Today in APIs : Fed {API}, Summarization API and 2 New APIs

Romin Irani, May 17th, 2013

Fed {API} to provide curated Government data sets. Stremor Corp releases Content Summarization API. Plus: Apigee launches a research and strategy organization for the app economy and 2 new APIs.


PW Interview: Jeh Daruwala CEO Yactraq API, Behavorial Targeting for videos

Ajay Ohri, May 13th, 2013

Here is an interview with Jeh Daruwala, CEO of Yactraq.com . Their work brings machine learning and natural language processing to the potentially blockbuster world of online videos for targeting of ads based on behaviour. Thus the ads are less spammy, much more relevant, and a win-win for audiences, advertisers and content channels.


466 Mapping APIs: Google Maps, Bing Maps and Foursquare

Kevin Sundstrom, April 30th, 2013

Google MapsOur API directory now includes 466 mapping APIs. The newest is the 1Map API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Google Maps API. We list an amazing 2454 Google Maps mashups.


PW Interview: Stephen Balaban of Lamda Labs on the Face Recognition API

Ajay Ohri, April 29th, 2013

This article features an interview with Stephen Balaban, founder of Lamda Labs, provider of the Face Recognition API. This API helps detect and classify people within photographs using machine learning.


PW Interview: Jacob Perkins, Text Processing API, NLP meets API

Ajay Ohri, April 10th, 2013

Here is an interview with Jacob Perkins, creator of text processing API and author of Python Text Processing with NLTK Cookbook. Jacob talks on why APIs help, on accuracy and domain context in sentiment analysis APIs, using Mashape for monetizing APIs and on enabling continued API availability to enterprise customers.


Mashape Launches Official Mashape API

Janet Wagner, April 5th, 2013

MashapeLast week, ProgrammableWeb reported that Spotify has added the Spotify Web API to Mashape, a popular cloud API marketplace. Mashape has now announced the launch of the official Mashape API which allows developers access to information from the near 2000 APIs available in the Mashape catalog.


Spotify Metadata API Now Available at Mashape

Janet Wagner, March 29th, 2013

SpotifySpotify has just added the Spotify Web API to Mashape, a popular marketplace where cloud APIs can be distributed, monetized, managed and consumed. Developers can use the Spotify API to search and display data such as albums, artists and music tracks from Spotify’s vast music database.


64 New APIs: Bitly, Goodzer, Clipped

Adam DuVander, January 27th, 2013

This week we had 64 new APIs added to our API directory including a voice messaging service, document and url summarization service, flight routing data service, casino game distribution platform, meme faces download service, random number generator and car information and pricing service. Below is more details on each of these new APIs.


API Spotlight: IDLight, Purlem, and Covert Tracking with GPSit

Matthew Scott, January 18th, 2013

XchangeonlineOf the many APIs we published this week, fifteen were highlighted on the blog by our team of writers. In this post, we’ll shine a spotlight on those fifteen, which included the The Xchangeonline API. The Xchangeonline API is a tool that provides developers with currency conversion and rounding functionalities that can be integrated into their applications. Developers simply request the URL, specifying the desired function, the amount, the current currency, the desired currency, and of course their API key. The service can convert between 100 different currencies worldwide with the option of more currencies given a more expensive plan.


63 Translation APIs: Bing, Google Translate and Google AJAX Language

Wendell Santos, January 15th, 2013

Our API directory now includes 63 translation APIs. The newest is the TEXTKING API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Bing API. We list 59 Bing mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of translation APIs.

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