© 2021 - The API Company
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
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
JavaScript overview from A-to-Z
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Introduction The standard and most popular scripting language for the web is JavaScript. Similarly, the main part of our device detection API uses JS. Therefore, we figured is was time to give an overview of JavaScript in one of our blogpost. Thus, in this post we will describe the most import aspects of JavaScript. We
- Published in JavaScript
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
Google Tag Manager Device Detection – tutorial
Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Google Tag Manager – JavaScript cookie example As a web-developer I often used Google Tag Manager (GTM). With GTM it is easy to discover information about your visitors. With the device detection API it becomes ever more easier. Therefore, I wrote this google tag manager device detection tutorial for you. With GTM you can detect a dozen
- 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
Device detection for iPhone and iPad with JavaScript
Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Not possible to detect the type of iOS device with Javascript. Currently it is not possible for web developers to detect the type of iOS device with Javascript. In contrast to Android devices, Apple does not let you see whether visitors use an old iPhone 3G or the newest iPhone XS. However, if you want
- Published in Device detection, JavaScript
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