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RapidAPI and Mashape API Marketplace Join Forces
In RapidAPI’s launch blog post back in November 2016, I outlined RapidAPI’s mission and plan: to connect all the software in the world by helping developers find and consume APIs more easily. Today, Mashape’s API marketplace is merging into RapidAPI to form the world’s largest API hub. Developers can now find, test and connect to …
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TUTORIAL: Verify Addresses with the Streetlayer API
A street address is one type of data you don’t want to get wrong. Whether you’re building an app for mailing, shipping or legal purposes, getting an address right is integral to having your product, you know, delivered. Having an invalid (or incorrectly typed) address could cause delays and annoyance for your app’s users, and …
TUTORIAL: Use APIs to Mail Invoices Programmatically [Rails]
Emailed invoices are easy to ignore. But a physical letter? Mailed invoices can earn higher response rates–especially for overdue payments. One brand study reported that the majority (59%) of its customers failed to pay on first billing when emailed and needed additional reminders. Yikes. On the other hand, only 29% of those billed by direct …
in API Smash, Pop Culture
Only One Woman in Top 100 Stack Overflow Accounts
There’s been a lot of talk about women in tech these days. Headlines include both the repugnant and up-lifting. One the ugly side, we’ve all read about the sexual harassment and mistreatment at famous tech companies. On a more uplifting note, more campaigns and movies are celebrating women’s contribution to tech–and inspiring future ladies to take up STEM careers. …
in The Dev Room
Ruby, Go and C# Added to the Marketplace
We’ve got some exciting news to share! We’ve added three new languages to the marketplace (and we bet you can guess which ones by our headline). Now, you can export your code snippet in Ruby, Go and C# in addition to Node.JS, Python, PHP, Objective-C, Java and cURL. Read on for why we …
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Build an Alexa Flight Departure Time Skill [TUTORIAL]
We’ve all been there. You *think* your flight is on time. But sure enough, by the time you get to the airport, you find that it’s been delayed for hours. What if you could ask Alexa about your flight status before heading out the door? We built a skill that connects Alexa to the Laminar Flight …
in API Smash, Case Study
Microsoft Emotion and Spotify “Mood Music” Project [API Smash]
One of coolest things about APIs is seeing what you can build when you smash them together. We built a script that identifies an emotion from an image (with Microsoft’s Emotion API), then recommends a musical playlist based on the emotion identified (using Spotify’s Public API). We’re calling it Mood Music after the team universally …
in Hackathon
HackDavis Teams Shine with Google Translate Skill
This weekend, we were in Davis, California for the Hack Davis hackathon! This hackathon was centered around the idea of social good, and we were definitely feeling the warm and fuzzies. Here are two projects we were pretty impressed by:
in The Dev Room
Optimizing SEO for Single Page Applications with Isomorphic JavaScript
When we built RapidAPI, we wanted to reap the functional benefits of a single page application (SPA). However, we ran into some challenges with how search engines processed and indexed our website. We found a solution by using isomorphic JavaScript. Here’s how we did it. Origins and Benefits of the SPA First, we want to fully …
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Make Tech More Accessible with These 12 APIs
More and more hackathons today embrace themes like social good and accessibility–and we love it. It’s pretty amazing to watch developers code projects like SaveURPlanet, an app to measure your carbon footprint, or a robot that acts as a companion to seniors in nursing homes (seriously!). To help more hackers build cool projects like these, …
