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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Microsoft Emotion and Spotify “Mood Music” Project [API Smash]
One of coolest things about APIs is seeing what you can build when you smash them together. We built a script that identifies an emotion from an image (with Microsoft's Emotion API), then recommends a musical playlist based on the emotion identified (using Spotify's Public API). We're calling it Mood Music after the team universally vetoed …
GIPHY and Twilio “Text a GIF” Project [API Smash]
Update: Twilio's official APIs are now available on RapidAPI. Be sure to check them out. One of the reasons that we built RapidAPI is to make it easier to call multiple APIs through one console. No more juggling multiple API libraries! We're starting a series where we smash two APIs together to make a project. Today? We're putting together …
