Streaming

Postman Announces Support for gRPC in Beta

Postman has announced that it now supports gRPC in beta. Starting with v9.7.1, developers can test their gRPC APIs on the platform. Key features of this update include autocomplete while composing messages as a way of speeding up testing and the support for multiple streaming gRPC methods.

Brief

Wendell Santos

Testing, Streaming

01-17-2022

Twilio Adds New Streaming Capabilities Via Twilio Live APIs
Twilio

Twilio, a provider of cloud-communications products and services, has announced a new set of APIs that will enable embeddable live-streaming technology for voice and video. Twilio Live aims to provide cloud-based interactive voice and video experiences in real-time and at scale.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

Streaming, Video

07-14-2021

12 Top Music APIs for 2021
Internet Archive Last.fm
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SoundCloud
Blip.fm
Songkick
Bandsintown
Bandcamp
MusixMatch
7digital
Spotify Web
Apple Music

There are a wide range of music services on the internet that developers could tap into to create music applications, and there are hundreds of APIs available for developers to use for those applications. Here we highlight the most popular music APIs that are listed on ProgrammableWeb.

Brief

Joy Culbertson

Music, Lyrics, Marketplace

07-09-2021

Google Transcoder API Enables Direct to Consumer Media Streaming

Google announced a new Transcoder API preview. It empowers users to create consumer streaming formats for direct-to-consumer content. This is the first Google API in a series to come for the ddirect-to-consumer market that has exploded in recent years and accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brief

Eric Carter

Streaming, Content Delivery Network, Media

11-18-2020

Android 11 Developer Preview for Android TV Focuses on Privacy, Performance

Google has released an Android 11 Developer Preview for Android TV. The company says features focus on privacy, performance, accessibility, and connectivity. The idea is to help developers improve the experience for consumers seeking to get the most from their smart TVs and streaming devices.

News

Eric Zeman

Video, Streaming

06-29-2020

How to Build a Streaming API Using gRPC
API University

gRPC is an alternative architectural pattern to REST and GraphQL for providing and consuming APIs. It's becoming a popular way among many companies to create APIs intended to run at web-scale compared to the other architectures that often rely on data formatting standards such as JSON or XML.

How-To

Bob Reselman

API Education, API, Streaming

02-21-2020

Stream Announces a Native Android SDK, Brings Stream Chat Out of Beta

Stream, a provider offering a streaming API platform has announced the addition of the native Android SDK for both Java and Kotlin. The SDK allows developers to add scalable feeds, activity streams, and chat functionality to their applications. Stream now offers support for most major languages.

Brief

Wendell Santos

Streaming

08-29-2019

Axway Unveils AMPLIFY Streams for Event-Driven Data Streaming

Event-driven data streaming is gaining popularity and Axway, provider of a hybrid integration and content collaboration platform called AMPLIFY, has announced a new feature, AMPLIFY Streams, that allows any API to be turned into an event-driven data stream without server-side code.

Brief

Patricio Robles

Streaming, Data

06-06-2019

Google Provides New Tools for Live Streaming Video
Google Search Indexing

Earlier this week Google announced new tools that aim to make it easier for content providers to share when they are streaming live video. The announcement includes the addition of an update to the Indexing API and the addition of structured data for livestreams.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

Streaming, Search, Video

12-06-2018

Daily API RoundUp: Wowza, Mango Voice, StickerPop, Sakari
Periscope Data CSV StickerPop
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Companies House
Sakari Messaging
Wowza Streaming Cloud
Wowza Streaming Engine

Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Images, Messaging, and Analytics. Featured APIs today include the Sakari API for bulk messaging, the Companies House for UK company data, and the StickerPop API for app stickers. Here's a look at what is new.

Brief

Joy Culbertson

Images, Social, Streaming

09-29-2018

Mux Launches API for Live Streaming Video to Large Audiences
MUX Video

Mux has launched its Live Streaming API which makes it possible for developers to integrate Mux live streaming video capabilities with applications by adding only a few lines of code. Developers can use the API to build apps that support scalable live video streaming on mobile, desktop, and TV.

Brief

Janet Wagner

Streaming, Video

09-11-2018

Tunity Releases SDK for its TV Audio Streaming Technology

Tunity today announced the release of the Tunity SDK for Audio which allows for the implementation of white-labeled versions of its TV audio streaming technology. Tunity's streaming tech enables a business' customers the ability to hear live audio from muted televisions on their own devices.

Brief

Patricio Robles

Streaming, Audio, Media

08-07-2018

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.

Brief

Janet Wagner

Messaging, Data, Streaming

06-07-2018

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.

Research

Wendell Santos

Streaming, Financial, Messaging

05-24-2018

Why the Push/Streaming API Architectural Style is More Prominent Than Ever
API University

Today the conditions are more favorable than ever for organizations to consider implementing event-driven non-polling based data retrieval patterns in their APIs. This series aims to help you to better understand your options when it comes to push/streaming API architectural styles.

Analysis

David Berlind

Streaming

12-19-2017

Twitch Adds API Endpoints, Starts Rate Limit Increase Discussion

Twitch made API news this week with new endpoints and a developer invitation to discuss rate limit increases. The new endpoints allow developers to get and create clips, and retrieve the top games on Twitch. Twitch opened a dedicated email box specifically for fielding rate limit increase requests.

Brief

Eric Carter

Video, Games, Streaming

12-15-2017

When Push and Streaming APIs Are Just Too Hard To Do, Outsource Them
API University

The previous parts of this series helped you become familiar with various kinds of push technologies. Sometimes you will want to build your own push API from scratch. Other times that isn't the case and this article helps familiarize you with some of the turnkey push API infrastructure providers.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

Streaming, API Strategy

12-14-2017

Understanding the Less Popular Push/Streaming Protocols (XMPP, CoAP, MQTT, etc.)
API University

Even though Webhooks, PubSubHubbub, and WebSockets are really popular, they aren't the only options at your disposal. This part of the series provides overviews of a number of other push alternatives that you might find helpful for meeting the needs of your particular application.

Analysis

John Mueller

API Design, Streaming

12-11-2017

Facebook Adds Automated Encoder Configuration and Frame-Accurate Start Times to Live API

Facebook implemented new features for its Live API to answer common concerns voiced by the publishers. The automated encoder configuration ensures auto tweaks to quality settings throughout the stream, and the frame-accurate start times informs a publisher of the exact frame a video is live.

Brief

Eric Carter

Video, Streaming

09-15-2017

In Other API Economy News: Bullet Streaming Query Engine, Bot Defense for APIs and More
Facebook Graph

In today's look at what what going on in the world of APIs we discuss Yahoo's streaming data query engine, Bullet, which promises the ability to run 'look-forward' queries; Distil Networks released Bot Defense for API aimed at ensuring authorized users are access API servers and more.

Brief

Wendell Santos

Streaming, Security, Social

07-19-2017

What Is a WebSockets Push-Styled API and How Does It Work?
API University

Continuing our series on push technologies, part three looks at WebSockets and how they are appropriate for when you need a server-to-client real time interactive exchange. Part three discusses what you can do with WebSockets and how it differs from other push technologies.

Analysis

John Mueller

Streaming, API Design

04-20-2017

Kaltura Releases Mobile Video Player SDK Version 3.0
Kaltura

Kaltura has released a new version of its Mobile Video Player SDK for Android and iOS that is leaner and loads faster than the previous version (2.0) Developers can use the Kaltura Mobile Video Player SDK to embed the Kaltura Mobile Video Player into Android and iOS applications.

Brief

Janet Wagner

Video, Streaming

04-13-2017

What Is a PubSubHubbub Push-Styled API and How Does It Work?
API University

This is the second part of our series on push technologies. This article will look at PubSubHubbub, a closely related cousin to Webhooks. PubSubHubbubb is an API technology used to publish information on the Internet by pushing content instead of forcing clients to poll for it.

Analysis

John Mueller

Streaming, API Design, Publishing

04-03-2017

What is a Webhooks Push-Styled API and How Does It Work?
API University Stripe GitHub Repository Webhooks
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Slack Events Webhooks

This is the first part of our series on push technologies. This article will look at Webhooks, explaining what they are, how they work and why they are well suited to use cases where the underlying data is constantly refreshing. We will also look at examples of APIs that are supporting this style.

Analysis

Chris Wood

Webhooks, API Design, Streaming

03-28-2017

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Postman Announces Support for gRPC in Beta

Twilio Adds New Streaming Capabilities Via Twilio Live APIs
Twilio

12 Top Music APIs for 2021
Internet Archive Last.fm
More Related
Discogs
SoundCloud
Blip.fm
Songkick
Bandsintown
Bandcamp
MusixMatch
7digital
Spotify Web
Apple Music

Google Transcoder API Enables Direct to Consumer Media Streaming

Android 11 Developer Preview for Android TV Focuses on Privacy, Performance

How to Build a Streaming API Using gRPC
API University

Stream Announces a Native Android SDK, Brings Stream Chat Out of Beta

Top 10 Video APIs
Vimeo IVA Video
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Viddler
Rovi Cloud Services
Dailymotion
ImpossibleFX
TwitchTV
YouTube Data
Amazon Alexa Voice Service
IBM Cloud Video Player
IBM Cloud Video Channel

Axway Unveils AMPLIFY Streams for Event-Driven Data Streaming

Google Provides New Tools for Live Streaming Video
Google Search Indexing

Daily API RoundUp: Wowza, Mango Voice, StickerPop, Sakari
Periscope Data CSV StickerPop
More Related
Companies House
Sakari Messaging
Wowza Streaming Cloud
Wowza Streaming Engine

Mux Launches API for Live Streaming Video to Large Audiences
MUX Video

Tunity Releases SDK for its TV Audio Streaming Technology

Apache Pulsar 2.0 Release Now Available

What Does a Push/Streaming API Look Like?

Why the Push/Streaming API Architectural Style is More Prominent Than Ever
API University

Twitch Adds API Endpoints, Starts Rate Limit Increase Discussion

When Push and Streaming APIs Are Just Too Hard To Do, Outsource Them
API University

Understanding the Less Popular Push/Streaming Protocols (XMPP, CoAP, MQTT, etc.)
API University

Facebook Adds Automated Encoder Configuration and Frame-Accurate Start Times to Live API

In Other API Economy News: Bullet Streaming Query Engine, Bot Defense for APIs and More
Facebook Graph

What Is a WebSockets Push-Styled API and How Does It Work?
API University

Kaltura Releases Mobile Video Player SDK Version 3.0
Kaltura

What Is a PubSubHubbub Push-Styled API and How Does It Work?
API University

What is a Webhooks Push-Styled API and How Does It Work?
API University Stripe GitHub Repository Webhooks
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Slack Events Webhooks