Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.

Iteris, applied informatics provider for the transportation and agriculture industries, has announced APIs for its EvapoSmart and IMFocus solutions.

APIMatic, a developer experience platform that generates SDKs, announced the SDKs generated through its platform will now support OAuth 2.0. Prior to this announcement, OAuth 2.0 support within APIMatic was limited to authentication token headers within requests. APIMatic mentioned that full OAuth 2.0 support has been on the roadmap for quite some time as it is quickly becoming the best practice for authorizing shared user data, especially among API providers.

Google today made what it calls the "final preview" of Android O available to application developers. This new build carries with it all the bits and pieces developers need to make their apps fully Android O capable.

Today, Instagram announced new features and a major upgrade to the Instagram Platform API. The new features apply to comment functionality and the API is upgrading to Facebook's Graph API. The goal of the new features and the upgrade is to help API partners to better manage their organic presence.

We start your weekend off with a review of the stories we couldn’t cover with a look at what what going on in the world of APIs. We start off with news that Yandex, the Russian search engine company, has announced that they are open-sourcing CatBoost, a machine learning library.

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.

R is an excellent language for data analytics, but it's uncommon to use it for serious development. This means that popular APIs don't offer software development kits (SDKs) or how-to guides for analysts working in R the way they do for other more popular languages like Python or Objective-C (for Apple's iOS). This is a how-to guide for connecting to an API to receive stock prices as a data frame when the API doesn't have a specific package for R.

Body Labs has launched its SOMA Shape API. SOMA provides a backend server that can predict a 3D model and digital measurements based on a single photo and a person's height, weight, and gender. The SOMA Shape API allows third party apps to easily connect to the SOMA backend.

MapQuest has announced that the MapQuest JavaScript Maps API, both Licensed and Open, will be retired on June 5, 2018.