Notification APIs# Notification API
## About Notification APIs
The marketing team needs to continually remind potential consumers and active consumers about their products and services. Launch of new products and promotions need robust campaigns, and push notifications is a great technique.
Notifications are short messages that inform the masses about product offers or approaching deadlines. The effectiveness of reports has its foundation on the timing for maximum customer engagements. Sending notification texts at wee hours may offend consumers and harm your business.
## About Notification APIs
Due to the number of customers, automated timing and the best message for the notifications there is need for notification API. Notification APIs are interfaces built from commands that instruct the application to send push messages when the application is inactive.
## How notification APIs works
Notification API uses a set of functions that are programmed by the developer using a specific programming language. Ordinarily, the developer engages a preferred API platform and requests for a key. The API key validates the users and checks whether they have the right permissions to access all the suggestions.
The user then defines the notifications' parameters and the appropriate triggers for the pop-up of the messages. Most APIs use the REST method in formulations of the requests and responses.
When clients use their gadgets, the API responds to the appropriate triggers such as a mouse, keyboard, and touchscreen actions. A pop-up alert message is displayed.
## Users
**Hobbyists** - Some people pursue hobbies for leisure, and they keep a record of when and where the activities happen. Such people benefit or use the APIs to get regular updates on the activities they love to participate in and if other people are interested in joining them.
**Learning Institutions** - An institution would not function if there were no communication between the staff and students. The APIs are mostly applicable in the student portal and sending of mass text messages. The people in an institution need to communicate about safety, learning schedules, payment balances, upcoming events, changes in lecture room arrangements, and important term dates.
**Businesses and Websites** - As a business and website owner or manager, you need to stay on top of your game. Regular communication with clients is among the top strategies to use to achieve success. The APIs can be useful in dispatching bulk messages to clients to pitch to them, alert them of a new product, and get feedback from them.
## Benefits
- One can receive real-time alerts.
- Useful in creating notification applications
- Consumer engagement.
## Expectation
The need to send information and receive feedback grows by the day and notification APIs will continue dominating the online world. The use of these APIs will greatly improve communication
Examples of free APIs in this category include Botdelive API, Messente API, PubNub Network, LINE Messaging, Inteltech SMS, and Afilnet SMS.
## Best Notification APIs
1. [Twilio SMS API](https://rapidapi.com/twilio/api/twilio-sms)
2. [SMS API](https://rapidapi.com/smsapi/api/smsapi-com3)
3. [Afilnet SMS](https://rapidapi.com/linkses/api/afilnet-sms)
4. [Quick Easy SMS](https://rapidapi.com/JayemithLLC/api/quick-easy-sms)
5. [Nexmo SMS Messaging](https://rapidapi.com/nexmo/api/nexmo-sms-messaging)
6. [Maytapi Whatsapp](https://rapidapi.com/maytapi/api/maytapi-whatsapp)
7. [Messages](https://rapidapi.com/ajith/api/messages)
8. [SMS77io](https://rapidapi.com/sms77io-sms77io-default/api/sms77io)
## Notification API SDKs
All Notification APIs are supported and made available in [multiple developer programming languages and SDKs](https://docs.rapidapi.com/v2.0/docs/getting-started-with-rapidapi-sdks) including:
1. Node.js
2. PHP
3. Python
4. Ruby
5. Objective-C
6. Java (Android)
7. C# (.NET)
8. cURL
Just select your preference from any API endpoints page.
[Sign up today for free on RapidAPI](https://rapidapi.com/signup) to begin using Notification APIs!
Copa America 2019 Live Scores API allows to retrieve matches results, scorers, lineups, substitutes, events, statistics, odds and much more all with live updates even with push notifications.
Messente group messaging platform provides an HTTP-based PushSMS interface additionally to the web-based message sending tools. In order to use the HTTP-based interface please activate your API account on the Messente web page.
The PubNub Network makes Real-time Communications Simple with an easy API. Two Functions: Send/Receive (Publish/Subscribe). We provide a web-scale API for businesses to build scalable Data Push communication apps on Mobile, Tablet and Web. Bidirectional JSON. Ask for commit access - via Twitter: @pubnub - via IRC: #pubnub on FreeNode
World Cup 2018 Live Scores API allows to retrieve matches results, scorers, lineups, substitutes, events, statistics, odds and much more all with live updates even with push notifications.
LINE Messaging API lets you develop two-way communication between your service and LINE users. Push and reply messages Push messages are messages that your bot can send to users at any time. Reply messages are messages that your bot sends in response to users' messages. 1-on-1 and group chats Send messages not only to users who have added your bot as a friend but also in group chats that your bot has been added to.
Unlock an endless stream of inspiration with our Messages API. Choose from a variety of categories, including Love, Friendship, Good Morning, Good Night, Funny, Birthday, Sad, Sweet, and Random, to access over 20,000 carefully curated messages from our database. Whether you're looking for a heartfelt quote or a funny pick-me-up, our API has you covered.
Intelligent Technologies SMS API. Allows sending and receiving of SMS messages. An account is required. Sign up for free at http://inteltech.com.au
Send messages to any country in the world.
Jeannie (Voice Actions) is a virtual assistant with over three million downloads, now also available via API.
The objective of this service is to provide you and your robot with the smartest response to any natural language question, just like Siri.
Jeannie API provides an interface to the standard functions that users demand of modern voice assistants, like chatting, controlling your devices, looking up information, creating messages and much much more.
You can extend this API to your own needs.
It also provides useful metadata such as sentence analysis and entity extraction that goes beyond simple chatting and voice commands.
Several million users have already been in contact with this API: http://www.voice-actions.com/
Examples:
https://weannie.pannous.com/api?input=hi&login=test-user
https://ask.pannous.com/?input=hi
Complete documentation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dVG_B5Sc2x-fi1pN6iJJjfF1bJY6KEFzUqjOb8NsntI/edit