Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks target our website visitors, compromising their personal information by exploiting vulnerabilities in our website’s security. Thankfully, you can sanitize XSS attempts easily with the help of our XSS Detection & Normalization API. As the name suggests, the underlying service identifies whether a text string contains an…

Text based threats pose a considerable risk to our system, so it’s vital that our applications check text strings for malicious content before it can wreak havoc on our system from the inside. Using the code below, you can take advantage of our free-to-use (up to 800 API calls per…

It’s critically important to protect your applications against text-based threats. To that end, in this article I’ll briefly demonstrate an API solution which quickly detects JSON Insecure Deserialization (JID) attacks from text input. …

Building powerful currency services into your application is a simpler process than it might seem. Just use the PHP code examples provided below to structure requests to our free-to-use Currency API — you’ll be able to retrieve up-to-date exchange rate data and convert prices instantly. To get started, run this…

A simple EAN barcode API solution might become a critical factor in scaling your ecommerce business. Thankfully, you can generate both EAN-13 and EAN-8 barcodes with ease using the PHP code examples provided in this article, and you can do so for free with a free-tier API key (get one…

If you’re running a growing ecommerce website, creating a simple UPC barcode generation workflow might become a key factor in getting your products out the door efficiently. Thankfully, using the PHP code examples provided below, you can rapidly generate 2D UPC-A and UPC-E barcodes as PNG files using each product’s…

Looking for a quick, free & easy-to-use QR code API to include in your applications? You’re in luck: the below API rapidly generates QR codes from text input, returning the encoding for a new PNG file. …

While some barcodes are certainly more common than others (such as EAN and UPC), there are, in fact, a surprisingly large number of different barcode formats which your business might encounter. …

Scanning 2D EAN barcodes isn’t the only way to find information about a product. You can process the EAN number with a Barcode Look Up API to accomplish the same goal — and thankfully, you can implement one for free using the PHP code examples provided below. First, run the…