Third party data make up a great deal of website content.
Maps, currency conversions, 140-character tweets and more are tied to APIs.
Most web developers will stick to the most widely popular
and used APIs to enhance a website. There are, however, a few hidden treasures
to be aware of. These can feed any website or custom mobile application
development with great data. Check out these 10 APIs and see how you can make
use of them in your web development plans.
REST Countries
This will get you a list of countries and their country
codes, capitals, currency, language and so much more.
OpenWeatherMap
Choose the free API version all the way up to an Enterprise
solution. Get the weather forecast including wind, barometer, precipitation,
cloud cover and more for a day or an entire week. This API gets its data from
40,000 weather stations.
Trendsmap
This API makes use of Twitter hashtags, giving you a live
map of all trending tweets. You can also get historical data, higher zoom
levels and an analysis for a fee.
Facebook APIs
These APIs work with Ads, Chat, and Credits. Some are no
longer supported, but there is also the backbone of the Facebook platform, which
is the Graph API. You can enable your app to read or write data to Facebook.
Twilio
This API is from the PaaS company and it enables you to
program the service APIs to make and receive phone calls and text messages.
SoapUI
This is a free open source platform that is among the best
API web testing tools you can get. Besides being open and free, it also allows
you to perform automated tests, functional tests, and load tests.
Additional features of this API tool include being able to
change the setup to suit the target environment. You can also create web method
results by assertions using this API tool.
Runscope
This is one API tool that offers users a web-based tool to
test APIs. You want a tool like this to make sure that your APIs are running
correctly and returning valid data. You also want to be sure it debugs itself
correctly and Runscope can help. It renders you with testing, monitoring, and
traffic debugging functions. There is no provision for any of the traffic
alerts.
Postman
This is a major Google Chrome plug-in. It is among the best
tools for API web development. It is quite a powerful tool for testing web
services.
Frisby.js
This is also a web API testing tool that the user can
implement to do various tests on API. You do not have to worry about dealing
with web interfaces. This is nothing more than a library and this library
relies completely on jasmine and node.js.
Users can write Java codes freely and organize surrounding environments.
Use it to perform tests and afterward, use it to prepare a setup.
Slack
Working with a website development
company means there will likely be lots of back and forth between clients
and developers. You might find your clients’ websites are in need of a
communication platform that brings together real-time messaging and message
archiving. Meet the Slack API: communication is in one place, and people can
create teams to actively communicate with one another.
Clearbit
APIs
are designed to meet an intended website or client’s business needs. That’s
exactly what Clearbit does. This API offers analysis, fraud prevention,
geolocation and background checks.
There are many APIs available to improve user experience and
custom web development depending on what functions a website needs. All it
takes is a little bit of research to identify the best APIs that will satisfy
all requirements.
0 comments:
Post a Comment