Osperity software

With its Application Programming Interface (API), Osperity makes it easy to add imagery to third-party software applications. An API is a combination of software code, protocols and routines that allows two software programs to communicate with each other. It enables a developer to easily request services from the targeted application. Osperity uses RESTful APIs. A RESTful API is an application program interface that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is bandwidth efficient, scalable, and highly adaptable and customizable, thus making it the preferred interface for web services.

Osperity now has webhooks as tool for managing alerts through its platform. Webhooks (Also called web callback or HTTP push API) is a way for an application to provide other applications with real-time information. A webhook delivers data to other applications immediately. Webhooks are much more efficient for both providers and consumers than a typical API, which needs to poll for data very frequently to get it real-time. The only drawback to webhooks is the difficulty of initially setting them up.