What is an API?
API, also called Application Programming Interface, is an essential part of application building. Programmers often use an interpreter or a middleman as an analogy of an API. They work by enabling clients and servers to communicate with each other. The client is the one who sends requests, and the server is the one who stores and processes data.
In real life, you can take one of your mobile apps as an example. A streaming service like YouTube or Spotify may demonstrate how an API works. When you type certain keywords (it can be song titles, names of artists, or channels, etc.) in the search column of a streaming app, you play a client role. Once you type that, the API will translate your request and send it to the backend server, where the data is stored. API will scan the most relevant data for you, verify your identity (age, geographical location, subscription/membership status), and send it back to the client (you) based on that verification process.
Types of APIs
API has several types. The most common division is accessibility, which includes public APIs, private APIs, partnered APIs, and composite APIs. Public APIs are the ones that are open to almost all parties, including external developers, and usually have minimal restrictions (examples such as Google Maps, OpenWeather, OpenSky, and YouTube Data API). Private APIs are only accessible to certain parties because of confidentiality measures, it is built exclusively for internal use, such as a payroll system within a company.
Partner APIs are legally shared software interfaces that are usually a result of a contract agreement between two parties. E-commerce is the most common example of this, as they shared digital infrastructure with payment gateway systems. This allows us as users to experience a seamless online shopping experience where we can make and track payments within the site. E-commerce can also use more complex API called composite APIs. In this infrastructure, APIs are designed to handle subrequests within a request made by clients. For example, if you order a taxi through an app, the API will sort things out for you at once. This includes locating nearby available drivers, calculating the fare, reserving the fare with an e-wallet, giving notification, and many more.
There are also more types of API based on the architecture and protocols, such as REST, GraphQL, SOAP, and gRPC. This is a rather complex and technical explanation that we can skip for now.
What is the definition of a custom API?
As a business or organization who need an effectively manage its budget, you might think it is best to use a pre-built and public API. This is a logical decision, but it also comes with a risk. In order to create a smoother experience for your app users, a custom API is highly recommended.
Custom API is a server-client bridge and protocols that are highly specialized for your sole business needs. As they are exclusively yours and made for you, a custom API is generally secured and hard to breach compared to public and pre-built APIs.
What is ChatScopeAI custom API development?
When you need to create a tailor-made framework to facilitate your business cycle, then a custom API is the best choice. ChatScopeAI offers a custom API development for clients who need to retrieve large-scale, comprehensive regulatory data to keep informed of the latest changes. Our data includes:
Data privacy and cybersecurity
Data privacy has become a major issue these days since many people use the internet on a daily basis. The regulations about personal data protection and security in all countries have been changing constantly and rapidly to ensure confidentiality for their citizen.
Trade-related regulation (tariff, FTA, customs)
Trade regulations, including export and import, and customs procedures, are not static. They are changing frequently, and they have a huge impact on the flow of products and services across national borders.
Safety product compliance
All countries continuously set up safety standards and regulations to protect their citizens from domestic and imported products. These regulations are required of manufacturers before marketing their products in certain countries.
Environmental and sustainability
Environmental regulations are tools from the government to ensure that businesses adhere to the principles of sustainability and ethical business standards.
Workforce and labor
Labor regulations must be followed by all businesses to guarantee the welfare and the rights of workers. These regulations are changing regularly and are commonly updated each year, including employment guarantees and an increase in wages.
Benefits of ChatScopeAI custom API development
Using ChatScopeAI’s custom API development will give you many advantages compared to regular or public APIs. These are benefits you can enjoy when using ChatscopeAI’s custom API.
1. Directly target specific regulation
Using our custom API allows you to target the specific category regulation that meets your needs. You do not have to retrieve all the regulations, and we can filter certain regulation categories to reduce unused data on your system. For example, GDPR or
2. Obtain customized information
With the help of AI-driven technology, we can help you to obtain customized information from all of available regulations on our database. It will simplify your effort to extract information from official regulation documents into a data-structured format.
3. Monitor data from official government publication
ChatScopeAI custom API is developed to track official regulations based on the government websites. Instead of selecting all countries, you can request a customization API to monitor data from certain jurisdictions.
4. Get a budget-friendly premium API service
Considering our custom API is relatively cheaper than the regular API. It is because you can obtain multiple responses with a single API customization request. It means you are allowed to get as much data as possible with a single credit, while using the regular feature from the ChatScopeAI app only delivers one credit for each process.
For instance, if you are using our application, it serves only one process to find a regulation or request a query with one credit. Whereas one custom API call allows you to obtain several data categories at the same time, (eg. data privacy, trade-related regulation, and safety product compliance).
Example of custom APIs that can be built to track updates
To better understand how our custom API works, we have provided four examples of ChatScopeAI API customization charts based on categories. All of the categories have their own regulations, and we can specifically customize only the regulations you need and exclude other regulations that you don’t need. So, it will simplify your work and enhance your productivity.
1. Custom API for tracking data privacy regulation
2. Custom API for tracking safety product requirements
3. Custom API for tracking environmental and sustainability regulations
4. Custom API for tracking employment and labor regulations
Integrating API into your system
Using ChatScopeAI’s custom API development means you can integrate your system with our database. This will make it easier for you to retrieve customized regulations available on our database. Check this chart to get a better understanding of how the integration of our database to your system works to track regulatory updates.
Build your own custom API with ChatScopeAI now. For more information about pricing and to receive our proposal, contact us at contact@chatscopeai.com