One of my earliest memories as a kid is walking into the Hamleys toy store. Every floor of that gigantic store was a sea of possibilities – and nowhere was more exciting than the LEGO section. The moment I stepped onto the LEGO floor my mind instantly started racing thinking about the rockets, castles, and huge animals you could build. Even as an …
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The Latest RapidAPI Marketplace Updates (May 2021)
Today the latest version of the RapidAPI Marketplace is live for all developers! We initially released this version as a public beta starting on April 15. This gave us the opportunity to test the new version with approximately 4,000 developers and identify any remaining issues before the broader release. The latest version addresses common …
Welcoming Paw to the RapidAPI Family!
I am excited to announce that we have joined forces with the team behind leading API design solution Paw and are adding it into the RapidAPI platform as RapidAPI Design. Together, we will offer a more tightly integrated workflow from designing and developing APIs with Paw, to testing and monitoring them with RapidAPI Testing, to sharing and …
Test APIs From Development to Deployment with RapidAPI Testing
We are excited to introduce RapidAPI Testing — a functional API testing solution for creating and managing comprehensive API tests from development to deployment. Tests can be run for any type of API (including REST, SOAP, and GraphQL). Why We Built RapidAPI Testing The growth of the RapidAPI Enterprise Hub has given our team the opportunity to …
5 Reasons Your Team Needs an Internal API Hub if You’re Using Microservices
When working with a microservice architecture, developers create many internal services and APIs to support their applications. However, these developer teams are often siloed or specialized, distributed across multiple office locations, and have different leadership — creating friction in using these internal APIs. Without a centralized hub to …
Series B Funding, Launching RapidAPI for Teams
We are excited to announce two big updates from RapidAPI today. First, raising our Series B, led by M12 — Microsoft’s Venture Fund — to help us continue to grow the RapidAPI community. Second, launching RapidAPI for Teams — a new capability allowing development teams to share and collaborate on internal APIs and services. Four years ago, we …
Deprecating the Mashape UI
As of February 11th, 2019, we will be deprecating the Mashape API marketplace UI (market.mashape.com), and will start redirecting visitors to the newer RapidAPI Marketplace. This change will not affect your applications and APIs, which are already available on RapidAPI.com. Almost 2 years ago, we announced the acquisition of the Mashape …
Introducing the Revamped RapidAPI
Revamped API Marketplace We are excited to introduce the new iteration of the RapidAPI API Hub. Based on 3 years of feedback from our developer community and API partners, we believe this release will help developers discover and connect to APIs faster and more easily than before. At RapidAPI, our mission is to empower developers to create …
The Top 5 OCR APIs & Software by Accuracy, Price & Capabilities
What is OCR? OCR - Optical Character Recognition - is a useful machine vision capability. OCR lets you recognize and extract text from images, so that it can be further processed/stored. This is very useful for processing scans/pictures of text - for instance, when working with invoices, scanned forms and signage. We’ve looked at several APIs …
8,000 APIs, half a million developers and new funding news, or what kept us busy in the past 18 months!
We’re excited to announce RapidAPI’s Series A Round. This is a big milestone in growing our developer community, letting more developers find, connect and manage APIs. 18 months ago, we partnered with the incredible team at Andreessen Horowitz. Together, we set out to create a better way for developers to consume & distribute APIs. With this …
RedisLabs Incident
We have been closely monitoring an issue with our servers for the past month. Over the past 30 days, we have been seeing a repeating issue where users were receiving 500 or 429 errors from our servers when making API requests. Upon further investigation, we learned that close to 0.2% of all requests hitting our servers resulted in an error during …
RapidAPI and Mashape API Marketplace Join Forces
In RapidAPI’s launch blog post back in November 2016, I outlined RapidAPI’s mission and plan: to connect all the software in the world by helping developers find and consume APIs more easily. Today, Mashape’s API marketplace is merging into RapidAPI to form the world’s largest API hub. Developers can now find, test and connect to over 7,500 APIs in …
TUTORIAL: Verify Addresses with the Streetlayer API
A street address is one type of data you don’t want to get wrong. Whether you’re building an app for mailing, shipping or legal purposes, getting an address right is integral to having your product, you know, delivered. Having an invalid (or incorrectly typed) address could cause delays and annoyance for your app’s users, and cost you a lot of …
Israeli Queues: Exploring a Bizarre Data Structure
This morning, I stumbled upon a data structure called an Israeli Queue. As I’m flying to Israel tomorrow, I had to check it out. It turns out that the Israeli queue data structure isn’t just a punny data structure, it’s a useful one too. Israel is notorious for extremely unorganized queues or lines. I can say that--I’m from there. Because …
How Mark Zuckerberg Proved AI is All About APIs
This week, Mark Zuckerberg published the results of his 2016 project - building a real world Jarvis. This AI-based personal assistant gets commands from Zuck, and in turn, operates certain parts of his home. Here’s a video he posted (with a special voice actor) showing Jarvis’ functionalities. In a Facebook post, Mark described how his …
