-service portal for access to its APIs and SDKs. While the CPaaS market is booming, more access to TeleSign cloud-based communications services should help attract innovation within the TeleSign ecosystem.
04-19-2017
The UK Government Releases Version 2 of its GOV.UK Notify API
A little less than a year after launching a private beta of the UK government's notification platform, GDS has upgraded to v2 of the associated API. GOV.UK Notify is a service that allows the government to text, email, and send letters to citizens and track the progress of such notifications.
01-11-2017
Performance Comparison of 10 Linguistic APIs for Entity Recognition
Named-Entity Recognition involves identifying an entity in a text and assigning it a class label. These classifications can include People, Locations, and Organisations, among others depending on the tool. This comparison looks at the performance of 10 natural language processing APIs.
11-03-2016
How to Validate Phone Numbers Using the Twilio Lookup API
Twilio's communication APIs are behind the communications of many recognisable brands, including Uber, Salesforce, and AWS. In this tutorial on the Twilio Blog, Sam Agnew provides everything you need to validate phone numbers in Node/JavaScript using the Twilio Lookup API as a REST API phonebook.
08-20-2016
Twilio Message Feedback API Helps Ensure Timely Delivery
Twilio has launched the Message Feedback API which monitors when end users receive messages. The API tracks actions that indicate when a message was received and reports the action back to Twilio. In turn, Twilio can tweak its services and delivery to adjust for network variances across the globe.
08-02-2016
How to Build a Text Message Group Chat with the Nexmo SMS API and PHP
Nexmo offers a series of cloud-based communication APIs that make it easy to integrate reliable communication services into any application. This tutorial by Tim Lytle on the Nexmo blog shows followers how to build a simple text message group chat using the Nexmo SMS API and PHP.
06-12-2016
Twilio's Notify API Reaches Customers Via Preferred Method
Twilio launched a beta trial for its new Notify API. The API represents a single, user-centric API that gives developers programmatic control over notifications to users in the format, and on the device most desired. Twilio hopes to send the right message, at the right time, to the right user.
05-27-2016
Top 10 Machine Learning APIs: AT&T Speech, IBM Watson, Google Prediction
Machine learning is everywhere these days including your smartphone, your email, your Amazon.com account and even your connected car. This article highlights the top 10 machine learning APIs on ProgrammableWeb. API capabilities include image tagging, speech recognition and predictive modeling.
08-03-2015
The Rapid Rise of Deep Learning Computer Vision Technology
This article highlights companies using deep learning-based computer vision technology and/or providing platforms featuring automatic photo tagging and classification services.
06-19-2015