We're back with #12DaysOfAPIs, our series to help you get inspired for a side project this holiday season. Today, we're talking about the Lob API (direct mail automation) with Growth Engineer Shrav Mehta. Ok, so what is the Lob API? Lob is an API company that lets you send physical mail programmatically and at scale. That means that you …
GIPHY API Profile: Make Your Project More Fun with GIFs
We'll be the first to admit, we love a good GIF. Who doesn't? For this 12 Days of APIs profile, we talked to Product Engineer Tim Frietas to learn more about the GIPHY API so awesome. Fair warning, there are plenty of GIFs ahead. We couldn't resist :) So, why is the internet obsessed with GIFs? While there are other content forms that can …
Square API Profile: Online Transactions With Less Liability
There's no better time of year than the holiday break to work on a side project. We're writing up profiles of APIs over the next 12 days so you can get inspired. Today, we're highlighting Square's eCommerce API! There's a lot of eCommerce APIs out there, but we talked to Developer Evangelist Tristan Sokol on what makes Square unique. Read …
Postmates API Profile: Add Door-to-Door Delivery to Your App
We've said it once, we'll say it again: there are a LOT of cool APIs out there. That's why we're starting a series this holiday season dedicated to exploring some of our favorite APIs. We're calling it....12 days of APIs! To kick things off, we're profiling delivery service, Postmates. We spoke to Postmates' Partner Engineer Andrew Mager and …
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 …
Why We Invested in Automation and QA Early
Most companies don't hire someone specifically for quality assurance until well after there's a working product. After all, isn't the whole point of a startup to "move fast and break things?" I was the fifth person to join RapidAPI and a big part of my job, even early on, was to make sure we deliver a high quality product. While I may be a …
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 …
How to Navigate and Connect to Instagram’s API [Tutorial]
This post may be a bit outdated. Try these instead: How to use the Instagram API with JavaScript How to use the Instagram API with PHP How to use the Instagram API with Python How to use the Instagram API with Ruby Instagram is pretty dang popular. View the Best Instagram APIs According to its press page, Instagram has over …
Java and Objective C Added to the Marketplace
Get excited, mobile developers! We've just added Java and Objective-C as languages to the marketplace. Now, when you export a code snippet, you can add it straight into your Android and iOS applications. Here's how it works. …
Project Highlight: SaveURPlanet Uses APIs to Calculate Carbon Footprint
Climate change is a serious issue on a lot of people's minds these days. But we can't all pull a Leonardo DiCaprio and make a record-breaking documentary on the subject. How does an everyday person make a difference? Enter SaveUrPlanet. This app, built in just 24 hours at MLHPrime's Southwest Regional hackathon, measures a user's carbon …
How to use the Clarifai API to Moderate NSFW Images and Video [Tutorial]
Let's face it: nudity is an inevitable part of the internet. Spend enough time online and you're bound to come across some raunchy imagery (whether you intend to or not!). If you're building an app or website, it's important to filter out any "not safe for work" (NSFW) images or video that may be uploaded. After all, no one likes a …
Why the Yarn Release Generated SO Much Buzz
If you’re a JavaScript programmer, you’ve heard something about Yarn these last few weeks. Yarn’s release generated a lot of conversation and activity very quickly. Just look at Node Source’s chart tracking the amount of activity on GitHub around Yarn the first three days it was out: Most tools don’t usually generate this much adoption and …
Rapid API Experiments: Replacing npm with Yarn
We recently installed Yarn as our dependency manager as an experiment. Despite the hype around Yarn, we weren’t expecting a dramatic difference in performance from npm. However, we saw the following results pretty much immediately. Reduced build time from 7 minutes to 2.5 minutes Installed with a single line of code No major bugs, no …
Easy Software Developer Halloween Costumes
It's always a drag to come up with fun costumes for Halloween. Especially if you're a developer and you're lazy. Luckily, we have some ideas that should be pretty painless to pull off. Click the images for the original source link. …
Project Highlight: Contextual Billboards With APIs
Billboards, or out of home (OOH) advertising, generate more than $7.3 billion in ad revenue a year. What if developers could use APIs to make them a lot more relevant? Today, we're highlighting Karunanidhi Devanidhi and Ganeshbabu Thavasimuthu for their HackTX project around contextual billboards. To better visualize their project, imagine this …