With the increased demand for goods and services in different regions of the world, e-commerce has become an acceptable way for selling merchandise. With e-commerce, clients can save on time as they can quickly look up items through the convenience of their web browser and find items they like or want to purchase. With e-commerce APIs, it is also …
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How to Use the API Football API with Python, PHP, Ruby & Javascript Examples
Sports can elevate your mood and make you feel good. It allows people to bond with family and friends. Soccer football is one of the most famous and liked sports in the world. Technology makes it easier for people to watch the sport from the comfort of their homes. Further, some people make a living from soccer football through betting or …
How to Use the Newscatcher API with Python, PHP, Ruby & Javascript Examples
Getting accurate, relevant and timely information is important for our world today. With the rise of sophisticated technology, there is the emergence of fake news and deep fakes, which may be very confusing and misleading. Fortunately, today you can receive information on local and international news within your mobile app or desktop application …
How To Scrape Hashtags with Twitter API using Python
Twitter is a treasure trove of information. It is incredible how, despite the strict constraints on content length, people have embraced it and forged meaningful conversations with celebrities and strangers. However, if you decide to put Twitter to some smart use, it opens up more opportunities. All thanks to the Advanced Twitter search …
How to Test an API with Ruby
If you've read some of our articles on this site, you might've noticed some (if not all) skip writing tests for the code we publish. This is only because there's so much you can write in an article before it turns into an essay. It's important to note that writing tests for your code is extremely important. When you're just playing around with …
Intro To API Testing With RapidAPI
Introduction Are you involved in the development of an application that uses APIs to access and control the flow of data? Do you run your integration tests manually? Do you run integration tests? You do have formal tests, right? This tutorial will introduce you to API testing with RapidAPI's new Testing suite of tools. You will learn …
How to use Google Vision API with Python
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has many uses in the world today. Especially as we continue transitioning our communications from paper to digital forms. One common request for this technology is to solve captchas. Appropriate use for this is to automate the management of an account someone has online. For example, a seller wants to automate …
How To Use the eBay API with Python to Chart Product Prices
If you are an online shopaholic, then price comparison is always on top of your mind. But the manual process of doing this exercise is so tedious. You browse through multiple product listings across websites and keep eyeballing the price figures while switching browser tabs. There has to be a better way of doing it. With the help of Price …
Best Premium and Free Web Scraper Python Tools for Developers
With the growing technology trend in businesses, companies regularly require accurate data to make wise and informed business decisions. The Internet has made it possible to find information with simple search steps. However, the information a person or an organization may be looking for is among millions of data stored away in websites and …
How to build a REST API with Node.js (MongoDB & Express) – Part 2
In part one of this post, we covered the nuances of designing and building a REST API. We also covered the basic implementation of a demo REST API for the IPMon service with Node.js. In this post, we will enhance the IPMon implementation by adding a few more components to it. These additions will make it more robust for real-world …
How to use the Call of Duty API with Python
Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game franchise. Hundreds of millions of people have spent billions of hours playing the games. This is over the last couple of decades. My oldest son Kayin is the resident expert for online games at my house. He had one question when I spoke with him about Call of Duty. It was whether time spent playing …
How to build a REST API with Node.js – Part 1
Since its inception in 2009, Node.js has grown leaps and bounds in popularity. In parallel, the community has also contributed libraries and third-party packages. By virtue of its ability to run server-side logic, Node.js enjoys a lot of adoption for implementing REST APIs. In this blog post, we show you how to build a REST API using …
How to use the Google News API with Python
Google News is a service that we can use to take a pulse of a popular topic. Currently, there is a presidential election happening in the United States. With this event, we have an opportunity for news data analysis. In the realm of marketing, there is a concept of Effective Frequency. This refers to how many times you need to expose people to a …
How To Use the Kairos API With Ruby on Rails
Social media websites have made face recognition pretty much a mundane thing nowadays. Facebook, Google, and others can easily recognize your face in a picture, making it easy for you to categorize and find them, build albums, etc. Building such an algorithm is no easy feat, which is one of the reasons you can find some services that provide this …