The Argument for Real-Time REST APIs
blog.programmableweb.com
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: This guest post comes from Bryan Helmig, a self-taught hacker and co-founder of Zapier. By day he hacks on APIs, by night he hacks on APIs (its kind of his thing). Read more at Zapier’s blog and bryanhelmig. com. APIs enable incredible customization. No longer are customers locked into a specific interface or feature set: they can modify and augment core functionality as they see fit. It is incredibly liberating, but just deploying any old API isn’t enough. You need to really understand how people use your API. Luckily, you can group most API usage into one of two buckets: reading and writing. For the most part, writing into an API is straightforward: you bundle all the data up and POST (or PUT/PATCH) it to an endpoint.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Real-Time, Webhooks
Webhooks Now Available
feeds.activecampaign.com
on 01/02/2013
Excerpt: We are excited to announce support for webhooks which allow you to capture real-time data/requests coming from ActiveCampaign to use in other applications. Overview
Webhooks differ from our standard API in that they are event-driven, meaning they automatically run behind the scenes whenever a particular event happens in the system (such as a campaign sending, or a subscriber’s details being updated), whereas our standard API requires that you initiate the requests to receive data. Webhooks allow a much more fluid exchange of data between applications because they reduce the need for applications to poll for new data on a routine basis, which can be a waste of system resources.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Email, Email Marketing, Webhooks
Webhooks Piping
blog.superfeedr.com
on 12/06/2012
Excerpt: A recent post by Progrium (aka webhook’s biggest evangelist) reminded me that I needed to show how easy it was to plug Superfeedr in a network of webhooks. Here is what you can do, quite quickly! Piping
One of the great things with webhooks is that they’re litterally just HTTP urls that can run some arbitrary code. Once you understand that a given hook can also call another hook, it’s obvious to think that you can chain multiple hooks to reach the result you want. For example, you could have a webhook that converts some data into some other data before calling another hook. Let’s say I have a Tumblr account that agregates several feeds that I really like1. I want to use Superfeedr to do that. Let me show you how it’s done.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Feeds, RSS, subscriptions, Webhooks
Excerpt: We are excited to announce support for webhooks which allow you to capture real-time data/requests coming from ActiveCampaign to use in other applications. Overview Webhooks differ from our standard API in that they are event-driven, meaning they automatically run behind the scenes whenever a particular event happens in the system (such as a campaign sending, or a subscriber’s details being updated), whereas our standard API requires that you initiate the requests to receive data. Webhooks allow a much more fluid exchange of data between applications because they reduce the need for applications to poll for new data on a routine basis, which can be a waste of system resources.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Email, Email Marketing, Webhooks
