IP location: how to detect the exact geolocation
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4y ago
source: yext In order to lookup the IP location a database is needed. This database contains information about which physical address belongs to which IP address. Our Geolocation API connects to this database to lookup the location. However, as explained in this blog post, IP addresses are dynamic. Databases update very often to keep track of these new locations. The post IP location: how to detect the exact geolocation appeared first on The API Company ..read more
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REST & SOAP API USAGE IN 2020
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4y ago
This infographic illustrates REST and SOAP API usage in 2020. In total 69% of the API’s consist of REST API’s. 23% are SOAP API’s. Moreover, the Twitter API is used the most often. About 15 billion API calls are made to the twitter API per day. Finally, this infographic show the growth of the amount of API’s from 2006 until 2020. Also check out our device detection API and geolocation API. Share this Image On Your Site <p><strong>Please include attribution to www.theapicompany.com with this graphic.</strong><br /><br /><a href='https://theapicompany.com/blog ..read more
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What is an IP address: concept & technology
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4y ago
source IP-address is short for “Internet protocol address“. This “address” is your unique number to access the internet. Every device connected to the internet has an IP-address. This makes enables you to deliver a message to the right person. Just like sending a letter to your home address. However, your computer connects to the internet indirectly. Your device is first connected to a network. Subsequently, this network connects you to the the internet. This network can be your Internet service provider (ISP) like AT&T or Vodafone. On the other hand, connection is made to a wireless netwo ..read more
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What is geolocation: History and use-cases
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4y ago
A brief history For already thousand of years people want to locate themselves. The Ancient Greeks used the positioning of the stars to discover their location. In 1935 Sir Robert watt developed the Radar system. During the second world war radar was used during to locate the opponent. In 1973, the USA launched the very first GPS satellite. Originally, only the US military used this GPS. Later in 1989, president Reagan issued a directive making GPS freely available. In the years after the technology developed rapidly. Benefon Inc introduced the first commercial mobile for with build-in G ..read more
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New mobile devices March 2020
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4y ago
An overview of new mobile devices for March 2020. The user agent strings of mobile devices are displayed as well Xiaomi Poco X2 User Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; POCO X2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.136 Mobile Safari/537.36 Display Camera ● 6.67 inches ● 1080×2400 px ● IPS LCD ● 4 Primary Cameras ● 64 + 8 + 2 + 2 MP ● 20+2 MP Front Cam Performance Battery ● Octa core ● Snapdragon 730G ● 6 GB RAM ● 4500 mAh ● Fast Charging ● USB Type-C port Release date: 14th February 2020 Vivo V17 Pro User Agent Stri ..read more
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API with bash code in AWS Lambda and API gateway
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4y ago
Amazon web services (AWS) is a powerful platform for almost every web service you can imagine. With AWS API Gateway and Lambda you are able to create REST API’s with ease! API gateway is used to create the API. Lambda lets you execute code when the API is invoked. This code can be in many programming languages like Python or NodeJs. Unfortunately, it is unable to run Bash code out-of-the-box with Lambda. For me it was necessary to run bash code in order to execute AWS CLI. With AWS CLI you are able control your AWS web services with commands (CLI = command line interface). With AWS CLI you ..read more
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User Agent Strings popular Huawei devices
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4y ago
Below you can find an overview of the user agent (UA) strings of popular Huawei devices. Huawei P30 Pro Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; VOG-L29) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.90 Mobile Safari/537.36 Huawei P30 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; ELE-L29) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.90 Mobile Safari/537.36 Huawei P20 Pro Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1; CLT-L29 Build/HUAWEICLT-L29) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.109 Mobile Safari/537.36 Huawei P20 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1; EML ..read more
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User Agent strings popular Samsung devices
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4y ago
Below you can find an overview of the User-Agent (UA) strings of Samsung’s popular devices. Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; SM-N976V) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.89 Mobile Safari/537.36 Samsung Galaxy S10 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; SAMSUNG SM-G977N Build/PPR1.180610.011) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/9.2 Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Mobile Safari/537.36 Samsung Galaxy S10+ Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; SM-G975F) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.83 Mobile Safari/537.36 ..read more
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