Have you ever seen how modern phones recognize the faces of their owners? Or maybe you are interested in the way phones or cameras can detect faces of people in real-time? This is possible due to computer vision (CV), a large subfield of machine learning. In this tutorial, we will show how to use computer vision inside your web application. The …
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How to Build an Automated Sales Pipeline with the Crunchbase API (Python)
It's no secret that data-driven decisions can make the sales processes much more efficient. Sales professionals rely on trusted data sources to scout for prospects. Crunchbase is one of the most trusted and extensive sources of data about companies. If the majority of your prospective customers reside on the Crunchbase database, then you are in …
How To Use the Alpha Vantage API with Python to Create a Stock Market Prediction App
Every day all around the globe money is changing hands in the hope of turning it into more and more money. The most popular vehicle? Stock markets. Stock markets used to be localized to countries or cities. Today, they are global intertwining networks of activity. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) trades by far the most volume. The New …
How to Create a Translation App (Google Translate API with Python & Flask)
Today we’re going to take a look at how you can use RapidAPI to get started on a project fast. With very little time invested up front, there is the potential to add a real wow factor to your latest text-based project. In particular, we’re going to look at setting up a text translation microservice that we can use to build in text translation into …
How To Capture & Record Search Results with the Google Search API
Is There a Google Search API? Google’s supremacy in search engines is so massive that people often wonder how to scrape data from Google search results. While scraping is not allowed as per their terms of use, Google does provide an alternative and legitimate way of capturing search results. If you hear yourself ask, “Is there a Google Search …
How to Create a Sports Betting Application with Python (using TheRundown API)
The sports industry is one of the most attractive and sturdy in entertainment. The level of attention to the top sports events is impressively high. That’s why sports betting is an exciting way to earn money. A simple spectator, who is familiar with the current team situation, can easily “invest” in them. Plus, gambling can make sports more …
How to Use the Booking.com API with Python
In the modern world, working with data is everything. The accessibility of data opens many doors for developers of various applications/services. Some services provide an interface to check whether the movie is good before going to the cinema. Others focus on business tasks like collecting, analyzing, processing and reusing data elsewhere. As …
How to use the API-Football API with Python
API-Football provides amazing coverage of football (soccer) teams, players, matches, predicted match results and more! You can see a complete list of all the possible endpoints in this high-level diagram they offer as a means of finding your footing, so to speak. As you can see above, there are two entry points for the logical flow of an …
Build Your Language Prowess with WordsAPI
WordsAPI, as the name suggests, is an API for the English language. It acts as a dictionary, a thesaurus, and a reference for parts of speech, related words, syllables, and more. It is a complete language guide packed into an API. In this blog post, we will leverage this API to build a word game. Yes, A Word Game! So for all you language …
How to use the Zillow API with Python (to Get Real Estate Insights)
Zillow is at the forefront of real estate APIs for creative developers. It offers unparalleled property information, as well as Zillow’s popular add-on data, such as the Zestimate. A Zestimate is Zillow’s best guess as to the value of a given property while considering a wealth of interrelated data, such as recent sale prices for comparable …
How To Use the Microsoft Computer Vision API (with Python) for Image Processing
In this blog post, we'll explain how to use the Microsoft Computer Vision API with Python. What is Microsoft Computer Vision API? The Microsoft Computer Vision API uses machine learning to classify images. It's not specifically geared for a complex task like facial recognition. It's more of a general-purpose API. Amazon, Google, IBM, and other …
Track Your Favorite NBA Team’s Performance with the NBA API (Python)
If you are a die-hard NBA fan then how about taking a closer look at your favorite team’s performance. With the NBA API hosted on RapidAPI, you can do that and more. The NBA API is a treasure trove of data. From seasons to leagues, and teams to players, it can spew out a lot of data for you to consume. So why not put this basketball sports API …
How to Build an API in Python (with Django)
Today in this tutorial, we’re going to cover the following: How to start a project in Django. How to deliver JSON to a requester from our new API. How to deploy our new Django API to Heroku. How to include our new API in the RapidAPI marketplace. View the Best Python APIs List Start a Django project First, we’re going to create …
How To Use IMDb API with Python To Power Your Movie Search App
If you are a movie buff, then you surely want to keep up with the upcoming movies, and their star cast. But if you are a movie trivia buff then you will need to get access to some online resources which has all the information about movies, their cast, crew, plots and other finer details. Googling for movies conjures up images of the IMDB …
How to Send SMS with Twilio (using Python & Flask)
Recently, industry-leading programmable communications provider Twilio partnered with RapidAPI in order to make their excellent services that much more accessible. Twilio’s services allow applications to programmatically make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, and perform other communication services via its RESTful …