We’re back with the Best Public API Competition! At the 2018 Platform Summit, Nordic APIs handed out an award to the best public API of 2018. As nominated and voted for by the community. Now is your chance to nominate and vote for the best public API of 2019. Voting is now closed and a winner has been announced. Voting is now closed ABOUT THE PROCESS Nomination entry submitted & received Entry is reviewed and details confirmed The nominated API entry is published on this page. Voting opens September 26th Voting close October 23rd. The winner is announced at the 2019 Platform Summit. TIMELINE PRIZE All of the nominees are invited to demo their API at the 2019 Platform Summit. The owner of the winning Public API will be invited up on stage to do a short presentation of the API. They will also receive a trophy, and a digital badge to add to their website. We will also do a review of the winning API on the Nordic APIs blog. Voting closed October 23rd, 2019. These were the APIs nominated. Shutterstock API The Shutterstock API provides access to over 280 million royalty-free images, video clips, and music tracks. Additionally, platforms can use the API to deliver advanced search (including AI-powered reverse and similar image search), the ability to manage custom collections, and automated content updates within their internal systems. Common use cases include in-platform content licensing, resale, and integration with media/digital asset management systems. The API is supported by a developer portal and interactive explorer that provide guidance through all stages of evaluation, testing, implementation, and maintenance. Festivo Festivo allows you to focus on development of your another amazing feature or app instead of data maintenance and gathering. Serve a better experience to your customers and employees in marketing, sales, shipment and support software. RingCentral The RingCentral API provides a way to manage both business and programmatic communications - allowing companies to communicate with their customers through voice, SMS, team messaging, meetings, and fax - while also providing in-depth analytics, numerous event notifications, and business level and account level system configuration. Awarded the Best in Communications APIs two years running, it is backed SDKs in 11 different languages, brand new developer guides and API reference, a brand new developer forum, numerous bot frameworks, and no-code, low-code, and pro-code options for implementation including a fully functional web phone that requires just one line of code. RingCentral Developers also provides API call analytics, free tier-1 developer support, and a one-of-a-kind Game Changers program that rewards developers for learning about RingCentral while growing their skills. api.video api.video enables developers to build, scale and operate video communications in their legacy apps, softwares and platforms. Video can be integrated with just a few lines of code. The API abstracts all the messy work, ingests massive amount of videos, delivers live and on demand content, works with any existing applications, ensures the highest standards in term of security, data integrity and privacy and provides, in real-time, a tremendous amount of analytics and logs. api.video is built on a microservices architecture and based on our own cloud infrastructure, that is erasing all the pains of video communication for developers with no effort and no capex. The service includes a sandbox (avoiding to alter with the production), a detailed and clear documentation, SDKs, code samples and a reactive community to answer questions and share projects. Melrose Labs Voice Gateway API Melrose Labs Voice Gateway API enables interaction through voice; from inbound and outbound call termination, to bridging between voice and other communication channels and applications. With Voice Gateway you can easily and effectively integrate voice into your systems. The API provides methods for allocating and listing numbers, speech to text, and text to speech functions. TomTom Maps APIs Through its Developer Portal, TomTom makes location technology available to all developers, offering APIs and Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Search, Routing, Maps, Traffic and Geofencing. Built by combining TomTom’s global map and traffic content with 28 years of navigation expertise, TomTom Maps APIs are some of the most advanced location services available on the market, allowing freelance, startup and enterprise developers alike to easily build location-aware mobile, web and IoT applications. The TomTom Developer Portal has a unique approach in making location services open to all: free sign up without a credit card, generous free quota, transparent and fair pricing, no lock in and no advertising. Amadeus for Developers Amadeus is a leading technology provider for the global travel industry. We offer cutting-edge technology solutions that help key players in the travel industry connect and build their businesses. Amadeus for Developers Self-Service is an open API program that makes it quick and easy to connect to Amadeus APIs and start building new solutions. On the developer portal, you can get instant access a catalog of Self-Service APIs offering travel data and functionalities for every step of the journey (from inspiration and A.I.-derived travel insights, to flight and hotel booking or information about tourist attractions or local safety) as well as documentation, guides, tutorials and more to help you get started quickly. Audioburst The Audioburst Studio aims to make it easier for developers and non-developers to tap into its rapidly growing library. It integrates short-form audio content playlists filled with the best moments from podcasts and talk radio directly into your web or mobile app experience. Created players and playlists can be integrated into Android and iOS apps via software developer kits, the web using a JavaScript code or APIs, and soon Amazon’s Alexa assistant and Google Home through voice apps. This year’s winner of the Best Public API competition is Shutterstock! The Shutterstock API provides access to over 280 million royalty-free images, video clips, and music tracks. Additionally, platforms can use the API to deliver advanced search (including AI-powered reverse and similar image search), the ability to manage custom collections, and automated content updates within their internal systems. Here are some motivations from the communities votes: Most intuitive developer platform. Great features and easy to integrate. Evolution of the platform to enable large scale, robust integrations is really impressive. API reference is best in class! Foremost thing about any API is its documentation and integration, Shutterstock API provides both. Documentation is simple amazing which makes integration for both professional companies or indie developers whole lot easier. Congratulations! Previous page Next page