Announcing our #TVHACKFEST Mashape winner...
We would like to congratulate the PlayAlong team for winning the Mashape category at the recent TVHACKFEST Hackathon @ Moscone Center West hosted by Apps World! Here’s Jason Townes French talking...
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Are you ready for Music Hack Day SF 2013?
That’s right, we’re gearing up for another hackathon - Music Hack Day SF 2013(Photo courtesy of ThomasBonte Music Hack Day Flickr set)Music Hack Day is an international 24-hour event where programmers,...
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Introducing the "Consume with Mashape" button
You guys are gonna love this. We now have a Mashape embed button that you can use on your page to link back to your Mashape API profile page.We even let you customize the button color and icon!To get...
View ArticleA Cheesy Valentine API Story!
I tried to finish my homework that night. Physics was my cup of tea. It would have been a 5-minute endeavor to compute the gravitational attraction force between the Sun and Earth, but something...
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Mashape is featured in Gun.io
Gun.io, a site for developers looking to join awesome companies, has graciously given us the opportunity to guest post to educate developers about Mashape.You can find our first post here. If you’re a...
View ArticleMusicHackDay SF 2013 Recap
After an intense 24-hour coding stint that started 16th Feb for the MusicHackDay SF 2013 at the Tokbox office, we have picked our Mashape category winner, “Nightingale”, for mashing up a bunch of APIs...
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Important Changes to Mashape Authorization Keys
What?In our effort to improve the way keys are handled in Mashape, we have changed the naming and more importantly the way keys are used in Mashape. This is an important change so we recommend that...
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Learn APIs with Codecademy
Last month, Codecademy announced a special “API track” that focus on courses teaching budding developers to code applications that consume APIs.Yesterday Codecademy has grown that list to 56 more APIs,...
View ArticleMore startups will essentially be "Data Startups"
Below is an excerpt from the Data2.0 newsletter article called 4 Trends in 2013 Data Innovation featuring DeveloperWeek winner Callinize3. More startups will essentially be “Data Startups”Callinize,...
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API Terms & Conditions Page in Mashape
You can now set up a Terms & Conditions page for your API in Mashape(Example above from IDlight)To write the Terms & Conditions page for your API, just go to your API Admin page and click on...
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February Updates!
Introducing API Issues, API Terms, Embed Button, and more!We participated in a lot of developer events and pushed out important updates:Easily collaborate and report API Issues for both private and...
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We are moving to Tumblr
We’ve done about 200+ posts in Posterous so far. Now that it’s closing down, we have decided to move to Tumblr.We’re still in the process of moving so please bear with us. But do send us some...
View ArticleHow a Side-Project API Became Profitable
Jacob Perkins, author of Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook, and creator of Python NLTK Demos and APIs, recounts in this post how he got started in building APIs, and before his discovery of...
View ArticleMashape Sample Code for executing an AJAX request using jQuery
This code snippet below is CORS-enabled so you don’t have to worry about same-domain requests.https://gist.github.com/thefosk/5024297
View ArticleAnother Google API bites the dust.
In a shocking announcement Google has announced the end of Google Reader after 8 years.So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export...
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Face Recognition using Javascript and Mashape
This is a tutorial on how you can use the Face Recognition API in a web application using Javascript. The Face Recognition API makes it ridiculously easy to add face recognition capabilities to your...
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Spotify Web API on Mashape
We are happy to announce that Spotify has added their Spotify Web API in Mashape!Spotify is the most popular music streaming service that provides content from a range of major and independent record...
View ArticleThe Mashape API
The long wait is over! The Mashape API is here!The Mashape API lets you query and retrieve API and user information from Mashape. With close to 2000 APIs in catalog, this opens up tons of...
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Introducing the Mashape Ping Status Report
We’re rolling out a new detailed status report for API Providers. It gives you a second-by-second report on your API health, as pinged from the Mashape proxy.The goal is to give API providers a...
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Video topic extraction and transcription tutorial
This is a quick tutorial on how to transcribe and extract topics from videos using the Yactraq Speech2Topic, API in Mashape.(Note: Yactraq is giving away $500 to the winner Yactraq category for this...
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