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We Attended: Mobile Photo Connect 2016
We were very excited to be a Gold Sponsor and attend the annual Mobile Photo Connect Conference this year at the beautiful Golden Gate Club inside the Persidio area of San Fransisco. We learned and taught others about all the great things happening in the Mobile Photo Industry! Kartik Subramanian spoke to the how monetizing photo applications through mobile output can be acheived with our Photo Prints API. Drew Schweinfurth did an awesome Show & Tell session showing off our Native Photo Prints API and partners that have integrated it!
This years awards went out to some great applications, they went to:
- Best of Show Award: Funimate, by Funimate
- Best Business Potential Award: JPEGmini, by Beamr
- Best Technology Award: Keegan, by Regaind
- Special Recognition Award: Keepy, by Keepy
These applications were apart of the many Show & Tell session that happened this year, and they do some really amazing things. Funimate, generates multi-animated video loops into a single video loop. JPEGmini, allows photo compression without losing any quality! Keegan, the first ever photography artificial intelligence that tells you what is and what is not a good photo with a hilariously french attitude. Lastly, Keepy, allowing parents and other family members to "Keep" artwork or photographs with memorible video and audio recordings. So, as you can tell, this year was jam packed with all sorts of innovative technologies!
As per required standards, many photos were taken at the event and we on the Walgreens API team happened to be in some of them, we gathered a collection of the event here: https://goo.gl/photos/1oTdQDapo8W9WWkR9
Thank you to everyone that was at the event and we look forwards to seeing even more people at the event next year!
Sincerly,
The Walgreens API Team
Announcing New API: Healthcare Clinic Scheduler!
The Walgreens API team is very excited to announce our newest service, the Healthcare Clinic Scheduler API!
Introduction:
The Walgreens Healthcare Clinic Appointment Scheduler API allows developers to enable their mobile applications to quickly allow customers to schedule an appointment at any Walgreens Healthcare Clinic across the United States.
Locations:
Currently, Walgreens has approximately 400 Healthcare Clinic locations throughout the nation, and we're always looking to open new clinics to provide improved access to quality family healthcare for our patients.
Visit Times:
While visit times vary by location, time of day and season, patients typically experience less than a 20-minute wait before they are seen by a healthcare provider. Patient visits generally take 20 minutes, which means you can be in and out in under an hour.
Learn More:
Balance Rewards API Updates
We want to let you know about some healthy changes we have now implemented for the Balance Rewards API.
New General Exercise Activity Type:
We have added the ability for you to post activities like:
- Weight Lifting
- Push-Ups
- Sit-Ups
- Cross-Fit
- Jump-Rope
- Rowing
- Yoga
- etc...
All you need to do is send the activity type as:
Along with the duration of the activity in seconds:
"duration": 1200,
"type": "cross-fit"
}
This will reward your users once a day for 20 points*
New Points Total Endpoint:
We have opened up a new endpoint, and we think it will really reward your integrations. The new Balance Rewards points endpoint:
Gives your app the ability to use the oAuth tokens you already have for your users to get the total number of Balance Rewards points a user has!
POST: /api/steps/brpoints/v1?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY {
"access_token": "ACCESS_TOKEN",
"affiliate_id": "AFFILIATE_ID",
"transaction_id": "1234567890123456",
"act":"getBRPoints"
}
Sample Response:
{
"healthy_choice_points": 10940,
"total_rewards_points": 10940,
"transaction_id": "1234567890123456"
}
Upcoming Rate Limiting Changes:
We going to be adding in some rate limiting on March 26th, 2015 at 12:00 AM CST.
So what does this mean?
| Endpoint | Requests Per Minute (RPM) |
|---|---|
| /api/steps/brpoints/v1 | 500 RPM |
| /api/steps/activity/v1 | 500 RPM |
| /api/oauthtoken/delete/v1 | 500 RPM |
| /api/oauthtoken/v1 | 500 RPM |
The Rate limiting amount was based upon the highest activity we had seen from a review done of the current integrations.
Let us know if you have any concerns via a quick message to our email address below.
*Disclaimer: Daily limit of 20 points for general exercise fitness activities (one award per day).
Coming Soon: Walgreens Cards for Google Now!
Walgreens has partnered with Google to create an even more convenient shopping experience with Now cards in the Google app. When you have the Walgreens app installed, your Balance® Rewards barcode will automatically appear when you enter a Walgreens store, so you’re ready to check out before you even start shopping. For this Now card and many more, just tap the Google app icon on your Android device.
Sample Card Below:
20% Off All QuickPrints Orders
SAVE NOW! Download any integrated Walgreens QuickPrints API apps and get 20% off your order with the coupon code QPSAVE* today! Check out our latest and greatest list of integrations in our QuickPrints App Showcase blog.
* Coupon code QPSAVE valid thru December 31, 2015 on integrated Walgreens QuickPrints API applications. Code must be entered in the mobile app QuickPrints checkout flow to apply discount. Timing will be determined by Walgreens server clock. Discount does not apply to previous purchases or taxes. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Offer valid on integrated Walgreens QuickPrints API applications only. Walgreens reserve the right to expire the offer at any time. In store sales associates reserve the right to monitor and prevent offer abuse.