Introducing Mobile Health Library: A Plethora of Prescription API Integrations
Introducing Buncee LLC: Two New Photo Prints API Integrations
Walgreens is proud to announce two new iPad app integrations of the Photo Prints API from the team over at Buncee LLC, Buncee Pro and Buncee Edu.
Buncee Pro and Buncee for Edu are two creative, flexible applications that enable users to quickly and easily make cards, scrapbooks, collages, digital stories and more. With the Walgreens Photo Prints API integration, Buncee users can not only save a Buncee to their photo stream, post it to their favorite social networks, or e-mail it to friends and family, they can now also share it as a same-day personalized professional print.
Commenting on the new integration, buncee Founder & CEO Marie Arturi states, "With the Walgreens Photo Prints API integration, our users can turn their creations into high-quality prints they can easily pick up at any Walgreens across the nation. Our iPad users have always been able to share their creations digitally, and we are now proud to say they can also easily share beautifully printed buncees with family and friends.”
Bring out your artistic and creative side, download Buncee Pro and Buncee Edu for the iPad today!
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:
