Free APIs You Should Check Out
Adam DuVanderDeveloper Communications Director
@adamd
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Company Overview
• Founded July 2009
• TechStars graduate(Boulder, CO)
• 110 employees across 4 offices
– HQ: Boulder, CO– R&D: Anaheim, CA /
Romania
$27M venture capital raisedSeries B closed Jan 2012
Angel investors include:-Scott Petry (Founder, Postini)-Matt Mullenweg (Founder, Wordpress)
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Delivering Email at Scale
• Serving 60,000+ customers
• Sending over 6 billion emailsper month
• Transactional and marketing email solutions
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Today’s Speakers
Ryan HarrisLead Abuse Hombre [email protected]
Amy MustoeManager of Client [email protected]
Obviously…
Also Obvious
API Themes
• Intelligent Calculations• Visual• Email• Location • Music
• Login• Developer Tools• Memes• Secret Google APIs
Intelligent Calculations
Intelligent Calculations
Intelligent Calculations
Intelligent Calculations
Visual
Visual
• Web API• SMTP API• Marketing Email API• Event Webhook• Inbound Parse Webhook
Email in Any Language
Hacking SMTP
“category”: [ “trial_users”, “daily_digest”]
“unique_args”: { “user_id”: “12345”, “order_num”: “67890”}
“sub”: {“%name%”:
[“Rick”, “Roll”]}
Email Marketing
Robust API for all features
Event Notifications Webhook
Event Webhook Magic
MagicMail.io
To: [email protected]: TOP SECRET
Your mission should you choose to accept it…
To: [email protected]: TOP SECRET
open event
Inbound Parse Webhook
Including attachments
Inbound Use Cases
Location
Location
Location
Location: Geocoders
2839 ne alberta st portland or
45.559040, -122.636318
2839 NE Alberta StPortland, OR
45.559040, -122.636318
Location
Music
Music
Music
Login
LoginOAuth.io
Developer Tools
Brought to you by:
@sendgridlabs
➔ Part of SendGrid’s R&D group◆ Work on R&D for SendGrid core◆ Projects outside of core
➔ Developer focused◆ Try to identify and fix pain points ◆ Committed to providing dev tools
What we do
➔ Simple cloud based load testing➔ Released in public beta March 1st
➔ Free and Pro versions available➔ Usage
◆ > 9k users◆ > 12k apps tested◆ > 72k tests executed◆ > 25 TB data transferred◆ Some customers: Microsoft (teched), SendGrid,
Dell, livestrong, Chilis, Salesforce, Intuit, stopwatching.us, cesweb.org, eclipse.org
Key features
➔ On-demand & continuous load testing➔ High volumes of test connections
◆ up to 100k clients per test
➔ URL sequences➔ HTTP Methods➔ REST API➔ Cycling, non-cycling & scenario testing➔ Expressions allow dynamic modifications
◆ http://example.com/resource/id/%{1:1000:1}
➔ Stats and history
API
➔ Location◆ api.loader.io◆ docs.loader.io/api/intro.html
➔ Functionality◆ Register and verify testing domains◆ Create and execute tests◆ View test results◆ Obtain list of client IP’s
Coming soon
➔ More protocols◆ SMTP◆ WebSockets
➔ Enhanced analytics and reporting➔ Regional traffic sources➔ Team Accounts➔ More integrations
Integrations
➔ Platforms◆ Heroku◆ Azure◆ CloudBees◆ AppHarbor◆ Cloud Control
➔ Applications◆ Jenkins◆ HipChat◆ FlowDock◆ GroveIO
Demo
Memes
Memes
Stevan Sheets
Secret Google: Profanity
bit.ly/gprofanity
Secret Google: Stocks
bit.ly/gstocksym
WeatherStocksMoviesNews
Secret Google: Suggest
bit.ly/gsug
ProgrammableWeb
API Themes
• Intelligent Calculations• Visual• Email• Location • Music
• Login• Developer Tools• Memes• Secret Google APIs
19+ APIs
Learn More
• Event API Webinar• API Guide• blog.sendgrid.com• SendGrid Delivered:
– Miami, San Diego, LA, and South America
• SendGrid and Loader Free Accounts!
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