APIs power almost every modern digital experience. They help organisations automate workflows, personalise content, secure transactions, and integrate with external systems. As businesses grow, the number of APIs they rely on grows as well. This leads to a familiar problem: too many vendors, too many authentication flows, and too many inconsistent data formats across services.This is where API…
OpenAI Function Calling: How to Connect LLMs to The Best Free APIs (2025)
December 30, 2025
ChatGPT can write code and answer questions, but it can’t fetch live data or interact with external systems on its own. Function calling changes this. It turns ChatGPT into a bridge between users and real APIs. A user asks “What’s the weather in San…
Grok 4.1 vs Gemini 3 vs GPT 5.1: We Tested the Latest LLMs on the IPstack API
December 10, 2025
Every major LLM release improved accuracy, finer output, better efficiency and smarter API interactions. But how do those models actually behave when they are asked to perform real world tasks and not just chat?To find out, we tested Grok 4.1, Gemini 3, and GPT 5.1 against…
How to Use Aviationstack With Zapier: Step-by-Step Guide to Automate Flight Data in 2025
December 2, 2025
Tracking flight data manually is time-consuming. If you’re building travel apps, monitoring corporate flights, or automating customer notifications, you need real-time aviation data flowing directly into your workflows. The traditional approach requires custom API integration, error handling, and constant maintenance overhead.Aviationstack delivers real-time flight tracking with updates…
Black Friday and Cyber Monday can be intense for technical teams. You are dealing with traffic spikes, last minute promo changes, unreliable third party tools, fraud attempts, and a very small window to get everything right.Using APIs can take a lot of that pressure off and…
Build an AI Agent for Fraud Detection Using Python, Langchain, and IPstack
November 20, 2025
Fake accounts flood your signup forms every day. Attackers use VPNs to hide their real locations, disposable phone numbers to bypass verification, and synthetic identities that look legitimate on the surface. Traditional rule-based validation falls short because it…
How Screenshotlayer’s Retina & WebP Support Enhances Screenshot Quality and Speed
November 13, 2025
Modern web apps need pixel-perfect screenshots for UI testing, social previews, reporting dashboards, and automated monitoring. But capturing high-quality, fast-loading images remains a real headache for developers.Modern devices have pixel densities ranging from 2x on tablets to 3x on mobile flagships, yet standard screenshots appear blurry when displayed on these high-DPI screens, diminishing…
How to Build a Scalable Web Scraping System Using Scrapestack API (2025 Guide)
September 6, 2025
Let’s face it, manually extracting data from websites is a total pain. Maybe you need to monitor competitor prices, gather leads, aggregate content, or analyze market trends. Whatever your use case, spending hours copying and pasting data from websites is not just…
How to Set Up Email Alerts for Malicious IPs Using IPstack and Novu (2025)
September 6, 2025
In a recent tutorial, we showed you how to build an IP-based threat detection system using IPStack’s security module (You can watch the step-by-step youtube video here) In this article, we’ll build on that lesson by incorporating real-time alerts that let you know when…
How to Build a Real-Time News App with the Mediastack API (React Tutorial)
September 6, 2025
Building a news app that collates a curated list of top headlines based on a user’s personalized requirements is easier than it sounds! Using a news media API integration and React, you can quickly put together a personalized news application that fetches live news headlines and filters them by category, keyword, and source.In this article, we’ll first answer the question “What is a news…
