APIAutomationJavascriptLocation

How To Get Started With Powerful A Geo API Service Using NodeJS

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December 21, 2021
What is positionstack, and What Makes it Powerful? positionstack is an API service that delivers a straightforward and reliable solution for forward and reverse geocoding. positionstack covers more than 2 billion places and addresses worldwide.  Among its features, the positionstack API includes batch geocoding, multi-language support, embeddable map URLs, and more. positionstack…
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APIComparisons

SOAP vs REST And Why We Choose REST For Our APIs

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December 5, 2021
SOAP and REST are both ways of accessing web services. But, while SOAP is a protocol, REST is an architectural style. This means SOAP cannot use REST, but it can be used by REST as the underlying protocol for web services. Another big difference between these two approaches…
APISecurity

What You Need To Know About API Security

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October 26, 2021
Most software systems that communicate over a network use an API at some level. In fact, many applications base their underlying communication system entirely on APIs. This practice begs the question — Are APIs good or secure enough to serve the purpose? Of course, whether or not you use APIs is only a small part of the big picture. After all, APIs only allow you to access…
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APIAutomationJavascriptSecurity

Easily Spider Websites Using Node.js And Powerful REST APIs

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July 13, 2021
What is scrapestack, and What Makes it Powerful for Web Scraping? The scrapestack API was built to offer a simple REST API interface for scraping web pages at scale without having to programmatically deal with geolocations, IP blocks, or CAPTCHAs. The API supports a series of features essential to web scrapings, such as JavaScript rendering, custom HTTP headers, various geo-targets…
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