We had 10 nominees for the Best Public API of 2018 award, we received a ton of votes from the community, and now we’re happy to announce that the winner of the Best Public API of 2018 competition is RingCentral! The RingCentral API enables multi-faceted business communication abilities, including voice, SMS, messaging, meetings, and fax. Their developer friendly program features extensive docs, sample apps, and a wide SDK library. Here are some motivations from the communities votes: All around fantastic engineering and ease of use Ability to implement SMS into my website in 20 minutes! It just works. 99.99 reliability It allows communications from within a bunch of apps that Small Businesses and Enterprises use on a regular basis (like Google apps, Microsoft cloud apps, SalesForce, etc.). And they keep improving and adding more apps to their ecosystem. Congratulations >> Don’t miss the Best Public API 2019 Competition! These were the nominees for the Best Public API award 2018. Kloudless Kloudless helps aggregate multiple APIs and intergrate these services into an application. The API works over HTTPS, uses OAuth 2.0 for authentication, provides an interactive testing console, extensive API documentation, and offers SDKs in 6 programming languages. Healthcare Messenger – KPN The Healthcare Messenger API is provided by KPN, allowing 1-1 chat communications for healthcare scenarios. This HTTP-based RESTful API uses OAuth 2.0 for authorization. They offer a sandbox for testing, a Postman collection for testing, and a comprehensive yet navigable API reference. Live Objects The Orange API connects with a platform for managing data from IoT sources. Using the API, developers can utlize a wide range of services, from connecting and collecting information from IoT devices, to storing, securing them, and accessing such data. Avalara AvaTax API Avalara offers a suite of REST APIs to interface with AvaTax, an enterprise tax service. According to an anonymous submission, "The level of confidence and security with their API is top notch. The documentation is also really easy to follow and understand. To top it off they have phenomial developer support in the rare occasion you do need assistance." NASA API The NASA APIs open up NASA data and imagery for developers to create all sorts of spacey applications. With a testing sandbox, quick onboarding process, this API and open data initiative is a great example of American tax dollars at work! api.video The api.video services provides a way to host and deliver videos using their content delivery network. This could help developers create Netflix-style video broadcast applications. The API is RESTful, has nice public documentation, and offers OAS and RAML specs. RingCentral The RingCentral API enables multi-faceted business communication abilities, including voice, SMS, messaging, meetings, and fax. Their developer friendly program features extensive docs, sample apps, and a wide SDK library. Home Connect API Home Connect offers the possibility to control your Home Connect enabled kitchen appliances through its own app as well as its ecosystem of partners that have integrated the Home Connect API, such as Amazon Alexa, Nest, Bosch Smart Home, and others. APItude by Hotelbeds Described as "the world's bed bank," Hotelbeds is networking the world's travel trade. Through APItude, developers can create a travel website or mobile app with instant access to 175,000 hotels and more than 10,000 activities. Monzo API Docs Monzo is an innovative, user-friendly mobile-first bank. Their web API provides an intuitive interface for interacting with Monzo user account information, such as Balances, Transactions, and other data feeds. For the 2018 Platform Summit, Nordic APIs handed out an award to the best public API of 2018. We let the community nominate their favorite public API and then vote once we closed the nomination process! TIMELINE Poll closed and winner announced. ABOUT THE PROCESS After we reviewed a nomination we published information about the API on this page. The voting opened on September 26th and closed on October 24th. The winner was announced at the end of day 2 of the 2018 Platform Summit of the event (October 24th). PRIZE All of the nominees were invited to attend the 2018 Platform Summit and demo their API in the expo area. The owner of the Public API that won was invited up on stage to do a short presentation of the API. We handed out a trophy, and the winner received a digital badge to add to their website. We will also do a review of the API on the Nordic APIs blog. Previous page Next page
