Recently, RapidAPI officially launched our latest open-source project, RapidQL! With RapidQL, you can fetch, combine, and aggregate data from multiple APIs and databases all with a single request. This makes it much easier for you to build complex queries that utilize multiple data sources— all with a single query language! Today, we’re going to …
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Introducing RapidQL: Fetch, combine, and aggregate data from multiple APIs and databases in a single call
Have you ever wanted to grab an address, lookup the 10 nearest restaurants, and provide Uber price and ETAs — all in a single API call? What about fetching a list of users from a database and simultaneously doing email validation and phone number validation? Well now you can, with RapidQL, our recently launched open source project. And those …
How to Use the Cricket Live Scores API
What is the Cricket Live Scores API? The Cricket Live Scores API provides information on various amounts of cricket data including matches, partnerships, players, scorecards, series, teams, commentary and much more. The API gathers information from the following match's scores: ODI, T20, Test, BBL, IPL, and World Cup. Cricket Live Scores is …
Introducing the QuickSet Cloud API: Automatically Discover IoT Device Information
We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with Universal Electronics to launch the QuickSet Cloud Predictive Discovery API on RapidAPI. The QuickSet Cloud API utilizes the largest knowledge graph of devices to uniquely identify a device and its associated attributes such as device type, brand, model, etc. Identification can be done using a …
How To Use the ClimaCell Weather API to Outsmart the Weather
Today we are excited to announce that the ClimaCell Weather API is now available on RapidAPI! ClimaCell offers hyper-accurate weather data from any minute in the past with unprecedented resolution, through an easy to consume restful API. By partnering with RapidAPI, the Climacell API is now available to our entire community of developers to connect …
Creating an API with AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, and RapidAPI [Tutorial]
Lately, I’ve been really interested in serverless technology and the various use cases that would be ideal to use it for. I had a project come up that was going to be a perfect use case for it, so I decided to dive right in and learn all about AWS Lambda! Unfortunately, as I was getting started with the project, I couldn’t find very many good, up …
Welcoming the Nexmo SMS Verify & Number Insight APIs to RapidAPI
We’re welcoming two best in class authentication APIs from Nexmo to the RapidAPI Marketplace - the Verify API and Number Insight API. We’ll first cover the functionality of the Number Insight API, which allows users to retrieve intelligence on any phone number in the world. We’ll then cover the Verify API, which provides simple 2 step …
TeleSign SMS Verify Now Available on RapidAPI
A month ago we launched the TeleSign Phone ID and Score APIs, and today we are thrilled to announce that the TeleSign SMS Verify API has been added to the RapidAPI marketplace as well! The need to validate your users to prevent fraud and increase security for your users is extremely important. One way to increase your users’ security, and ensure …
CrunchBase API Joins RapidAPI Marketplace
Today we are welcoming CrunchBase API to the RapidAPI marketplace! CrunchBase is a global leading destination of data on the world’s most innovative companies. It has built a unique and scalable approach to data collection leveraging a strong community of contributors, the largest venture partner network, and in-house data teams armed with powerful …
SendGrid API Joins the RapidAPI Marketplace
Today we are thrilled to welcome the SendGrid API to the RapidAPI marketplace! The Colorado-based user communications platform is responsible for sending billions of emails for some of the best and brightest companies in the world, and is now offering its best in class email API to the RapidAPI developer community. "SendGrid is extremely excited …
How to Create Your Own RESTful API (20+ Tutorials by Programming Language)
Creating your own RESTful 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 design your own REST API! This list has been sorted by the programming language used in the …
Top 10 Facial Recognition APIs & Software of 2021
Honorable Mention OpenCV Although OpenCV isn't an API, it still deserves mention in this list. With over 3,000 optimized computer vision algorithms, there are a lot of options for how developers can make use of this open-source computer vision and machine learning library. Will you be using any of these APIs in your projects? Leave a comment …
Five APIs to Make Your Holiday Season Easier
The holiday season can be an extremely fun time, but it can also be an extremely stressful time for a number of different reasons. All of the gift-giving, traveling, and party planning can be a lot to handle. Thankfully, RapidAPI has some great APIs to make your holidays a little bit easier. In this blog we’ll cover APIs that will help you: …
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 the following with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and …
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. …