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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
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
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
Browsers: an overview – IE, Chrome, Firefox, and more
Sunday, 31 March 2019
Introduction We use the world wide web every day. To display websites we need browsers. Nowadays, we are able to choose between several browsers like Chrome, Safari, or Firefox. For websites it has become more important than ever to understand their users. More specifically, personalised webpages have become the standard of todays internet. Our device
- Published in browser detection
API demo: discover your device information
Sunday, 24 March 2019
To discover device information of your device we created a Javascript tool. The snippet above showes your device properties. More specifically, the demo above is based on a few lines of Javascript code. Based on the characteristics of your device the API finds your corresponding type. The following steps are performed to discover this information:
- Published in Device detection
Personalised page content – Device detection API
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
The era of data enabled web-developers to optimise the user experience dramatically. In the last year websites keep pushing to personalise their pages. For example, when you visit a clothing website it often knows whether you are a male or female. Accordingly, the site shows only the clothes of your gender. With the device detection
- Published in Device detection
JavaScript Device Detection – Features
Sunday, 24 February 2019
Last week we launched the device detection API. This API is a JavaScript device detection implementation to discover information about the users on your website. More specifically, you are able to detect the type of device, name of device, touchscreen information, and more. Additionally, it is possible to detect information about the user’s browser. In
- Published in Device detection
The API Company: grand opening
Tuesday, 12 February 2019
The API Company is started to create an unlimited amount of API’s for you! To celebrate this we started with a JavaScript API called “device detection“. In the future we are going to develop as much free API’s as possible and make them available to every web developer. So, if you have an idea about
- Published in Company information