12 Apis Every Programmer Should Know About !

Have a look on the following -

1. GeoNames :- GeoNames turns strings of characters into latitudes and longitudes. The database includes both geographic names and political entities.

1. FlightStats :- FlightStats tracks the thousands of planes moving through the air, watching for the delays and reroutings that can scuttle plans. The API can answer whether a flight is on time, canceled, or being sent to a different airport.

1. FollowTheMoney :- Follow the money has been used several times in investigative journalism and political debate. One example is Follow the Money, a series of CBS reports. You Search by state, year, candidate, party, office, and many other fields. Content is available under a Creative Commons license and is not to be used for commercial purposes.

1. USA.gov :- The world is full of fakes, and the social media world does not reflect the very best. This is why the U.S. government created a definitive list of official social media accounts.

1. StockTwits :- StockTwits is a collection of words written about the stocks. The API offers a wide range of open and premier queries on the stocks, forex, and bonds.

1. Yahoo Content Analysis :- The API requires use of Yahoo Query Language and is limited to 5,000 queries a day for noncommercial purposes.

1. Moodstocks :- Moodstocks offers a full-featured library for iOS and Android developers, as well as tools for uploading images to the server that performs all computational matching.

1. MusixMatch :- MusixMatch offers an API with basic searching, as well as a PHP library, an Android plug-in, Perl, Ruby, and more.

1. OpenStreetMap :- OpenStreetMap offer an API for editing the map data and another one for displaying the data in a Web page. Not only are you encouraged to use their map data, you're welcome to add to their collection.

1. Panoramio :- Panoramio offers an API for searching geo-linked photos along with a widget for displaying them.

1. 3D Geo Stats :- 3D Geo Stats is like the classic map API, but the data is drawn on top of a 3D globe in a Flex component.

1. New York Public Library :- Sure you could travel to New York and enjoy a Broadway show on the side, but it's cheaper and faster to just browse the stacks of the New York Public Library through its API.