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How to Discover Channel IDs with the YouTube Data API API University
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In part 3 of this tutorial, we continue to extend our code and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
2 days ago
How to Discover Playlist IDs with the YouTube Data API API University
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In part 2 of this tutorial, we'll extend our code from part one and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
3 days ago
Facebook Opens its Instant Games Platform to All Developers
Facebook this week announced it has opened its Instant Games platform to all developers. The platform, which had been in beta, allows developers to build HTML5-based games that can be played across Facebook directly within News Feeds and in Messenger conversations on desktop and mobile devices.
03-16-2018
W3C WebAssembly Working Group Publishes Three First Public Working Drafts
The World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) WebAssembly Working Group has published three first public working drafts for the WebAssembly Core Specification, WebAssembly JavaScript Interface and WebAssembly Web API. WebAssembly offers developers a sway to run large, complex applications on the web.
02-21-2018
Google to Update Basemap Style for Google Maps APIs
Google yesterday announced that it will be updating the Google Maps APIs with a new basemap look and feel that is consistent with the look and feel that is now present across all Google products that incorporate Google Maps. The updated look and feel was implemented to improve user experience.
02-14-2018
How To Get YouTube Playlist Contents from the YouTube Data API API University
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In this tutorial, we'll review the YouTube Data API portal and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
01-19-2018
How To Hide API Keys in HTML5 Storage For Public Code Samples API University
We recently wrote about a post from CodePen.io that suggested a way of keeping API keys private when publicly sharing code samples. This time, we've gone back to that idea, given a try, and dogfooded it. We used JSBin to not only show how it works, we've embedded the "bin" in our tutorial.
01-17-2018
How to Create a Quick and Dirty Example of The Proposed Standard for In-Band API Service Warnings API University
As a best practice, API providers often go to a lot of trouble to notify developers of upcoming disruptions or changes to their APIs. All of this happens out-of-band like in a ChangeLog or an email. But how about the idea of in-band notifications, especially when developers are impossible to reach?
12-07-2017
readme.io's Build Looks To Greatly Simplify API Provisioning and Consumption (video)
Readme.io, a service that greatly simplifies the process of documenting technologies like APIs, is taking its popularity with API providers to the next level in a new offering called Build. Working off that tradition of simplicity, Build simplifies the design, provisioning and consumption of APIs.
09-29-2017
In Other API Economy News: Browser Updates from Apple, Mozilla and More
The week is nearly finished and we bring you some of the stories we couldn't cover with a look at what is going on in the world of APIs including some new developments on the browser front from Apple and Firefox as well as a great demonstration of what can be build using the ArcGis JavaScript SDK.
08-31-2017
Why ProgrammableWeb Refers to a Javascript API as an SDK
When designing data models and schemas with an eye towards enabling consistent user experiences, sometimes you have to go a little bit against the grain. If Javascript-specific tooling for consuming APIs had to be listed with other language specific tooling, then we would have to call it an SDK.
08-18-2017
How to Hide API Keys When Building Web Apps On CodePen API University
If you've ever used CodePen to prototype your own web apps or to closely inspect and fork someone else's code, then you know that one thing CodePen can't do is hide the API keys of any APIs that your app consumes in the process of doing whatever your app does. But now, there's a workaround.
08-14-2017
In Other API Economy News: Amazon Greengrass IoT, Customize API Gateway Error Responses and More
We take you into the weekend with another edition of ProgrammableWeb's "In other API Economy News". Today we give you your fill of Amazon news including the general release of their Greengrass IoT service, the ability for API Gateway to allow for customization of error responses, and more.
06-09-2017
Getting Started with Google Cloud Functions API University
Serverless architectures have been gaining wide traction among developers over the last couple of years. This article is a technical tutorial on getting started with Google Cloud Functions, the serverless offering on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) which entered beta at the recent Cloud Next 2017.
06-05-2017
Java Leads the Way As Most Popular Language in ProgrammableWeb Directories
Which programming language is the most popular with developers? In the past we’ve looked to our directories to provide some insight into which language is most in demand. The recent growth of our SDK and Sample Source Code directories gives us an opportunity to take a fresh look at the data.
05-03-2017
Facebook Announces More Performant Version of React Framework
At F8 -- Facebook's annual developer conference -- the company's engineers announced a new version of React with a core designed to optimize the performance of applications that are written with the framework. The new core, React Fiber, is better at scheduling tasks based on what the user is doing.
04-19-2017
Google Offering Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval to Selected Web Developers
With well more than half of the Web's traffic now starting with a mobile device of some sort, Google is looking to keep the pressure on when it comes to improving the performance of mobile Web apps. So, now it's starting a certification program so developers can prove their proficiency to customers.
04-03-2017
How to Create a Restful API Using Node.js and MongoDB API University
This is the second installment in a three-part MEAN Stack Tutorial series by software engineer Adrian Mejia. It explains some of the underlying concepts, such as REST APIs and the MEAN stack, and shows followers how to install everything you need to create a simple REST API on Node.js and MongoDB.
11-05-2016
New Version of Clarifai API Actually Offers Developers Bespoke Machine Learning
With the latest version of its image recognition API, Clarifai is now offering developers a way to leverage the underlying engine's machine learning capabilities to build custom models so that what one organization looks for in an image can be very different from what another organization looks for.
10-10-2016
Daily API RoundUp: UN Humanitarian Response, Divvy, PeopleKeys, AccuZIP, H20Flint
Twenty One APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Transportation, Email, and Financial. Featured today are some smart city APIs: One for finding clean water in Flint, Michigan, and three more for use with the City of Chicago's bike sharing program.
09-13-2016