Ruby on Rails - August 2015

List of APIs (Your Mileage May Vary)

API Search Engine: http://www.publicapis.com/ Durham Data Sets: https://opendurham.nc.gov/page/home/

Social APIs

• connect to social APIs with http://adodson.com/hello.js/#install
• meetup - http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/
• klout - https://klout.com/s/developers/v2
• twitter - https://dev.twitter.com/
• twitter “intents” (put interactive widgets on your page and have someone tweet/reply to you via twitter) - https://dev.twitter.com/docs/intents
• twitter for websites (follow button, embed tweets on a page) - https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tfw
• REST API (uses OAuth) - https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1
• facebook - https://developers.facebook.com/
• linkedin - https://developer.linkedin.com/apis
• foursquare - https://developer.foursquare.com/
• yelp - http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/search_api
• github - https://developer.github.com/v3/

Food-related APIs

• Yummly - https://developer.yummly.com/

Government and Civil APIs

• Capitol Words - http://capitolwords.org/term/code/?search=1
• CDC - https://data.cdc.gov/ and http://wonder.cdc.gov/
• Federal Data.gov project - https://www.data.gov/developers/apis
• Sunlight Foundation - http://sunlightfoundation.com/api/

Weather APIs

• Weather Underground - http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api
• Forecast.io - https://developer.forecast.io/

Google APIs

• Using the Google SDK (a .js file) may be necessary and the easiest way to get started with Google APIs
• • https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/javascript/start/start-js
• • https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/
• maps, directions, geocoder, places, etc - https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/
• feed - https://developers.google.com/feed/v1/devguide
• plus - https://developers.google.com/+/web/
• static maps - just a url for an image, e.g.: http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=Brooklyn+Bridge,New+York,NY&zoom=13&size=600x300&maptype=roadmap&markers=color:blue%7Clabel:S%7C40.702147,-74.015794&markers=color:green%7Clabel:G%7C40.711614,-74.012318&markers=color:red%7Clabel:C%7C40.718217,-73.998284
• streetview api - again just a url, e.g.: http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=400x400&location=40.720032,-73.988354&fov=90&heading=235&pitch=10
• tasks - https://developers.google.com/google-apps/tasks/v1/reference/tasks/update
• Google custom search engine - https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/overview

Music and Video APIs

• Spotify - https://developer.spotify.com/
• Soundcloud - https://developers.soundcloud.com/
• Deezer - http://developers.deezer.com/
• Grooveshark - http://developers.grooveshark.com/
• Rdio - http://www.rdio.com/developers/
• YouTube - https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started
• Vimeo - https://developer.vimeo.com/
• BandsInTown - http://www.bandsintown.com/api/overview
• Dolby Audio - http://developer.dolby.com/

Image APIs

• Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/services/api/
• PlaceKitten - http://placekitten.com/
• PlaceBacn - http://placebacn.com/
• LoremPixel - http://lorempixel.com/

File and Data Storage APIs

• Dropbox - https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore
• also, embeddable JS widgets on your page -> https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins
• AWS - http://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-browser/
• Firebase - https://www.firebase.com/how-it-works.html
• User Auth with Firebase - http://jsfiddle.net/firebase/a221m6pb/
• Parse - https://parse.com/docs/js_guide#javascript_guide - https://parse.com/downloads/javascript/parse-1.2.19.js
• Meteor (has a deploy tool just like heroku, comes with front end and back end code) - http://docs.meteor.com/#top

Payments, Credit Card Processing, and Shopping Carts

• Stripe - https://stripe.com/docs/api - https://stripe.com/docs/stripe.js
• Braintree - https://developers.braintreepayments.com/javascript+node/start/overview
• Paypal - https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/
• Snipcart - https://snipcart.com/
• Gumroad - “Buy button right on your site” - https://gumroad.com/overlay
• also, embed a product widget right on site - https://gumroad.com/embed
• https://gumroad.com/api
• Helium - https://gethelium.com/

Retail

• BestBuy - https://developer.bestbuy.com/

Other / HackerNews / Startup-y APIs

• Producthunt - https://github.com/karan/Hook
• Trello - https://trello.com/docs/
• Wunderlist - https://developer.wunderlist.com/documentation/tools/wunderlist.js
• HackerNews - http://api.ihackernews.com/
• https://github.com/HackerNews/API
• Track Ships / Vessels - http://www.fleetmon.com/faq/public_api
• Wikipedia - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
• Untappd - https://untappd.com/api/docs
• BreweryDB - http://www.brewerydb.com/developers
• 23andme - https://api.23andme.com/
• NYT - http://developer.nytimes.com/docs
• NPR - http://dev.npr.org/
• EasyPost - Shipping integration and postage ordering with FedEx/UPS/USPS/DHL - https://www.easypost.com/
• Wit - natural language processing - http://labs.wit.ai/demo/index.html
• Nest - https://developer.nest.com/documentation/control
• FlightAware - http://flightaware.com/commercial/flightxml/
• IMDB / OMDB - http://www.omdbapi.com/
• Rotten Tomatoes - http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/docs/read/JSON
• Hipchat API - https://www.hipchat.com/docs/apiv2
• Zapier - https://zapier.com/developer/documentation/getting-started/
• Evernote - https://dev.evernote.com/doc/
• Marvel - http://developer.marvel.com/docs

Dictionary / Words / Thesaurus APIs

• DictionaryAPI - http://dictionaryapi.com/ - example at http://whispering-island-7828.herokuapp.com/#magic

GIFs

• https://github.com/giphy/GiphyAPI

Real Estate APIs

• Trulia - http://developer.trulia.com/
• Zillow - http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/PropertyDetailsAPIOverview.htm
• http://www.getziptastic.com/

Job APIs

• USA jobs - http://search.digitalgov.gov/developer/jobs.html
• Authentic jobs - http://www.authenticjobs.com/api/documentation/
• possible XML API: http://www.indeed.com/jsp/apiinfo.jsp
• JS-based API for LinkedIn Jobs: https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/getting-started-javascript-api
• Stack Overflow XML feed: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/feed?searchTerm=javascript&location=tx&range=160&distanceUnits=Miles

Transportation APIs

• Uber - https://developer.uber.com/

Real Devices

• The LEAP Motion - https://www.leapmotion.com/ - https://developer.leapmotion.com/documentation/skeletal/javascript/index.html
• Oculus - http://www.oculus.com/dk2/ - https://github.com/Instrument/oculus-bridge
• Tessel - https://tessel.io/ - https://tessel.io/docs
• Nest - https://nest.com/ - https://developer.nest.com/documentation/control - https://developer.nest.com/documentation/alert