Insomnia is a REST API Client and Design tool. Insomnia Inso is a command-line tool for enabling automated testing and API management. Functional API testing is a main component. Some people don't like how much ram or disk space it uses. Let's review some top Insomnia API Client alternatives in these categories: Installation Type and User …
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Top 5 Best Postman Alternatives for API Testing
Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. They also support Automated Testing. You can write test scripts for your Postman API requests in JavaScript. But their pricing and documentation are very complex. This creates a need to look at some Postman alternatives for API Testing. It is difficult to fit all the Postman pricing …
Top 5 Best SoapUI Alternatives
SoapUI is an open-source API testing tool billed as the "World's Most Popular". It has a graphical interface that helps to build tests easily. But every feature described in the SoapUI documentation is like a teaser. Premium features get attention while free features pale in comparison. This is used to get people to pay for ReadyAPI (the paid …
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 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 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 …
Top 7 Best API Collaboration Tools
API Collaboration Tools - What are they? API (Application Programming Interface) collaboration tools allow you to develop and test APIs. A team within an organization can use these tools to work together. They provide API management, documentation, and testing resources for groups. In this article, we will review some of the top API …
How to Collaborate, Share, & Test Internal APIs
RapidAPI Teams for sharing APIs APIs are being used across many organizations today. They can be applied to separate data sources and the applications which use them. This article discusses sharing internal API documentation and testing APIs with your team. To do that we will walk through the following process: 1) Create an organization …
How to Verify SMS with the TeleSign API
When you get a new registration on your site you want to make sure it's a real person. That's the reason Captchas were invented, as well as email confirmations. A recent addition to the authentication mix is the ability to send a text message with a code. This code then has to be typed into a verification form. This is more reliable than email …
How to use a Proxy API with Javascript
How to use a Proxy API with JavaScript One of the benefits to site owners for having an API is the reduction of bandwidth used by scripts. But sometimes a popular website will not provide an API to their public data. In this case, if you still need their public data you may want to download it from a script. But the same website which does not …
How to use the Instagram API with Python
Instagram is a great way to share images and short videos with your friends. But it is designed for use on a phone. How can we capture Instagram feeds and put them on our website? If Python is not your preference you can read about how to use the Instagram API using PHP and Node.js. But if Python is your jam, follow along and you can learn …
How to Create a REST API using MongoDB
How to create a REST API using MongoDB In this article, we will create a MongoDB REST API. The data stored in the database will be proverbs. The sources will be from the book of that name as well as other well-known authors and thought leaders. The Proverbs API will pull a random proverb from the sources selected. There are six sources to …
How to Integrate External API in a WordPress Page
How to Integrate an External API in a WordPress Page In a previous post, we walked through an example of calling an external API from WordPress using a plugin. The plugin then populated a widget. This time we will create a custom page template that will show results from an API call. To change the WordPress theme we will create a child theme and …
Top 7 Best PHP API Frameworks for REST APIs
There are many PHP Frameworks, but not all are easy to learn. Also, not all PHP Frameworks enable easy REST API development. In this article, we will review the most popular PHP API Frameworks that are actively developed. Also, they are optimized for REST APIs or Microservices. Microservices and APIs work together to support complex systems. …
How to Perform Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Feeds
How can we use a sentiment analysis API to analyze twitter feeds? Politicians, CEOs, and other famous people use Twitter to share whatever is on their minds. Many use Twitter as a soapbox to push their ideas. Others use it to start public conversations. In light of this, we will use a sentiment analysis API to determine sentiment scores of …
