40 New APIs: Google Plus, Social Trip Planning, Foodspotting

Wendell Santos, September 18th, 2011

This week we had 40 new APIs added to our API directory including a social trip planning service, content sharing service, startup financing community, website video recording tool, food review and sharing service, and a mobile marketing service. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.


The Dish on Foodspotting’s Semi-Public API

Adam DuVander, September 12th, 2011

FoodspottingFood-sharing mobile photo app Foodspotting had an API since day one. Of course, every mobile app has an API, at least if it needs to store or retrieve non-trivial data. Most of those interfaces stay hidden away, private APIs with only that single, internal audience. Foodspotting, on the other hand, signed Zagat as an early partner and now also has OpenTable, among others, using its Foodspotting API. The company is not exactly making it widely available for any developer, though the documentation is public, planting it in a vast grey area that’s becoming increasingly common.


Once Slow to Expose Its API, Instagram Goes Real-time

Adam DuVander, February 24th, 2011

InstagramIt’s been a quick transition from app provider to API provider for photo-sharing Instagram and its Instagram API. Today the company launched a new Instagram Real-time API, which provides access to the site’s content via webhooks as photos are added that match pre-determined criteria.


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