Creating your own API can be a great way to build a business around data you’ve collected or a service you’ve created, or it can just be a fun personal project that allows you to learn a new skill. Here’s a list of 20 tutorials on how to create an API! This list has been […]
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Skyscanner Flight API: Incorporate Travel Data into Your App
Connect to API Last year, we wrote a blog post about the Google Flights API (QPX Express API). In that post, we highlighted what we love about the API, explained how to make an API call, and discussed some relevant project ideas. After hearing about the Google Flights API’s depreciation on April 10th, 2018, as […]
Build Amazing Chat Apps with These Chatbot APIs
Chatbots are popping up just about everywhere these days – on your smartphone, in your connected car, on many of the websites you visit. It’s hard not to get excited about chatbots when so many companies are using AI technologies and APIs to build such innovative and amazing chat apps. For example, researchers at Microsoft […]
Project Highlight: Explain & Send Screenshots Google Chrome Extension
Like most people who write for the internet, I find myself constantly taking screenshots. I hit the keyboard shortcut on my computer. I open the downloaded image in Preview. I add various arrows, text or shape annotations. I upload the edited image to Imgur or email to share. Done. I didn’t realize how much this […]
Add Authentication and Billing for Your API on Google Cloud Platform [Tutorial]
Did you know the API solutions market is projected to quadruple to a value of $660 million by 2020? It’s a good time to get your API up and running! In this tutorial, you will learn how to get your API ready and grab a piece of this rapidly expanding market. Today, we’ll talk about how to do […]
Add Authentication and Billing to Your API on AWS [Tutorial]
Deployment. Authentication. Pricing. Getting an API up and running is a huge project to take on, but using RapidAPI makes it that much easier. Today, we’ll talk about how to do the following with AWS and RapidAPI. Deployment: You need to get your API deployed on servers and publicly accessible by developers around the world. […]
Add Authentication and Billing for Your API on Heroku [Tutorial]
Say you build the next big API. You have your endpoints up and running and all the functionality is complete. But before developers can start using your API, there are three big tasks to look at: Deployment: You need to get your API deployed on servers and publicly accessible by developers around the world. Authentication: […]
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 […]
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 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 […]