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REST & SOAP API USAGE IN 2020
Monday, 27 April 2020
This infographic illustrates REST and SOAP API usage in 2020. In total 69% of the API’s consist of REST API’s. 23% are SOAP API’s. Moreover, the Twitter API is used the most often. About 15 billion API calls are made to the twitter API per day. Finally, this infographic show the growth of the amount
- Published in API, Company information
What is API: Application programming interface
Thursday, 23 April 2020
What is an API API stands for Application programming interface. To explain this concept I like to use a metaphor. Imagine going to your local bakery. At the counter you ask for the things that you want to buy. The guy at the counter will pack these items for you. You only get the specific
- Published in API, Company information, Device detection, geolocation, JavaScript
What is an IP address: concept & technology
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
IP-address is short for “Internet protocol address“. This “address” is your unique number to access the internet. Every device connected to the internet has an IP-address. This makes enables you to deliver a message to the right person. Just like sending a letter to your home address. However, your computer connects to the internet indirectly.
- Published in geolocation, IP-address
What is geolocation: History and use-cases
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
A brief history For already thousand of years people want to locate themselves. The Ancient Greeks used the positioning of the stars to discover their location. In 1935 Sir Robert watt developed the Radar system. During the second world war radar was used during to locate the opponent. In 1973, the USA launched the very first
- Published in geolocation, JavaScript
New: Geolocation detection API
Monday, 20 April 2020
Today we launched a new API for our platform: The IP-location API. With this Geolocation API the exact location of a user can be discovered. The API can be implemented to your website with one line of JavaScript code. When someone enters your website the user’s location, time, currency and IP information becomes available to
- Published in geolocation, JavaScript
New mobile devices March 2020
Wednesday, 04 March 2020
An overview of new mobile devices for March 2020. The user agent strings of mobile devices are displayed as well Xiaomi Poco X2 User Agent String:Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; POCO X2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.136 Mobile Safari/537.36 Display Camera ● 6.67 inches● 1080×2400 px● IPS LCD ● 4 Primary Cameras● 64 + 8 +
- Published in Device detection, new devices, User-Agent String
API with bash code in AWS Lambda and API gateway
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Amazon web services (AWS) is a powerful platform for almost every web service you can imagine. With AWS API Gateway and Lambda you are able to create REST API’s with ease! API gateway is used to create the API. Lambda lets you execute code when the API is invoked. This code can be in many
- Published in AWS
User Agent Strings popular Huawei devices
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Below you can find an overview of the user agent (UA) strings of popular Huawei devices. Huawei P30 Pro Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; VOG-L29) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.90 Mobile Safari/537.36 Huawei P30 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; ELE-L29) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.90 Mobile Safari/537.36 Huawei P20 Pro Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1; CLT-L29 Build/HUAWEICLT-L29) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
- Published in new devices, User-Agent String
User Agent strings popular Samsung devices
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Below you can find an overview of the User-Agent (UA) strings of Samsung’s popular devices. Samsung Galaxy S20 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; SM-G981B) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.162 Mobile Safari/537.36 Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; SM-N976V) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.89 Mobile Safari/537.36 Samsung Galaxy S10 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; SAMSUNG SM-G977N
- Published in User-Agent String
Samsung Galaxy S20, S20+ & S20 Ultra
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
On the 11th of February Samsung presented their new flagship phones for 2020. This year’s lineup consist of 3 new phones: Samsung Galaxy S20, S20+ and S20 ultra! The phones will be available from the 6th of March (US AU UAE) and on the 13th of March (EU). In this post you can read everything
- Published in Device detection, new devices
How to (precisely) detect the device model with JS
Sunday, 09 February 2020
In 2020 we live in a more personalised world than ever before. To make web pages transform to the personal needs of the user, information about the visiter is needed. As a data scientist and web developer I struggle a lot with gathering data about the visitors on my website. One of theses struggles is
- Published in Device detection, JavaScript