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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…

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…

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…

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Ayrshare Launches Messaging API for Facebook, Instagram, and X Direct Messages

October 2, 2024

New API Enables Businesses to Seamlessly Send and Receive Direct Messages Across Major Social Media Platforms New York, October 2, 2024 — Ayrshare, the leading social media API provider, today announced the release of its highly anticipated Messaging API. This powerful tool allows businesses and developers to programmatically send and receive direct messages on Facebook…

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…

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Get Public Social Media Analytics, A No Code Tutorial Video

March 25, 2024

In this video, we show you how to get public social media analytics like the follower counts for two major stars on Facebook, Instagram, and X. This lets us answer the question, “Who is more popular on social media, U2…

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Facebook Removes Groups API Access: Impact and Implications

March 20, 2024

In a significant move that has resonated across the social media ecosystem, Facebook has announced that it will remove access to its Groups API. Update: Facebook has announced that the access will be removed on April 22, 2024. The Facebook…

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Instagram Collaborator API

March 12, 2024

Instagram recently introduced a feature that enables users to co-author posts by tagging others as collaborators. This update allows you to designate other Instagram users as creators on your post. When tagged, these users receive an invitation to collaborate. If…