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How to Get Direct Download URLs from Google Drive

February 18, 2025

Need to programmatically access files stored in Google Drive? Or perhaps you’re integrating with…

HTTP Compression in Node.js: A Dive into Gzip, Deflate, and Brotli

February 11, 2025

To celebrate that the wonderful NPM package compression just added Brotli in version 1.8.0,…

How to Retrieve Social Media Posts For All Your Users with an API

January 22, 2025

Are you looking to retrieve all your social media posts programmatically using an API?…

Top 10 Social Media APIs

Top 10 Social Media APIs for Developers

February 20, 2025

Here’s the situation you’ve been tasked with automatically sending scheduled posts to various social media networks – such as Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google Business Profile, Threads, Bluesky or even Telegram, Discord, TikTok, or Reddit – directly from your platform, CMS, or app on behalf of your users. Additionally, you’re expected to gather analytics related…

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Best Practices for API Design

September 17, 2024

Tips for Creating Well-Structured and Maintainable APIs At Ayrshare, we continue to see Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) adopted as the backbone of seamless communication between different software systems. And just like a good (dad) joke, an API should be easy…

Build a Social Media Posting App with No Code

August 28, 2024

Watch this tutorial video to build your own social media posting web app. This video uses the Bubble.io no-code app building platform and the Ayrshare Bubble plugin. All you need is an Ayrshare API Key and you can make your…

How to Query for Non-Existent Fields in Firestore

August 24, 2024

As developers working with Firebase’s Firestore database, we often encounter situations where we need to query for documents that don’t have a particular field. It should be simple, right? Well, unfortunately, this seemingly simple task is more challenging than expected.…

5 Tips for Great Developer API Docs

July 20, 2024

So, you’ve built a phenomenal API, but if your documentation reads like a tax manual, even the bravest developers will flee. Or worst, it is incomplete or has mistakes…ouch! Clear and concise API documentation is the cornerstone of a successful…

Ayrshare Messaging API for Facebook, Instagram, and X/Twitter

July 2, 2024

In the world of digital marketing, apps and platforms are always seeking new tools to enhance their user engagement on their platforms. For years, Ayrshare has offered the industry leading social media API for scheduling posts, retrieving analytics, and managing…

User Profile Tagging in Ayrshare

June 26, 2024

In this video, we show how to tag user profiles in Ayrshare. This is a great feature to segment your users directly in Ayrshare. You can use the tags to filter in the Ayrshare web dashboard and build custom workflow…

Understanding the Ayrshare Auto-Schedule API Endpoint

May 29, 2024

Ayrshare offers post scheduling to all the social networks via an API, which is one of the most used capabilities of the system. The lesser known auto-schedule API endpoint can take your scheduling to the next level. The auto-schedule endpoint…

Why Do I Have to Test Your Code? (The 5-Minute Sniff Test)

May 3, 2024

If you can’t spend 5 minutes testing your work, then don’t make me. I’ve spent 18 years in the software engineering industry, and have been called a programmer, then a developer, and now a software engineer — next is “delivery…

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The Top 5 Chakra UI Tips and Tricks for React Developers

April 16, 2024

Chakra UI is a popular component library for building customizable React applications. It provides a solid foundation of reusable UI components that allow you to rapidly create polished, professional-looking interfaces. Here at Ayrshare, we recently rewrote our social media dashboard…