Wendell Santos
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Meta Introduces Reels API for Facebook
Meta announced the Facebook Reels API, a solution for sharing Reels to publicly available Facebook Pages from desktop or web applications. According to the company, the new API allows “3rd party platforms to directly enable a ‘share to reels’ feature…and then uploading at a later time to Facebook. → Read More
Hygraph Content Federation API Generally Available, Offers Many-to-Many CMS Approach
Hygraph, a federated content platform, has announced a new GraphQL based API that helps developers pull content from a variety of sources and use that content across multiple formats. This approach, called a federated content platform, offers a many-to-many CMS experience for developers. → Read More
Apple Announces Subscription Tiers For WeatherKit API
In conjunction with the release of iOS16 on Monday, Apple has announced that developers can now subscribe to new plans to get more WeatherKit API requests. This API is part of the transition from Dark Sky to Apple Weather and allows developers to access weather data for their apps. → Read More
Twitter Deprecating Developer Labs On Oct. 31
Twitter recently announced that it will be deprecating Twitter Developer Labs and all of the remaining Labs endpoints on October 31, 2022. The program was originally launched in 2019. The endpoints to be deprecated include the Labs Tweets and Users endpoints as well as the COVID-19 stream. → Read More
Traceable AI Adds API Security Testing Solution to its Platform
Traceable AI has announced the general availability of its API Security Testing solution as part of its API Security Platform. This testing ability is aimed at allowing API providers to test APIs for vulnerabilities, accuracy, reliability, and overall security while still in pre-production. → Read More
OpenAI Unveils Content Moderation Endpoint for its API
OpenAI recently announced a new content moderation endpoint on its API that can interpret user input and determine whether it is considered harmful based on GPT-based classifiers. The goal of the new tool is to ensure against possible misuse of the API and the company’s AI models. → Read More
Google Cross Device SDK Developer Preview for Android Now Available
Google launched the developer preview of the Cross device SDK for Android. The SDK contains APIs that focus on functionality such as allowing apps to discover nearby devices, enabling secure connections between authorized devices and extending an application’s UX across multiple devices. → Read More
Unlimint Launches Banking Service API
Unlimint has launched its Banking as a Service product, called Unlimint Banking and Cards (UBC) along with an API. UBC is meant to be a one-stop payment accounts and card issuing and processing solution that allows companies to launch and embed digital payment products for their customers. → Read More
Qualia Launches API for Real Estate Companies to Scale Digital Title Capabilities
Qualia, a digital real estate closing platform, has released its API. The Qualia API allows real estate businesses to place and track title orders, and access order, accounting, and contact data on their files in order to build custom notifications and executive-level performance dashboards. → Read More
OpenAI Announces New Pricing Model for its API
OpenAI, the AI company behind the GPT-3 language model for advanced natural language processing, has announced that it will be lowering its pricing for the OpenAI API. The price change for the API, which provides access to all GPT-3 models, goes into effect on September 1st. → Read More
Google to Discontinue Cloud IoT Core Services
Google announced that in August 2023, it will be retiring its IoT services. Google Cloud IoT Core is a fully-managed service used for device connection and management that lets users ingest data from millions of globally dispersed devices as well as integrate with a number of Google’s tools. → Read More
EasyPost API Now Includes Carbon Offset Data
EasyPost, a multi-carrier shipping API provider, recently updated its API to include data that enables shippers to calculate the carbon emissions from parcel delivery on any given shipment and to additionally purchase carbon offsets to neutralize the carbon footprint from the shipment. → Read More
Twitter Launches Conversion API to Scale Performance Advertising
In an effort to help customers maximize ad spend, and boost campaign performance, Twitter has announced an updated Conversion API along with a new and improved Twitter Pixel for website visitor tracking, and a new App Purchase Optimization process to help improve Twitter ads campaigns. → Read More
LunarCrush Launches API v3.0 for Tracking Cryptocurrencies
LunarCrush, a platform that collects, tracks, and analyzes social and market activity for thousands of cryptocurrencies and NFTs, has released its latest API, now in version 3.0. The API offers access to data for over 4,000 cryptocurrencies and more than 300 NFT collections. → Read More
GitHub Projects is Now Generally Available
Late last month GitHub announced the general availability of GitHub Projects powered by GitHub Issues. New features for the project planning and tracking tool were announced including updates for issue grouping and pivoting, metadata customization, charting, and improved automation. → Read More
Contrast Launches API Security Solution to Protect Against Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Contrast Security has announced added API security capabilities to its Contrast Secure Code Platform. The latest update addresses the full attack surface of APIs, including attacks that target the code-level API and can bypass its gateway, as well as vulnerabilities in the source code. → Read More
Verto Launches API for Forex Services and Cross-Border Payments
Verto has announced the launch of a new API that enables businesses to automate currency conversion, global pay-outs and beneficiary management. With the API, fintechs and financial institutions can customize their payment solutions and create their own FX and payment flows. → Read More
Xend Finance Unveils Crypto Payment API For Businesses
Xend Finance announced the launch of XendBridge, a payment API, and SwitchWallet, a free public wallet infrastructure.The launch of the two products adds to the company’s existing portfolio of products available to startups and businesses to access cryptocurrency payment and storage solutions. → Read More
Twitter API Keys Leaked by Over 3,200 Apps, Researchers Find
Singapore-based cybersecurity firm CloudSEK has uncovered a list of more than 3,200 mobile apps that are leaking Twitter API keys publicly, potentially allowing for the take over of user accounts. The researchers found 3,207 apps that were leaking valid Consumer Key and Consumer Secret API keys. → Read More
Netlify Announces Updates to Netlify Graph Plus Additional API Authentication Support
Netlify, a provider of web hosting infrastructure and automation technology, has announced updates to Netlify Graph, a GraphQL-powered solution that aims to make building with APIs faster and easier. The company also announced the addition of API Authentication support for two new services: → Read More