As APIs continue to flourish and become indispensable tools for building modern software applications, interest in API monetization has skyrocketed. As a result, developers today are finding pots of gold by building and selling APIs. Here at Rapid, we’re excited to provide the “rainbow” where forward-thinking developers and businesses can …
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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 …
The Best NodeJS Frameworks for 2021
Choosing a framework for your NodeJS application can be tough. There are so many of them, with their own strengths and weaknesses. At the end of the day, the framework you choose will depend on your programming environment, and what you want your app to do. Some frameworks are lightweight, fast and don’t care about how you build your app. Others …
The Best Ruby Frameworks to Build a REST API
As Ruby has become more and more popular over the years, many web development frameworks have emerged. Some of them are highly focused on building whole websites (like Ruby on Rails), while others are more simple and to the point, like Sinatra. Both ends of the spectrum have advantages and disadvantages when it comes to creating what you …
How To Use the FullContact API for Application Building (with Examples) [Tutorial]
In the business world, it is very important to know as much as possible about your partners or counterparts. This might be useful in many cases, for example, in lead generation. FullContact - Enrich API is designed especially to help you with this, allowing to perform two similar tasks, person enrich (FullContact Person API) and company enrich …
SendGrid API Overview & How To Use The SendGrid API
What is SendGrid? Most online businesses depend on the quality of email delivery. Whether you have an online store, a social network or a news portal, you have to ensure that your notifications and transactional emails are delivered quickly and securely and are not classified as spam. SendGrid service accomplishes this task, and RapidAPI makes it …
API vs Library (What’s the Difference?)
In computer programming, terminologies are sometimes confusing to both expert developers and beginners. A lot of programmers have had a problem differentiating between an API and a Library. The most confusing part is when people tell you that an API is part of the library, whereas a library is not an API. Before you get more confused, …
How to Validate Email Addresses in Google Sheets using Zero Bounce & RapidAPI [Tutorial]
Quick Links RapidAPI Google Sheets Plugin Zero Bounce API Video Transcript In this video I'm going to show you how to validate email addresses in Google sheets using the zero bounce API with the rapid API Google sheets plugin. Say you just created a prospecting list like the one right here and you generated an email address for each …
Best API Management Tools & Solutions (2021)
Introduction Web-Based APIs It's been more than twenty years since Roy Fielding released a dissertation that described the REST API architecture1. During the following decade, companies began to see the utility of web APIs in large enterprises. Additionally, in the second half of the decade, tech giants opened large web-based APIs to the public. …
Top 7 Company Information & Data Enrichment APIs
Let's face it. There's not a lot of information you can get from just an email address or a phone number. To build a better prospect list or tailor that first outreach email, a little context can go a long way. That's why we've compiled this list of some of the top company information APIs. Read on! …
Project Highlight: Explain & Send Screenshots Google Chrome Extension
Like most people who write for the internet, I find myself constantly taking screenshots. I hit the keyboard shortcut on my computer. I open the downloaded image in Preview. I add various arrows, text or shape annotations. I upload the edited image to Imgur or email to share. Done. I didn't realize how much this inefficient process bothered me …
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 …
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 …
Use APIs to Mail Invoices Programmatically [Rails API Tutorial]
Emailed invoices are easy to ignore. But a physical letter? Mailed invoices can earn higher response rates--especially for overdue payments. One brand study reported that the majority (59%) of its customers failed to pay on first billing when emailed and needed additional reminders. Yikes. On the other hand, only 29% of those billed by direct mail …
Only One Woman in Top 100 Stack Overflow Accounts
There's been a lot of talk about women in tech these days. Headlines include both the repugnant and up-lifting. One the ugly side, we've all read about the sexual harassment and mistreatment at famous tech companies. On a more uplifting note, more campaigns and movies are celebrating women's contribution to tech--and inspiring future ladies to take …