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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…

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 Get Direct Download URLs from Dropbox

February 25, 2025

Need to programmatically access files stored in Dropbox? Or perhaps you’re integrating with a third-party with Dropbox in your applications? While it’s great for storage and sharing, getting direct Dropbox download URLs needs a small change. Let’s explore how to transform standard Dropbox sharing links into direct download URLs that work seamlessly with your code…

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Speed Up Firebase Cold Starts with Firestore REST Calls

January 26, 2023

If you use serverless cloud functions, whether on AWS or Google Cloud, you know the pain of cold starts. Firebase functions is notorious for having cold start issues and we’ve previously written about Firebase cold start solutions. Most of these…

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Schedule Social Media Posts from Notion

January 25, 2023

We’ll be discussing how to integrate Notion to the Ayrshare API in order to quickly and easily schedule social media posts from Notion. By the end of this article, you’ll be able to create and organize your social media post…

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Google Business Profile: Own The Search Results For Your Business

January 11, 2023

Want a free ad on Google? Sounds like a scam, but that is essentially what you get with a Google Business Profile. A Google Business Profile is a free listing that appears on Google when a user searches for a…

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The Free Video Metadata Inspector

January 5, 2023

The Ayrshare Free Video Metadata Inspector is a simple web tool for extracting metadata from multimedia streams and codecs based on ffprobe, which is part of the ffmpeg package. When used to analyze a video file URL, it can provide…

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Post To Social Media From Your Website Form Using Make & Ayrshare

December 20, 2022

Post To Social Media From Your Website Form Using Make + Ayrshare + WordPress + Contact Form 7 A no-code video tutorial which explains how you can post to your user’s social media accounts using Make (Integromat), Contact Form 7,…

Twitter bans link in bio

Twitter Bans Link In Bio Pages & Social Media Link Aggregators [updated]

December 18, 2022

UPDATE on December 19, 2022: A few hours after announcing the new Twitter policy, Twitter seems to have reversed the decision by deleting all mentions of the “Promotion of alternative social platform policy”. The situation has been very fluid, and…

Firebase Emulator Logging

How to Enhance Firebase Emulator Logs

December 17, 2022

Pretty up, remove noise, and enhance your Firebase emulator logs. I’m a big fan for Firebase and extensively use the emulator for local development with our social media API. There are a lot of great features of the emulator, such…

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LinkedIn API: How to Post and Get Analytics With the LinkedIn API

December 13, 2022

Should you invest time crafting thought pieces and engaging with the entrepreneurs and professionals on LinkedIn? Will it help your company or your clients’ businesses? Or does it just increase vanity metrics?  Such dilemmas are not uncommon but research points…

What is a Link In Bio Page?

What is a Link In Bio Page?

December 8, 2022

As you scroll through your Instagram feed, you may have noticed a common phrase popping up in captions: “link in bio.” But what does “link in bio”, or also known as a microsite, mean and why has it become such…