Google this week began offering an alpha version of Google APIs Client Library for JavaScript, which provides access to HTTP-based APIs on the Web, as well as to many of Google’s public APIs.

However, as incredible as they are, Google’s API Library is not the only option to achieve such benefits. Many alternatives provide the same, if not better, functionalities as Google.

Google provides a number of client libraries for accessing its services and now JavaScript joins in the long list of other supported languages / platforms, .NET, Go, Python, GWT, Objective-C, Ruby ...

Introducing the Google Maps Distance Matrix API. Google Maps traffic information is available via the Distance Matrix API, ... let’s take a look at the library I put together to access the API.

The applicable APIs will be labeled as Google Enterprise APIs in Google’s API Library and Google Cloud Marketplace. The label distinguishes them from other Google APIs, such as those supplied by ...

Library as a metaphor Alsup compared APIs to a library, with each package as a bookshelf in the library, each class a book on the shelf, and each method a chapter out of a how-to book.

With the launch of Advanced API Security, Google is evidently seeking to bolster its security offerings under Apigee, which it acquired in 2016 for over half a billion dollars.