We all love a good laugh, and there’s nothing like a hilarious joke to brighten up your day. But what if you could have a never-ending supply of jokes at your fingertips, always on hand to make you laugh? Well, now you can, with the help of the Humor-Jokes-and-Memes API and Next.Js. In this article, we’ll show you how to create a jokes app using …
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International Women’s Day Interview: Brittany Perez (Director, Account Management)
In honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, RapidAPI interviewed four of our team members to learn about their experiences. We will be sharing their answers throughout the month! This is our first interview with Brittany Perez, RapidAPI's Director of Account Management. 1. What do you do at RapidAPI? I lead one of …
RapidAPI Wins 2022 DEVIES API Services Award
We’re excited to announce that RapidAPI Hub won a 2022 DEVIES Award in the API Services category. The DEVIES Awards recognize outstanding design, engineering, and innovation in developer technology across 25 categories. Award winners were selected from hundreds of nominations by an expert-led panel of the DevNetwork Advisory Board, based on …
The Top 50 Most Popular APIs
Updated January 2023 If you’re in the API development or software development space and are searching for the most popular and widely used APIs (application programming interfaces), or are looking for the APIs to integrate one of the best APIs into your website, software application, or mobile app, you’ve come to the right place. With over 14 …
Leverage Test Fragments to Modularize Your API Tests
Like most modern applications, RapidAPI Testing is built with an API layer connecting the backend logic with the front-end UI. In this infrastructure, the API layer becomes the critical point that ensures our Testing app is always available and working correctly. Recognizing how critical this API layer is, we use our own API Testing tool to not …
What Are Microservices?
Microservices definition explained When it comes to building applications, there are multiple parts that work together within its software. Microservice architecture, or microservices for short, is a structural approach to building applications in which the parts work independently, but together. The framework allows for each individual function …
What is Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)?
Integration. That’s one big chore that keeps the IT and application development teams busy throughout the day. In a growing enterprise, new business requirements and increasing reliance on third-party systems are a standard norm. Therefore, integrating different systems and applications is a never-ending challenge for these teams. Enterprise …
8 Common API Error Examples and Use Cases
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software interface that serves as a medium to connect computers and computer programs. APIs have become increasingly valuable that they generate a large portion of many companies’ revenue, including companies such as Google, Amazon, and Salesforce. Today, APIs have adopted useful features that have …
RapidAPI Testing GitHub Action now in the GitHub Marketplace
GitHub Actions need no introduction — it is a powerful, flexible CI/CD service that empowers developers to automate all of their software workflows. Over time, it has enabled developers to build amazing things, and significantly improved developers’ productivity. What’s great is that anyone can discover and utilize over 8,500 actions in the GitHub …
Mock API
What is a Mock API? With APIs, to mock is to copy or imitate. Mock APIs provide predefined API responses for client applications. For example, think of an application that has a database. We may want to create a mock API for that database that returns example data representations. Therefore, we can take a handful of common data objects from the …
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 …
Top 10+ Best Chatbot APIs & Alternatives (2022)
What Is A Chatbot API? These APIS and chatbot API alternatives serve to provide developers with a pre-existing chatbot server. These servers give developers access to specially designed chatbots for a variety of platforms. With these APIs, developers can utilize the pre-built chatbots and integrate them onto their platforms as they see …
Top 9 Best ESPN APIs & Alternatives (2022)
What is an ESPN API? An API is an online structure that connects an application to information on a server. An application makes a request to the API, and the API returns information from the server in JSON or XML format. A sports-centered API can share a broad range of data. Team or league APIs give access to current or historical statistics for …
Easily Discover and Test Kafka Topics with RapidAPI
Today we are excited to announce the beta launch of Kafka support on RapidAPI Marketplace and RapidAPI Enterprise Hub. RapidAPI is the first API platform to allow the discovery of Kafka clusters and topics, viewing of schemas, and testing/consuming of records from a browser. Development teams can now discover all available Kafka clusters/instances …
Top 10 Best Ridesharing Apps APIs & Alternatives (2022)
What is a Ridesharing Apps API? A ridesharing apps API is an application programming interface that allows developers to embed rideshare apps such as Uber, Bolt, or Lyft within their websites or applications. The API uses HTTPS request methods to send calls to the server to retrieve travel information between two locations, usually within or …