The popularity of riding bikes has been rising for years, and has soared during the pandemic, for a number of reasons including health, economic, and social & environmental. Developers wanting to create applications around cycling should check out ProgrammableWeb’s top nine APIs for Cycling.<\/b>
\nChances are if you live an urban, suburban or even rural area, you have noticed an increased amount of cyclists on roadways and trails in the last few years. The popularity of riding bikes has been rising for years, and has soared during the pandemic, for a number of reasons including health, economic, and social & environmental. The health benefits to cycling include increased cardiovascular fitness, increased joint mobility, decreased stress levels, better coordination, increased muscle strength, weight lost via burned body fat, improved posture, and improved balance. The economic benefit to cycling for transportation are obvious; bikes are less expensive than cars and pubic transportation, and not needing gas is free. The social & environmental benefits to biking include decreasing traffic, decreasing carbon emissions, cutting noise pollution, saving space with parking, using less resources for manufacturing purposes, less rubber, reduced water pollution from motor oils and antifreeze, and less animals killed on the road. Developers wishing to create applications for cycling and cyclists need the proper APIs to get the job done. A Cycling API is an Application Programming Interface that enables developers to collect data about cycling, bikes, cyclists and related topics, and use that data in their own applications. In this article, the top nine APIs from the Cycling category in the ProgrammableWeb directory are detailed, based on web page visits. The Garmin Health API enables developers to leverage health and activity data from Garmin wearable devices. It is intended to be used for such applications as corporate wellness, population health, and patient monitoring. There are methods available to collect data about steps, sleep, calories, heart rate, stress, intensity minutes, body composition and more. Thirty types of activity are monitored including running, cycling, paddle boarding, swimming and more. User consent is required for data retrieval. Documentation is available to registered developers. Bike Share Research (BSR) is an online Resource for Bike-Sharing system (BSS) information and data gathering, that provides the comprehensive structured data required for the many fields of BSS research. The Bike Share Research API allows users to get Bicycle sharing system (BSS) data by country or category. MTB Project is a crowdsourced mountain bike trail information website run by volunteers and backed by REI’s Adventure Projects, Inc. The MTB Project Data API provides publicly available mountain bike trail data. JSON is the preferred response format. The API returns the trails for a given query, trails for a given ID, conditions for a trail, and up to 200 of the user’s to-dos. Screenshot: Adventure Projects CityBikes is an application that provides bike sharing networks information in numerous countries. Users can search by location to find bike sharing networks, locations, and information. The CityBikes API allows developers to access and integrate the CityBikes data and functionality for Integration with other applications. API methods include searching and retrieving bike sharing network information and IDs. Unofficial Peloton API enables users to programmatically access data from Peloton exercise cycling Platform. Developers can retrieve data about users, rides, public, instructors, workouts, references, favorites, reservations, challenge and more with the API. This API is not officially associated with Peloton Interactive, Inc. Also of Interest: 8 Top Parking APIs Bike Index API enables users to search for bikes on a registry, with the aim to recover stolen bicycles. API methods are available to get users, manage bike operations, manufacturers and search for bikes by front gear types, handlebar types, frame materials, color, etc. Social Bicycles is a bike ride-sharing platform for cyclists in small towns or metropolitan cities, corporate workers, or university students. The platform has a similar model to Zipcar, in which riders reserve a bike online or at a bike hub, and then park the ride at any hub one they have reached their destination. The SocialBicycles API Track this API provides bike parking areas, mapped rides and statistics, CO2 reduced, calories burned, and money saved versus driving in REST architecture. BikeReg Builds services that provide a way to manage online cycling event registrations. The BikeReg Event Search API allows users to access cycling event search data with and get event calendar results. Cycling Analytics offers software for cyclists. Using a bike, a heart rate monitor, a device and an account, cyclists can monitor performance on the road. The Cycling API returns data about laps, geographical locations and histograms for analysis. Image: Cycling Analytics<\/p>\n