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: Unless you want …
Mashape Proxy Outage September 7th, 2017
We recently experienced a system-wide outage that affected both developers and API providers. We have identified and solved the problem. While the issue is resolved now, we'd like to thank you again for your patience here and apologize again for the inconvenience. All systems should be set from here! If you have any additional issues, we are …
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 facial recognition. A facial recognition …
The Ultimate To-Do List: Adding Texting with Twilio [TUTORIAL Part 2]
Update: Twilio's official APIs are now available on RapidAPI. Be sure to check them out. Who else feels like their to-do list is a mile long? Sometimes, I look at mine and think… https://giphy.com/gifs/mrw-president-civil-LKTTAzGboJGzC Sure, there are plenty of articles out there on how to “get organized.” Being an engineer though, I’d …
Create the Ultimate Slack To-Do List [TUTORIAL]
Ever feel like your to-do list or reminder applications aren’t quite perfect or customizable? I was definitely feeling the pain recently. Finally, I decided to build a custom solution with Slack so I would always have access to my to-do list. This project couldn’t have come at a better time, because we recently launched the RapidAPI Webhooks …