The alternative to direct database access is application programming interface (API)-based access. As with every IT choice, there are trade-offs between the two approaches. APIs offer flexibility ...

His proposal followed Twitter's Thursday announcement that it would start charging for access to the platform's API from February 9. "Twitter data are among ... Tech Memo An icon in the shape ...

Epic Games has launched the Fortnite Data API to the public, allowing anyone to access information about the company's own islands.

Reddit announced paid Data API access in an effort to stop AI companies from freely using its content to train large language models. Reddit announced this week updated terms for developer tools ...

meaning third-party software developers who access API data to promote their own projects, like bots on the app, will only have access through a “paid basic tier”—though CEO Elon Musk says ...

API access has provided a critical resource for that work. Twitter’s new barriers to data access will reduce the very transparency that both the platform and our societies desperately need.” ...

The data will be supported by its DEX tracking arm, GeckoTerminal. With the new integration, users will be able to access a unified API for crypto prices, market data and metadata. In addition ...

Twitter will no longer provide free access to the Twitter API from February 9th ... said the Twitter Developer account. “Twitter data are among the world’s most powerful data sets.

Moderators had shut down pages “as part of the coordinated protest against Reddit’s exorbitant new API pricing” and “in solidarity with numerous people who need access to the API.” ...

unless the person in charge of them decides to pay for access. It also means researchers who leverage Twitter’s API to collect public data from the site will lose a key resource – again ...