I want to explore if it's possible to use an API to schedule an immunization appointment at major pharmacies - CVS, Walgreens, Walmart and Costco. CVS and Walgreens seem to have a comprehensive API catalog for prescription drugs but it's unclear to me if they service APIs that support immunizations.
I tried to look into CVS's Immunizations Product API and it looks like it's possible to integrate. Walgreens launched the Clinic Scheduler API in 2015 but I'm not able to find any tech specs about it on the dev portal. Walmart Pharmacy does not seem to have any APIs at all.
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Can Whatsapp Cloud API be used for business as a reseller?
like what is the difference between the new Whatsapp Cloud API and the API we get from Resellers?
Also, is there an API to automate the signup process?
Those Resellers you mention are often Business Solution Providers (BSPs), or BSP partners.
So that implies, in order to be WhatsApp Cloud API reseller, you will need to be either a BSP or BSP partner.
The Cloud API architecture significantly simplifies the BSP’s operational and infrastructure requirements to integrate with WhatsApp Business Platform.
See "What is the architecture of the Cloud API?", in Cloud API FAQs
As a BSP or its partner, a reselling program is available to you both for On-premises/Managed WhatsApp Business API and Cloud API. However, you need to take into account Cloud API is relatively new and all BSPs are currently adapting/expanding their current solutions to new service offered by Meta.
In other words, Cloud API is not yet available everywhere and current services offered by BSPs are more versatile and feature rich than Cloud API until this will eventually change.
The largest WhatsApp BSP is 360dialog, offering WhatsApp Business API integration Platform as a Service, and on-premises plans.
Since you asked about differences between Cloud API and BSPs, let me give a short comparison between Cloud API and 360dialog key differences, as an example:
Differences
360dialog
Meta Cloud API
Message Throughput (Per Second)
Flexible scalability setups for small to large businesses. Send up to 70 text messages per second for single-connect. Send up to 250 text messages per second for multi-connect.
Up to 80 messages per second of combined sending and receiving (inclusive of text and media messages). In the event of high system loads, a business may experience reduced message throughput. Starting in July 2022, support up to 250 messages per second of combined sending and receiving (inclusive of text and media messages), by request
SLA - Uptime
Standard and Premium support with different SLAs: >99%, >98%
Goals of 99.9% at GraphAPI.
SLA - Disaster Recovery
Average response time of 4h. Escalation Path to Meta team after 360dialog investigation.
No SLA
Sources:
Full comparison table of differences between On-premises and Cloud API solutions.
360dialog Pricing
So, as you might've noticed, with BSP will work more closely with you as a solution provider and will offer you more flexibility depending on the business scale.
WhatsApp Business API requires some developer effort, but there are also different WhatsApp API based solutions that make this whole process a lot easier.
One of them is get.chat WhatsApp Business Team Inbox & WhatsApp Integration API which will help you to integrate with WhatsApp much faster. Plus, it will enable access to non-technical people in your team/company, too!
I am a co-founder and CTO so I am open to answer any questions if you want to know more about our solution. Here is also a link to the docs if you're interested in learning more by yourself.
Further reading:
An easy guide about WhatsApp Business API by get.chat
Cloud API FAQs - offered by Meta directly
On-premises WhatsApp Business API FAQs - hosted by BSPs and resellers
now there are two types of Whatsapp Business API. The ones from the diferent Busniness Solution Providers (BSP) and the one from Meta (Whatsapp CloudAPI).
I think that untill now, each BSP has develped it´s own APIS starting off the one provided by Meta. So each BSP offeres his own APIs (endpoints, libraries..).
Meta has now published the API offered to the BSP and now every business has direct access to it. No more BSP are needed, unless you want and easy to use solution.
The main difference I see between BSP and Meta API is that BSP are easier to use. MetaAPI is a huge complex system.
Now you don't need to look at BSP, all you can do is set up, create a business account and developer effort to make things work according to your business desire, and create message templates.
please have a below link for further eloboration.
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/338665938087159
Question1:
I have tested Flight-Orders API which shows in beta state. Can we use this API in production and if yes, what are the payment methods to use?
Question2:
While testing self-service API's I have been able to run workflow below
Flight-Offers V2 (https://test.api.amadeus.com/v2/shopping/flight-offers)
Flight-Offers/Pricing using result from 1 (https://test.api.amadeus.com/v1/shopping/flight-offers/pricing)
Flight-Orders using output from 2 (https://test.api.amadeus.com/v1/booking/flight-orders)
But, result from Flight Low-Fare Search (https://test.api.amadeus.com/v1/shopping/flight-offers) is missing fields to be used in flow above. Are results from Low-Fare results not intended to be used for any consecutive action like pricing/order?
Question 1:
The API is in beta because we are piloting the access in production with beta testers. We are still accepting pilots, if you are interested you can contact us at developers#amadeus.com.
After the testing phase, the production will be opened to everybody. The payment methods are the same as for the other APIS:
Credit card payment
Bank transfer
Question 2:
You are 100% right, Flight Low-fare Search is version 1 of our flight search. It will be decommissioned for Flight Offers Search (version 2 of our flight search) in the future.
And you are right about the flow:
Flight Offers Search -> Flight Offers Price -> Flight Create Orders
We will communicate more about it in the future but you can take a look at this blog article.
The application that we are developing is related to creating a service that seeks to identify informal learning activities using YouTube as a tool. This is a doctoral thesis and the service aims to provide teachers / educational institutions of learning activity information that are related to the themes seen in the classroom classroom or using a Virtual Learning Environment. All these identifications will be made with the permission of users (students) within the period set by the subject teacher / course.
All the necessary information for our service were available until the new version of the API of the day 15.9.2016 came to not return history information of watched videos that our service needs.
Is there a specific procedure for the release of funds, in view of the launch of the new version? Can you help us?
According to the latest revision of the YouTube API
requests to retrieve playlist items (playlistItems.list) for a channel's watch history now return empty lists.
Avaliable in - https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/revision_history de September 15, 2016.
I searched http://espn.go.com/apis/devcenter/ but couldn't find anywhere that you can create your API key. I also created an account with ESPN but no luck.
It's not public 4 months ago (http://espn.go.com/static/apis/devcenter/blog/read/publicretirement.html)
Dear ESPN API Developers,
Since the launch of the ESPN Developer Center in March 2012 the capabilities and direction of our API program have continued to evolve in order to serve sports fans in the best way possible.
As part of that evolution, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue our public APIs, which will enable us to better align engineering resources with the growing demand to develop core ESPN products on our API platform.
Effective today, we will no longer be issuing public API keys. Developers utilizing the ESPN API with a public API key may continue to do so until Monday, December 8, 2014, at which point the keys will no longer be active.
We want to thank all of you for supporting the ESPN API, and we hope you found value interacting with the service over the past two years.
The ESPN API Team
I would like to ask you about Alchemy API on Bluemix. Using Achemy API, how many times can you tag an image?
Is it only twice times?
As you can read here, on March IBM announced the acquisition of AlchemyAPI and it integrated AlchemyAPI’s deep learning technology with the Watson platform exposing these capabilities to the developer community through IBM Bluemix.
For this reason AlchemyAPI on Bluemix has basically the same features that it had before. That means that you have a certain number of REST API calls included in your plan.
Bluemix provides the following plans:
IBM AlchemyAPI Free Plan: with 1.000 API Events per day per Bluemix Organization
IBM AlchemyAPI Standard: pay per use plan in which you will be charged per API Event.
Among the REST APIs you need the AlchemyVision ones to tag images, and you can use them all the times you need. All you need is an API key, that is obtained after choosing a plan.