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 vetoed …
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Yelp Fusion API Profile: Pull Local Business Data
Yelp currently has over 115 million reviews. Even better? You can access them programmatically. Today, we're profiling Yelp's Fusion API in our #12DaysOfAPIs series. We talked to the API tech lead, Tomer Elmalem, to get the inside scoop. Connect to API …
GitHub API Profile: Automate Your GitHub Workflow
We're wrapping up our #12DaysOfAPIs series! Today, we're highlighting every developer's favorite tool, GitHub. …
Twilio API Profile: Add Voice Calls and Messaging to Your App
Update: Twilio's official APIs are now available on RapidAPI. Be sure to check them out. It’s the new year! Why not kick 2017 off with a side project? We’re wrapping up our #12DaysOfAPIs series that profile cool APIs to test. Today, we’re covering Twilio’s primary messaging and voice call API. Related: How to use the Twilio SMS API with Ruby …
Google Flights API: Incorporate Travel Data into Your App
As of April 10, 2018, Google Flights API is now deprecated. Consider using Skyscanner Flights API instead (qpx express api alternative) as your travel api provider. Connect to API This edition of #12DaysOfAPIs, we're profiling the Google Flights API! Read on to learn how to add in-flight search into your script or start …
How To Use the OneSignal API to Add Push Notifications to your App
We're back with 12 Days of APIs! Today, we're profiling One Signal's push notification API with some help from co-founder and CEO George Deglin. Read on for more info or jump straight to the package page to start making calls! …
How To Use the Spotify API: Surf a Giant Musical Database
Need a side project for the new year? We've got #12DaysOfAPIs to give your project inspiration. Today, we're highlighting Spotify's Public API and what you can build with it. Read on or go straight to the Spotify package page to get started. …
NASA API Profile: Explore the Cosmos with Code
Welcome back to #12DaysOfAPIs! Today, we're blasting off with the NASA API. What you can do with the NASA API We can pretty all much agree, space is awesome. Navigating the all of NASA's APIs though is a little tricky. According to Programmable Web, NASA has 62 (!!) public APIs. While NASA's API developer portal and articles like …
Lob API Profile: Send Physical Mail Programmatically
We're back with #12DaysOfAPIs, our series to help you get inspired for a side project this holiday season. Today, we're talking about the Lob API (direct mail automation) with Growth Engineer Shrav Mehta. Ok, so what is the Lob API? Lob is an API company that lets you send physical mail programmatically and at scale. That means that you …
GIPHY API Profile: Make Your Project More Fun with GIFs
We'll be the first to admit, we love a good GIF. Who doesn't? For this 12 Days of APIs profile, we talked to Product Engineer Tim Frietas to learn more about the GIPHY API so awesome. Fair warning, there are plenty of GIFs ahead. We couldn't resist :) So, why is the internet obsessed with GIFs? While there are other content forms that can …
Square API Profile: Online Transactions With Less Liability
There's no better time of year than the holiday break to work on a side project. We're writing up profiles of APIs over the next 12 days so you can get inspired. Today, we're highlighting Square's eCommerce API! There's a lot of eCommerce APIs out there, but we talked to Developer Evangelist Tristan Sokol on what makes Square unique. Read …
Postmates API Profile: Add Door-to-Door Delivery to Your App
We've said it once, we'll say it again: there are a LOT of cool APIs out there. That's why we're starting a series this holiday season dedicated to exploring some of our favorite APIs. We're calling it....12 days of APIs! To kick things off, we're profiling delivery service, Postmates. We spoke to Postmates' Partner Engineer Andrew Mager and …
GIPHY and Twilio “Text a GIF” Project [API Smash]
Update: Twilio's official APIs are now available on RapidAPI. Be sure to check them out. 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 …
Project Highlight: SaveURPlanet Uses APIs to Calculate Carbon Footprint
Climate change is a serious issue on a lot of people's minds these days. But we can't all pull a Leonardo DiCaprio and make a record-breaking documentary on the subject. How does an everyday person make a difference? Enter SaveUrPlanet. This app, built in just 24 hours at MLHPrime's Southwest Regional hackathon, measures a user's carbon …
Project Highlight: Contextual Billboards With APIs
Billboards, or out of home (OOH) advertising, generate more than $7.3 billion in ad revenue a year. What if developers could use APIs to make them a lot more relevant? Today, we're highlighting Karunanidhi Devanidhi and Ganeshbabu Thavasimuthu for their HackTX project around contextual billboards. To better visualize their project, imagine this …