API Best Practices Blog
8 New API Consoles: Music and Weather APIs, with Spotify, Weather Underground, Rdio and More »
We've been adding a bunch of new API Consoles lately, and today we're excited to add a few more to the list! Come play with eight new API Consoles, with a special focus on APIs for music and weather. Make apps that can rock and roll with some of the top music APIs: Rdio, Spotify, Echonest and Rhapsody. Get weather data with Weather Underground and Yahoo Weather. We've also rolled out an API Console for Donors Choose - an amazing online charity that lets users donate to classrooms in need. And to expand on our list of social API Consoles, including Facebook, Twitter and Chatter, we've added the MySpace API.
Easily see the full surface area of the API, send and view request / response pairs, get past authentication quickly and drill into errors with these APIs and over 40 total on our API Providers page:
Rdio: Easily, legally access and play music across web and mobile.
Spotify: Explore Spotify's music catalog.
Echonest: Gain access to billions of data points about music.
Rhapsody: Access Rhapsody technologies and content, including metadata, search and music player.
MySpace: Create apps and games within the MySpace platform.
Donors Choose: Help classroom projects by integrating donation functionality.
Weather Underground: Integrate weather data into your app.
Yahoo Weather: Up-to-date weather information, including condition codes.
Got an API you want to see on Apigee? Email us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Usergrid is now part of Apigee »
I'm excited to announce that Usergrid is now part of Apigee.
Almost every mobile app needs back-end services to store and manage users, data and events. But powering mobile apps from the cloud is a hard problem, requiring a rich set of easy-to-use features for managing users, delivering applications objects and data, and analyzing usage and tracking key metrics.
Usergrid delivers the mobile app back-end APIs that developers need to manage data and users, reducing the effort and cost of developing a mobile application and letting app developers focus on the app experience.
Apigee now simplifies delivery of the full universe of APIs -- enterprise APIs, public APIs, and now with Usergrid, the core APIs that all mobile applications need.
And I am excited to combine the unique capabilities of Usergrid with Apigee's powerful API management infrastructure, which is already powering the mobile API's of large enterprise customers from AT&T to Netflix.
Usergrid is going to continue to be open source. Usergrid is currently a combination of GPL, AGPL, and Apache licensing and any changes we make will be to make it even easier to use our code in your projects and to make it easier for outside contributions to be incorporated. Stay tuned.
We're the most excited about finally being able to make Usergrid available as a cloud service, as we originally envisioned. Apigee is the world leader in making API's scale, and we're bringing that expertise to bear in making Usergrid the most secure, reliable, and powerful mobile cloud backend.
We should be ready to open up the service to the public by the end of Q1 and we'll be letting people in for early access - sign up at Usergrid to be notified.
Video demo: New updates to the API Console »
This week we released some updates to our Apigee API Console. Here is a short demo of:
- a new API provider page that lists all the API consoles
- a new API Resources page that lists all of the API operations
- UI changes to the Console itself (split screen, awesome bar, and more)
For now these updates are limited to just the Twitter console, but we'll soon roll them out more broadly.
We'd love your feedback on these changes - you can drop us a line at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Thanks!
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