Developers of web mashups using video content now have some more powerful tools at their disposal. As announced this week, the YouTube team have overhauled their entire API. Rather than the older REST/XML-RPC API it’s now a member of the GData family of protocols. Our YouTube API profile has been updated accordingly. This is a [...]
Since our last best-of roundup there’s been a lot of new mashups listed here at PW. Good variety of APIs being used to develop some creative and useful applications:
Mosaickr: Lets you create mosaics of photos from Flickr. Each mosaic is one large image composed of small tile images.
MyToGo for Skype: Allows any phone to call [...]
One of this week’s new API listings is the HeyWatch API. This video encoding service lets you encode videos for a wide variety of formats and they now offer a REST-based interface that lets you do direct application integration. Videos can be uploaded directly from your local machine or accessed via sites like YouTube. The [...]
Back in May we reported on Astoria, Microsoft’s promising data services API designed to enable database programming “in the cloud” using a REST-style model. At the time you could only use their read-only examples but now you can create your own read-write database with it. Astoria program manager Mike Flasko announced this next piece of [...]
One of the more unique APIs listed here lately is the FlightAware API. It’s a commercial SOAP based API for live and historical flight data. As of the other day, the home page notes “Tracking 5,163 airborne aircraft with 49,337,567 total flights in the database. FlightAware has tracked 38,249 arrivals in the last 24 hours.” [...]
With this week’s addition of Google’s latest APIs we now have an even 500 APIs cataloged. Over the past two years this list has grown 10 fold from the original 50 we had listed in 2005. And connected to these are 2250 mashups built using hundreds of API combinations.
Using our Top APIs for Mashups pie [...]
If you’re a researcher Google has a couple new APIs for you and we’ve just listed them here: the Google Search API for Researchers and the Google Translate API. Google describes this search API as:
The University Research Program for Google Search is designed to give university faculty and their research teams high-volume programmatic access to [...]
Aren’t things supposed to slow down during the hazy, lazy dog days of August? Apparently not when it comes to new web APIs. The past few weeks has been one of the busiest, if not the busiest, stretches of new API listings we’ve ever seen. One new API listed every day this month.
Here are [...]
Following-up on this week’s earlier review of News, Social Media, and SMS APIs, here’s what else is newly listed: an API for book searching, an API for email management, and an API for managing social reviews.
Random House API: The book publisher Random House describes their API as “a set of programming tools that allow internet [...]
How do you keep track of the ever expanding API universe that, with nearly 500 APIs, is over 10 times larger than it was when ProgrammableWeb launched just two years ago? Try using ProgrammableWeb’s newest major feature: Markets. Markets is a set of new content areas that gives you a way to track APIs and [...]
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