What are APIs? Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the tools which can be used by developers to perform specific tasks needed in their apps. We like to think about APIs as of the building blocks of applications. When you need to do something in your application, you can develop the component by yourself; however, if […]
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News Sentiment Analysis & Summarization (using the Bing News Search API & AylienText Analysis API)
Quick References Bing News Search API Aylien Text Analysis API In this article, we’ll go over how to use Bing News Search API with the Aylien Text Analysis API to perform News Summarization and Sentiment Analysis. Introduction Nowadays, APIs are an important part of the IT industry. The application programming interface is the way to […]
How to Validate Email Addresses in Google Sheets using Zero Bounce & RapidAPI [Tutorial]
Quick Links RapidAPI Google Sheets Plugin Zero Bounce API Video Transcript In this video I’m going to show you how to validate email addresses in Google sheets using the zero bounce API with the rapid API Google sheets plugin. Say you just created a prospecting list like the one right here and you generated an […]
Dropbox and TrueFace.ai Facial Recognition Security System [TUTORIAL]
Office security is always a concern that needs to be properly addressed, especially for tech companies. But there aren’t a lot of great solutions out there. Key cards are easy to lose. Fobs can be lost or stolen as well. Enter the power of APIs! This past week, I built an office security system using […]
Use APIs to Mail Invoices Programmatically [Rails API Tutorial]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
GIPHY and Twilio “Text a GIF” Project [API Smash]
One of the reasons that we built RapidAPI is to make it easier to call multiple APIs through one console. No more juggling multiple API libraries! We’re starting a series where we smash two APIs together to make a project. Today? We’re putting together GIPHY and Twilio to make “Text A GIF” script that texts someone a GIF based […]