Today we are welcoming CrunchBase API to the RapidAPI marketplace! CrunchBase is a global leading destination of data on the world’s most innovative companies. It has built a unique and scalable approach to data collection leveraging a strong community of contributors, the largest venture partner network, and in-house data teams armed with powerful …
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SendGrid API Joins the RapidAPI Marketplace
Today we are thrilled to welcome the SendGrid API to the RapidAPI marketplace! The Colorado-based user communications platform is responsible for sending billions of emails for some of the best and brightest companies in the world, and is now offering its best in class email API to the RapidAPI developer community. "SendGrid is extremely excited …
How to Create Your Own RESTful API (20+ Tutorials by Programming Language)
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 …
Best Dictionary APIs That You Should Be Using Right Now
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 …
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: …
RedisLabs Incident
We have been closely monitoring an issue with our servers for the past month. Over the past 30 days, we have been seeing a repeating issue where users were receiving 500 or 429 errors from our servers when making API requests. Upon further investigation, we learned that close to 0.2% of all requests hitting our servers resulted in an error during …
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 …
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 …