Online restaurant guide, Zomato has released a Public API, allowing developers to create apps integrating content featured on Zomato, reports Penn Olson. According to Zomato, developers will be able to offer updated information such as restaurant listings, location coordinates, reviews, discounts, photos, menus across 18,000 listings from its website, within their apps through the API. It has also provided an API Sandbox, where developers can test their requests. The API is free to use. It looks like Zomato is keen on building a complete ecosystem surrounding its restaurant guide service. This will enable developers of local search apps to integrate the service, facilitating users, while Zomato's role will be greater in the hyper-local space, in the coming time. The fact that Zomato's own apps use the same API, coes as an assurance to developers. Zomato also intends to promote apps that feature its API…
