Creating your own RESTful API can be a great way to build a business around data you've collected or a service you've created, or it can just be a fun personal project that allows you to learn a new skill. Here’s a list of 20 tutorials on how to design your own REST API! This list has been sorted by the programming language used in the …
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Top Image & Animation APIs for Developers in 2018
What Are Animation APIs? The web animations API (not to be mistaken for Anime) lets developers synchronize elements and add timing changes to a Web page, creating new animations out of static images, GIFs/videos, or other page elements. With web animation APIs, developers have the opportunity to create eye-catching visuals that site visitors …
7 APIs Everyone in the Anime/Manga Industry Should Be Using
What Are Anime & Manga APIs RapidAPI's Anime & Manga APIs provide metadata around 1,000s of Anime/Manga titles to help developers embed, discover, and share Anime (Japanese animation) & Manga (Japanese comics) metadata with their applications. With these APIs, developers have the opportunity to help fans interact and discover new …
The Top 10 Mapping & Maps APIs (for Developers in 2018)
What are Mapping APIs? A web mapping API (Application Program Interface) allows you to communicate and integrate with existing map services, so you can develop a new application or expand the functionality of an existing one. These APIs usually include classes for maps and layers to make it easy to create, edit and display a map without needing …
What Developers Could Do With Identity Data APIs
The RapidAPI Marketplace includes a wide range of APIs. There’s APIs for building chatbots, accessing global weather data, building cryptocurrency apps- name any capability you need for your app and odds are there’s an API available that provides it. One of the categories of APIs that is sometimes overlooked is Identity Data APIs. There’s a wide …
8,000 APIs, half a million developers and new funding news, or what kept us busy in the past 18 months!
We’re excited to announce RapidAPI’s Series A Round. This is a big milestone in growing our developer community, letting more developers find, connect and manage APIs. 18 months ago, we partnered with the incredible team at Andreessen Horowitz. Together, we set out to create a better way for developers to consume & distribute APIs. With this …
Build Amazing Chat Apps with These Chatbot APIs
Chatbots are popping up just about everywhere these days – on your smartphone, in your connected car, on many of the websites you visit. It’s hard not to get excited about chatbots when so many companies are using AI technologies and APIs to build such innovative and amazing chat apps. For example, researchers at Microsoft are developing an …
Five APIs to Make Your Holiday Season Easier
The holiday season can be an extremely fun time, but it can also be an extremely stressful time for a number of different reasons. All of the gift-giving, traveling, and party planning can be a lot to handle. Thankfully, RapidAPI has some great APIs to make your holidays a little bit easier. In this blog we’ll cover APIs that will help you: …
What is the Difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain?
On December 7th, 2017, the value of one bitcoin surged to more than $16,000. Quite a feat for the first decentralized cryptocurrency, something that was once ridiculed by just about every financial institution and business. Interest in Bitcoin has skyrocketed in recent months, and it’s not just Bitcoin that’s generating a lot of buzz. Blockchain …
Add Authentication and Billing for Your API on Google Cloud Platform [Tutorial]
Did you know the API solutions market is projected to quadruple to a value of $660 million by 2020? It's a good time to get your API up and running! In this tutorial, you will learn how to get your API ready and grab a piece of this rapidly expanding market. Today, we’ll talk about how to do the following with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and …
Add Authentication and Billing to Your API on AWS [Tutorial]
Deployment. Authentication. Pricing. Getting an API up and running is a huge project to take on, but using RapidAPI makes it that much easier. Today, we’ll talk about how to do the following with AWS and RapidAPI. Deployment: You need to get your API deployed on servers and publicly accessible by developers around the world. …
Add Authentication and Billing for Your API on Heroku [Tutorial]
Say you build the next big API. You have your endpoints up and running and all the functionality is complete. But before developers can start using your API, there are three big tasks to look at: Deployment: You need to get your API deployed on servers and publicly accessible by developers around the world. Authentication: Unless you want …
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 …
Optimizing SEO for Single Page Applications with Isomorphic JavaScript
When we built RapidAPI, we wanted to reap the functional benefits of a single page application (SPA). However, we ran into some challenges with how search engines processed and indexed our website. We found a solution by using isomorphic JavaScript. Here's how we did it. Origins and Benefits of the SPA First, we want to fully explain the …