Useful APIs for programmers

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Here is a list of some APIs I found very useful, I tried to organized them by category. I will be updating this list continually with more APIs and categories. Let me know if you have an API you think I should add to this list, or if you want me to cover a specific category.

APIs

Advertising

  • Apple iAd – Generate advertising revenue from your iOS app using iAd API.
  • Google AdSense – Free, flexible way to earn money from your websites, mobile sites, and site search results.
  • Amazon Mobile Ads – Monetize across platforms with multiple ad formats.
  • Facebook Marketing API – Manage ads and campaigns using the Facebook API.

Analytics

  • Clicky – Allows you to extract your web site’s traffic data into several formats, making it easy to integrate, analyze, or store your data within your own application.
  • Woopra – Real-time website analysis tool that targets customer engagement.
  • MixPanel – Analytics for mobile and web which helps you analyze the actions people take in your application.
  • IBM Digital Analytics – Web Analytics tool often used by e-commerce websites.
  • Open Web Analytics – Provides a way to request and work with your data outside of the OWA reporting interface.
  • Google Analytics – Google Analytics provides APIs to collect, configure, and report on user-interactions with your online content.
  • Amazon Mobile Analytics – Service for collecting, visualizing, and understanding app usage data at scale.
  • Flurry – Yahoo’s Flurry provides you with a number of APIs enabling you to export your data.
  • Parse – Download recent data to run your own custom analytics.
  • Chartie – Free web API that mines the relevant trend patterns from your signal.
  • Zoho Reports API – Build powerful reporting and analytical capabilities into your application.
  • Localytics – Interface to Localytics analytics platform.

Captcha

  • Google reCAPTCHA – ReCAPTCHA lets you embed a CAPTCHA in your web pages in order to protect them against spam and other types of automated abuse.

Check-In

Google

IoT

  • Zetta – An open source platform built on Node.js for creating IoT servers that run across geo-distributed computers and the cloud.
  • Temboo SDK – This platform acts as a layer on top of third-party APIs, using code snippets to trigger complex processes that run through their cloud platform.
  • Xively – Uses free and open libraries to let you connect different types of hardware, using a variety of languages to their cloud service.
  • ThingSpeak – “Internet of Things” application and API to store and retrieve data from things using HTTP over the Internet or via a Local Area Network.

Login Authentication

  • Facebook Login for Apps – Secure, fast, convenient way to login in your app/website.
  • Twitter Sign-in – Works on websites, iOS, mobile and desktop applications.
  • GitHub Authentication – Access to GitHub’s Authentication API.
  • LinkedIn – Make it convenient for your users to sign in with their professional identity.
  • Google Identity – Build an auth system that will grow with your business and reduce the friction of getting users into your app.
  • Instagram – Access to Instagram’s OAuth API.
  • PayPal – Enables your customers to sign in to your web site quickly and securely using their PayPal login credentials.

Maps

  • Google Maps API – Google Maps APIs are available for Android, iOS, web browsers and through HTTP web services. Clients can be found here.
  • Mapbox – Access to MapBox’s API.
  • Bing Maps – Bing Maps platform provides multiple API options for your application.
  • Amazon Maps API v2 – Add interactive 3D maps, graphics, and custom overlays to your Fire Tablet and Fire phone apps.
  • Scribble – The Scribble Maps API is a cross browser, mobile ready, HTML5/JavaScript, interactive map builder.

Social Media

  • Instagram – Search photos by location, user, tags, view trending photos, and make custom items.
  • Flickr – Search through user Flickr content, contacts, upload or replace photos.
  • Google+ – Enables apps to login to Google+ view connections, groups, posts, and contact information.
  • LinkedIn – Enables apps to connect to user accounts, data, connections,groups, communications, and social streams.
  • Facebook – For ads, games, payments, login, sharing stats, and user data.
  • Twitter – Enables an app to interact with most of Twitter’s functions.
  • Pinterest – Enables apps to view the most clicked-through or repinned Pins, view related posts, and user profiles.
  • Tumblr – Create new ways to use Tumblr with access to content, likes, followers, and drafts.
  • FourSquare – Access to FourSquare database and ability to interact with Foursquare users.
  • YouTube – Add YouTube functionality to your sites and apps.
  • Gravatar – Create profiles and avatars using this web service.
  • Weibo – Programmatic access to China’s most popular microblogging site.
  • DeviantArt – The largest social networking website for artists and art enthusiasts.
  • WeChat – WeChat is a social messaging application that works across different and multiple platform.
  • Whatsapp Document Interaction – If your application creates photos, videos or audio notes and you’d like your users to share these media using WhatsApp. #Limited
  • Snapchat – PHP library of Snapchat’s private API. #Private
  • GoodReads – Allows developers access to Goodreads data in order to help websites or applications that deal with books.
  • Telegram – The Telegram API allows you to build your own customized Telegram clients.
  • Twitch – The Twitch API enables you to develop your own applications using the rich feature set that Twitch provides.
  • Reddit – API to build clients, crawlers, scrapers, and browser extensions.
  • Zomato – Zomato APIs give you access to the freshest and most exhaustive information for over 1.5 million restaurants across 10,000 cities globally.
  • Delicious – Access to Delicious’s API.
  • Vimeo – Access to Vimeo’s API.
  • Daily Motion – Build applications centered around DailyMotion.
  • EventBrite – The Eventbrite Python SDK makes it trivial to interact with the Eventbrite API.
  • WordPress – Access to WordPress’ API.
  • Imgur – Imgur’s API exposes the entire Imgur infrastructure via a standardized programmatic interface.

Source Control

  • GitHub – Build real-world GitHub applications right from authentication, to manipulating results, to combining results with other service.
  • GitHub Gists – Access to GitHub’s Gists API.
  • SVN – Collection of modular libraries written in the C programming language.
  • Mercurial – Access to Mercurial’s API.

URL Shorteners

  • Bitly – Access to Bitly’s API.
  • Yourls – Generate or get existing short URLs, with sequential or custom keyword.
  • Readability – Shorten long URLs and deliver a great reading view with a single, unique URL using the Shortener API.

Tutorials

Credits

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