API Evangelist

I am Kin Lane, the API Evangelist...

This is my online domain where I work to understand the world of the Application Programming Interfaces, also known as APIs. This new way of sharing data using the web is touching almost every aspect of our increasingly digital lives, providing access to the bits and bytes that make our personal and professional worlds go round.

This is my research specifically into how API consumers are finding APIs, and the API providers are helping make their APIs more discoverable as part of the API lifecycle. This is an extension of my work on APIs.json, which was born out of my work on the White House data.json data inventory work across the federal government.

API Evangelist is a network of data driven projects and APIs which I curate and manage as part of this ongoing research, hoping to provide easy access to the moving parts of my work. Everything you see here runs on Github, making everything forkable, and reusable for both humans and machines.

API Evangelist Partners

These are my partners who invest in API Evangelist each month, helping underwrite my research, and making sure I'm able to keep monitoring the API space as I do.

Streamdata.io

Streamdata is a software vendor making real-time data accessible to all by operating a proxy turning request / response APIs into feeds of real-time events.

Uptrends

Uptrends is the ultimate monitoring tool to stay in control of the uptime, performance, and functionality of your websites, APIs, and servers.

3Scale

3scale makes it easy to open, secure, distribute, control and monetize APIs, that is built with performance, customer control and excellent time-to-value in mind.

Latest From Blog on API Design: Discover, Profile, Quantify, Rank, And Publish New APIs To The Streamdata.io API Gallery

19 Jul 2018

About 60% of my work these days is building upon the last five years of my API Stack research, with a focus on building out the Streamdata.io API Gallery. We are fine tuning our approach for discovering new API-driven resources from across the landscape, while also profiling, quantifying, ranking, and publishing to the Streamdata.io API Gallery, The API Stack, and potentially other locations like the Postman Network, APIs.Guru, and other API discovery destinations I am working with. Helping us make sense of the increasingly noisy API landscape, while identifying the most valuable resources, and then profiling them to help reduce friction when it comes to potentially on-boarding and streaming data from each resource.

Discover New API-Driven Resources

Finding new APIs isn’t too difficult, you just have to Google for them. Finding new APIs in an automated way, with minimum human interaction becomes a little more difficult, but there are some proven ways to get the job done. There is no single place to go find new APIs, so I’ve refined a list of common place I use to discover new APIs:

Search Engines - Using search engine APIs to look for APIs based upon the vocabulary we’ve developed.
Github - Github provides a wealth of signals when it comes to APIs, and we use the Github API to discover interesting sources using our vocabulary.
Stack Overflow - Using the Stack Exchange API, we are able to keep an eye out for developers talking about different types of interesting APIs.
Twitter - The social network still provides some interesting signals when it comes to discussions about interesting APis.
Reddit - There are many developers who still use Reddit to discuss technical topics, and ask questions about the APIs they are using.

Using the topic and entity vocabulary we’ve been developing, we can automate the discovery of new APIs across these sources using their APIs. Helping track on signals for the existing APIs we are keeping an eye on, but also quickly identify new APIs that we can add to the queue. Giving us the URL of companies, organizations, institutions, and government agencies who are doing interesting things with APIs.

Profile New Domains That Come In

Our API discovery engine produces a wealth of URLs for us to look at to understand the potential for new data, content, and algorithmic API resources. Our profiling process begins with a single URL, which we then use as the seed for a series of automated jobs that help us understand what an entity is all about:

Description - Develop the most informative and concise description of what an entity does, including a set of rich meta tags.
Developer - Identify where their developer and API program exists, for quantifying what they do.
Blog - Find their blog, and supporting RSS feed so we can tune into what they are saying.
Press - Also find their press section, and RSS feed so we can tune into the press about them.
Twitter - Find their Twitter account so that we can tune into their social stream.
LinkedIn - Find their LinkedIn account so that we can tune into their social stream.
Github - Find their Github account so we can find more about what they are building.
Contact - Establish a way to contact each entity, in case we have any questions or need support.
Other - Identify other common building blocks like support, pricing, and terms of services that helps us understand what is going on.

The profiling process provides us with a framework to understand what an entity is all about, and where they fit into the bigger picture of the API landscape. Most of the sources of information we profile have some sort of machine readable component, allowing us to further quantify the entity, and better understand the value they bring to the table.

Quantify Each Entity

Next up we want to quantify each of the entities we’ve profiled, to give us a better understanding of the scope of their operations, and further define where they fit into the API landscape. We are looking for as much detail about what they are up to so we can know where we should be investing our time and energy reaching out and developing deeper relationships.

API - We profile their APIs, generating an OpenAPI definition that describes the entire surface area of their APIs.
Applications - Define approximately how many applications are running on an API, and how many developers are actively using.
Blog - Pull all their blog posts, including the history, and actively pull on daily basis.
Press - Pull all their press releases, including the history, and actively pull on daily basis.
Twitter - Pull all their Tweets and mentions, including the history, and actively pull on daily basis.
Github - Pull all their repos, stars, followers, and commit history, understand more about what they are building.
Other - Pull other relevant signals from Reddit, Stack Overflow, AngelList, CrunchBase, SEC, Alexa Rank, ClearBit, and other important platform signals.

By pulling all the relevant signals for any entity we’ve profiled, we can better understand the scope of their operations, and assess the reach of their network. Helping us further quantity the value and opportunity that exists with each entity we are profiling, before we spend much more time on integrating.

Ranking Each Entity

After we’ve profiled and quantify an entity, we like to rank them, and put them into different buckets, so that we can prioritize which ones we reach out to, and which ones we invest more resources in monitoring, tracking, and integrating with. We currently rank them on a handful of criteria, using our own vocabulary and ranking formula.

Provider Signals - Rank their activity and relevance based upon signals within their control.
Community Signals - Rank their activity based upon signals the community generates about them.
Analyst Signals - Rank their activity based upon signals from the analyst community.
StreamRank - Rank the activity of their data, content, and API-driven resources.
Topically - Understand the value of the activity based upon the topics that are available.

Our ranking of each entity gives us an overall score derived from several different dimensions. Helping us understand the scope, as well as the potential value for each set of APIs, allowing us to further prioritize which entities we invest more time and resources into, maximizing our efforts when it comes to deeper, more technical integrations, and streaming of data into any potential data lake.

Publishing APIs To The Gallery

Once an entity has been profiled, quantified, and ranked, we publish the profile to the gallery for discovery. Some of the more interesting APIs we hold back on a little bit, and share with partners and customers who are looking for interesting data sources via landscape analysis reports, but once we are ready we publish the entity to a handful of potential locations:

Streamdata.io API Gallery - The distributed gallery owned and operated by Streamdata.io
The API Stack - My own research area for profiling APIs that I’ve run for five years.
APIs.guru - We are working on the best way to submit OpenAPI definitions to our friends here.
Postman Network - For APIs that we validate, and generate working Postman Collections.
APIs.io - Publishing to the machine readable API search engine for indexing.
Other - We have a network of other aggregation, discovery, and related sites we are working with.

Because each entity is published to its own Github repository, with an APIs.json, OpenAPI, and Postman Collection defining its operations, once published, each entity becomes forkable. Making each gallery entry something anyone can fork, download and directly integrate into their existing systems and applications.

Keep Discovering, Profiling, Quantifying, and Publishing

This work is never ending. We’ll just keep discovery, profiling, quantifying, and publishing useful APIs to the gallery, and beyond. Since we benchmark APIs, we’ll be monitoring APIs that go away and we’ll archive them in the listings. We’ll also be actively quantifying each entity, by tuning into their blogs, press, Twitter, and Github accounts looking for interesting activity about what they are doing. Keeping our finger on the pulse of what each entity is up to, as well as what the scope and activity within their community is all about.

This project began as an API Evangelist project to understand how to keep up with the changing API space, and then evolved into a landscape analysis and lead generation tool for Streamdata.io, but now has become an engine for identifying valuable data and content resources. Providing a powerful discover engine for finding valuable data sources, but when combined with what Streamdata.io does, it also allows you to tune into the most important signals across all these entities being profiled, and stream the resulting data and signals into data lakes within your own existing cloud infrastructure, for use in training machine learning models, dashboards, and other relevant applications.

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API Discovery News

These are the news items I've curated in my monitoring of the API space that have some relevance to the API definition conversation and I wanted to include in my research. I'm using all of these links to better understand how the space is testing their APIs, going beyond just monitoring and understand the details of each request and response.

Title	Source	Visit
Continuously Deployed And Integrated API Discovery Built Into The Streamdata.io API Gallery (2018-06-01)	streamdata.io
API Autodiscovery in Anypoint Platform 2 (2018-05-24)	dzone.com
MuleSoft CTO and Sir Tim Berners (2018-05-14)	diginomica.com
Streamdata.io API Gallery Topics (2018-04-20)	streamdata.io
How API Authentication And Pricing Impact Stream Rank (2018-04-09)	streamdata.io
Microsoft releases its Azure Service Fabric to open source (2018-03-15)	sdtimes.com
The Good Collection – Postman Blog (2018-03-09)	blog.getpostman.com
Understand service discovery in microservice (2018-03-09)	medium.com
German API integration startup CloudRail announces $672K seed investment (2018-02-01)	techcrunch.com
Serverless Service Discovery – Part 1: Get Started (2018-01-06)	aws.amazon.com
6 Interesting APIs to Check Out in 2018 (2018-01-01)	medium.com
Amazon Cloud Directory (2017-12-29)	searchaws.techtarget.com
Postman releases a directory for public APIs, API Network (2017-12-20)	sdtimes.com
Biggest library of API collections for Postman. (2017-12-20)	medium.com
Highly Available Docker Registry on AWS with Nexus (2017-12-16)	medium.com
Postman Announces Launch of its API Network (2017-12-15)	indianceo.in
Postman API Network launched for developers: Here's how it will help (2017-12-15)	techobserver.in
Postman Launches API Network (2017-12-15)	www.itbusinessedge.com
How To Make A Self (2017-11-21)	nordicapis.com
Making Algorithms Discoverable and Composable (2017-10-31)	blog.algorithmia.com
Github wants to make it easy to discover fun projects to hack on (2017-10-11)	thenextweb.com
Querying IBM Watson Discovery with Salesforce Federated Search (2017-09-26)	developer.salesforce.com
AWS EC2 Container Registry (ECR) Support (2017-09-11)	circleci.com
Building Business Systems with Domain (2017-08-18)	www.nginx.com
JSON Home: Why, What, and How (with Clojure) (2017-08-14)	medium.com
Red Hat updates OpenShift container platform with new service catalog (2017-08-09)	techcrunch.com
What’s New in OpenShift 3.6 – Service Catalog & Brokers (Tech Preview) (2017-08-09)	blog.openshift.com
draft (2017-08-02)	tools.ietf.org
Get a Snapshot of your Digital Footprint to Understand your Attack Surface (2017-07-25)	www.riskiq.com
Choosing the Correct AWS Directory Service Option (2017-07-19)	blog.rackspace.com
Create a WSO2 ESB API that return the request as the reponse (2017-07-18)	medium.com
The Codefresh Build Platform Gets a Free Private Docker Registry (2017-07-13)	thenewstack.io
Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture (2017-07-03)	www.nginx.com
A guide to RESTful API design: 35+ must (2017-06-30)	techbeacon.com
Service Discovery on OpenShift Using Multicast (2017-06-29)	blog.openshift.com
StdLib — Function as a Service Software Library (2017-06-28)	stdlib.com
A Collective List Of APIs, Go Build Something. (2017-06-28)	apilist.fun
New on Hitch: Your API profile, customized! (2017-06-28)	medium.com
Swagger, the API Economy, REST, Linked Data, and a Semantic Web (2017-06-24)	medium.com
10 Things I Hate About Your API — Amanda Folson (2017-06-22)	medium.com
The Microservice Design Canvas (2017-06-22)	www.apiacademy.co
Developing RESTful APIs with Kotlin (2017-06-22)	medium.com
Rapid’s marketplace for every API – GET PUT POST (2017-06-21)	getputpost.co
Introducing the Chunked Upload API (2017-06-20)	medium.com
4 Mantras for Designing Scalable APIs (2017-06-20)	nordicapis.com
Twitter API: Cursoring (2017-06-19)	medium.com
RESTful Services (2017-06-16)	developers.redhat.com
Best Practices for API Error Handling (2017-06-15)	nordicapis.com
API design fundamentals: usage driven design (2017-06-14)	medium.com
Scenarios v3.3 Update (2017-06-12)	medium.com
REST API for Dummies: The Store Metaphor (2017-06-12)	medium.com
RESTful Services (2017-06-11)	medium.com
The Definitive Guide for building REST APIs (2017-06-10)	medium.com
Transclude Preference for the HTTP Prefer Header (2017-06-09)	rawgit.com
Amazon API Gateway Enables Customization of Error Responses (2017-06-06)	aws.amazon.com
New: Use Amazon Cloud Directory Typed Links to Create and Search Relationships Across Hierarchies (2017-06-02)	aws.amazon.com
New: Use Amazon Cloud Directory Typed Links to Create and Search Relationships Across Hierarchies (2017-06-02)	aws.amazon.com
New: Use Amazon Cloud Directory Typed Links to Create and Search Relationships Across Hierarchies (2017-06-02)	aws.amazon.com
Office Dev Center (2017-06-02)	dev.office.com
Three Principles of API First Design (2017-06-02)	medium.com
Amazon rejects AI2’s Alexa skill voice (2017-05-31)	techcrunch.com
REST API Design Tips from Experience (2017-05-30)	medium.com
Service (2017-05-30)	www.bmc.com
Accordion APIs How (2017-05-30)	medium.com
Using the Cloud Directory APIs (2017-05-27)	docs.aws.amazon.com
Using the Cloud Directory APIs (2017-05-27)	docs.aws.amazon.com
Using the Cloud Directory APIs (2017-05-27)	docs.aws.amazon.com
Which wordlist endpoints would be useful for you? — API Developer Community (2017-05-27)	forum.oxforddictionaries.com
Recently posted on our blog at www.lunchbadger.com (2017-05-25)	medium.com
RFC 3117 (2017-05-25)	tools.ietf.org
Robustness principle (2017-05-25)	www.wikiwand.com
Why you should follow the robustness principle in your APIs (2017-05-25)	engineering.klarna.com
API Lifecycle: Design Stage (Part 2 of 4) (2017-05-24)	medium.com
Pagination, Filtering, and Sorting — API Working Group 0.0.1.dev223 documentation (2017-05-23)	specs.openstack.org
Sorting — Twitter Developers (2017-05-23)	dev.twitter.com
REST API Sorting Paging and Filtering (2017-05-23)	www.thrinacia.com
The API Marketplace Joins RapidAPI (2017-05-23)	medium.com
The API Marketplace Joins RapidAPI (2017-05-23)	blog.mashape.com
Mashape’s API Marketplace is now part of RapidAPI (2017-05-23)	medium.com
The Resource Groups Tagging API Makes It Easier to List Your Resources by Using a New Pagination Parameter (2017-05-22)	aws.amazon.com
The Resource Groups Tagging API Makes It Easier to List Your Resources by Using a New Pagination Parameter (2017-05-22)	aws.amazon.com
API Design: Think First, Code Later (2017-05-20)	cheesecakelabs.com
The four levels of consistency in API design (2017-05-18)	restlet.com
Home · mgboydcom/City (2017-05-17)	github.com
A Comparison of Mapping Approaches for Distributed Cloud Applications (2017-05-16)	medium.com
Tweet: 4 Methods to Make Your #API Truly Discoverable by @DoerrfeldBill: https://t.co/Rod1TVg1tu (2017-05-11)	twitter.com
Is Data Discovery Just a Buzzword? (2017-05-11)	dzone.com
Mapping your organization with the Google Cloud Platform resource hierarchy (2017-05-11)	cloudplatform.googleblog.com
Tweet: REST Anti-Patterns https://t.co/EC42OtetFw via @InfoQ (2017-05-10)	twitter.com
Oracle API Platform Cloud Enables Customers to Drive Business Transformation and DesignFirst (2017-05-10)	www.prnewswire.com
Putting gRPC multilanguage support to the test (2017-05-08)	cloudplatform.googleblog.com
8 Steps to Help Your API be Forward Compatible (2017-05-07)	www.programmableweb.com
The two perspectives of API design (2017-05-06)	restlet.com
Tweet RT restlet The two perspectives of API design by apihandyman httpstcodM5qOjuSkp httpstcoEsquxdyEdn (2017-05-05)	twitter.com
Yelp Adds GraphQL Support to Fusion API Introduces Developer Beta Program (2017-05-05)	www.programmableweb.com
Building for Builders Stripe039s 8 Tips for Designing APIs and Supporting Developers (2017-05-04)	www.programmableweb.com
REST API Industry Debate OData vs GraphQL vs ORDS (2017-05-03)	www.progress.com
The two perspectives of API design (2017-05-03)	restlet.com
Little rules for designing with data (2017-05-02)	github.com
API Mediation Why You Need an API Experience Layer (2017-05-01)	nordicapis.com
ResourceCentric API Calls Switching Up the Cloud Elements Hubs (2017-04-28)	dzone.com
gRPCWeb Moving past RESTJSON towards typesafe Web APIs (2017-04-27)	spatialos.improbable.io
Summarizing requests (2017-04-26)	www.apiful.io
Manage your gRPC APIs with Google Cloud Endpoints (2017-04-26)	cloudplatform.googleblog.com
Tweet 7 Tips for Designing a Better REST API httpstco7QQsjLd33P (2017-04-25)	twitter.com
What is the difference between API Design and API Architecture APIUniversity (2017-04-25)	api-university.com
Introducing ProtocolOriented BDD in Swift for iOS Apps Part 1 (2017-04-25)	dzone.com
Deliveroo API Design Guidelines added to the API Stylebook (2017-04-25)	apihandyman.io
Introduction To MS Graph Explorer (2017-04-25)	www.c-sharpcorner.com
Using field masks with update requests to Google APIs (2017-04-21)	gsuite-developers.googleblog.com
7 Tips for Designing a Better REST API (2017-04-20)	www.kennethlange.com
SOAP vs REST A Look at Two Different API Styles (2017-04-20)	www.business2community.com
Announcing 5 Partners That Have Achieved AWS Service Partner Status for AWS Service Catalog (2017-04-20)	aws.amazon.com
Is Protobuf 5x Faster Than JSON Part 2 (2017-04-20)	dzone.com
Building an API lessons learned the hard way part 2 (2017-04-19)	medium.com
Microservices APIs and Swagger How They Fit Together (2017-04-19)	dzone.com
4 Methods to Make Your API Truly Discoverable (2017-04-18)	blog.runscope.com
Simplicity Utility x Data Success (2017-04-13)	blog.mparticle.com
Tweet Materia v07 is now available httpstcooPDC7PPxXt User Management Addon SendGrid ampamp mailjet Addons Permissions management (2017-04-12)	twitter.com
Restlet Studio Supports RAML 10 API Specification (2017-04-12)	www.programmableweb.com
The 5 Basic API Design Paradigms (2017-04-10)	blog.cloudobjects.io
API Design Standards With Andy Beier (2017-04-07)	businessintelligence.com
The troubles with APIs: security, discovery, bulk loading (2017-04-06)	www.zdnet.com
ALM Rest API posting design steps (2017-04-06)	community.hpe.com
You should not try to normalise the vocabulary across all Bounded Contexts pcalcado (2017-04-05)	philcalcado.com
7 Tips for Developing Great APIs (2017-04-05)	www.designnews.com
Using field masks with Google APIs for partial response (2017-04-05)	developers.googleblog.com
API Design on the Scale of Decades (2017-04-04)	nordicapis.com
API design for machine learning software experiences from the scikitlearn project (2017-03-22)	arxiv.org
BigCommerce uses Postman before a single line of code is written (2017-03-21)	blog.getpostman.com
RESTful SNMP Over HTTP Part III (2017-03-20)	dzone.com
RESTful SNMP Over HTTP Part II (2017-03-20)	dzone.com
Introducing Muon (2017-03-18)	daviddawson.me
Setting Up a Docker Private Registry With Authentication Using Nexus and NGINX (2017-03-18)	dzone.com
Service Discovery (Part 2): Java, a Database App, and Kubernetes (2017-03-17)	dzone.com
A Nice API Design Gem Strategy Pattern With Lambdas (2017-03-16)	blog.jooq.org
ProgrammableWeb API Directory Eclipses 17,000 as API Economy Continues Surge (2017-03-13)	www.programmableweb.com
Our new Amazon Cloud Directory API makes it easier to query data along multiple dimensions! (2017-03-09)	aws.amazon.com
Is GraphQL The End of REST Style APIs (2017-03-09)	nordicapis.com
Ultimate Guide to API Design (2017-03-08)	blog.qmo.io
Two Forgotten Aspects to an API Design First Approach (2017-03-08)	medium.com
4 Ways Your API Is Not Quite What I Want (2017-03-08)	zapier.com
Two Forgotten Aspects to an API Design First Approach (2017-03-08)	medium.com
API Eventing Is The Next Big Opportunity For API Providers (2017-03-07)	tyk.io
Autocomplete and tooltips for variables are now live (2017-03-07)	blog.getpostman.com
Google API Design Guide added to the API Stylebook (2017-03-05)	apihandyman.io
Tweet On my todo list for this week end adding the googlecloud API design guidelines to the httpstco7SladfsXcYhellip httpstcodBxrxEd7iN (2017-03-04)	twitter.com
Arent 301s 302s and Canonicals All Basically the Same (2017-03-03)	moz.com
CoreDNS for Kubernetes Service Discovery, Take 2 (2017-03-01)	community.infoblox.com
Designing APIs With RAML (2017-03-01)	dzone.com
REST over WebSockets instead of HTTP (2017-02-25)	medium.com
API Design Guide Cloud APIs Google Cloud Platform (2017-02-22)	cloud.google.com
API update Scroll API Segments and rate limits (2017-02-22)	medium.com
Designing robust and predictable APIs with idempotency (2017-02-21)	stripe.com
Writing OpenAPI Swagger Specification Tutorial Part 9 Extending the OpenAPI specification (2017-02-19)	apihandyman.io
Article Untangling an APIfirst Transformation at Scale Lessons Learnt at PayPal Part 1 (2017-02-17)	www.infoq.com
Implementing DomainDriven Design in PHP (2017-02-15)	dzone.com
ConsumerOriented API Design (2017-02-15)	api-university.com
Modeldriven RESTful API for CRUD and more (2017-02-14)	www.codeproject.com
Endpoint Search Comes to API Harmony (2017-02-14)	www.apiful.io
Amazon Cloud Directory is a directory store for your application’s hierarchical data. (2017-02-11)	docs.aws.amazon.com
An Overview of ExperienceBased API Integration Patterns (2017-02-10)	dzone.com
The Simple Guide to HTTP Verbs PATCH PUT and POST (2017-02-08)	dzone.com
HTML APIs What They Are And How To Design A Good One (2017-02-07)	newze.net
Azure Service Profiler review – How does it fit in your toolbox? (2017-02-07)	stackify.com
Use a Local API to Protect Global Methods in a Distributed Environment (2017-02-07)	www.codeproject.com
Visualising complex APIs using API Map (2017-02-04)	hackernoon.com
API Design Collaboration tool (2017-02-02)	devkraken.wordpress.com
Designing a True REST State Machine (2017-01-31)	nordicapis.com
Service Portfolio vs. Service Catalog: What’s The Difference? (2017-01-30)	www.bmc.com
API Harmony Hits the Next Major Version (2017-01-20)	www.apiful.io
Service discovery and deployment orchestration with Consul in the... (2017-01-19)	jakon.me
Looking for commonality among HTTP request APIs (2017-01-16)	snarky.ca
Signatures with PUT vs POST (2017-01-14)	forums.asp.net
Apps metadata for API discovery and code generation (2017-01-13)	docs.microsoft.com
Tweet: Data synchronization - part 1 : Service Discovery and Leader election https://t.co/YOxFAqRFvE by @nikom1337 (2017-01-12)	twitter.com
Building Your API for Longevity Part 1 SpecDriven Development (2017-01-06)	www.nginx.com
3 Ways to Make Your API Responses Flexible (2017-01-05)	zapier.com
zalandorestfulapiguidelines A model set of guidelines for RESTful APIs (2017-01-05)	github.com
On the Origins of APIFirst Companies (2017-01-04)	blog.readme.io
Protobuf Alternative to REST for Microservices (2017-01-03)	www.ensor.cc
DDD REST Domain Driven APIs for the Web (2017-01-02)	www.infoq.com
Beautiful Node APIs (2017-01-01)	webapplog.com
Creating a Simple Android REST Client Using HTTPRPC (2016-12-29)	dzone.com
Modernizing Legacy PHP apps with APIs (2016-12-28)	leanpub.com
Future of APIs (2016-12-19)	medium.com
The Power of OpenClosed Principle (2016-12-19)	dzone.com
New – AWS Application Discovery Service Console (2016-12-19)	aws.amazon.com
API Design for C epub (2016-12-18)	thywifyjudit.full-design.com
Introducing the Watson Discovery Service: Content full of lemons? Turn it into lemonade. (2016-12-15)	www.ibm.com
API Modeling A ZeroCode Way To a Designer API (2016-12-14)	www.tibco.com
Foundations of RESTful Architecture (2016-12-14)	dzone.com
7 Secrets to Designing Alexa Skills (2016-12-14)	dzone.com
Swagger toolbox (2016-11-12)	swagger-toolbox.firebaseapp.com
OpenAPI GUI (2016-11-12)	mermade.github.io
Learning how to invoke IBM Alchemy Data News through API Harmony (2016-11-08)	www.apiful.io
Announcing the New Apigee Edge Experience Apigee (2016-11-07)	apigee.com
CoreDNS for Kubernetes Service Discovery (2016-11-07)	community.infoblox.com
Introducing Detail Pages on Amazon.com to Increase Discovery and Use for Your Alexa Skills (2016-11-04)	developer.amazon.com
Building The LinkedIn Knowledge Graph (2016-11-02)	engineering.linkedin.com
Why I Dont Like UPDATE Methods In API Design (2016-11-02)	www.bennadel.com
Cataloging Microservices (2016-11-01)	dzone.com
Introduction to APIFirst Design (2016-10-31)	www.programmableweb.com
Introducing Seamless Source Control Integration With Bitbucket and SwaggerHub (2016-10-31)	dzone.com
Designing better Web APIs Part I arefscom (2016-10-19)	arefs.com
From Good to Great API (2016-10-19)	api-university.com
API Usability Matters UX and CX is like DX and (2016-10-18)	dret.typepad.com
The API problem (2016-10-15)	medium.com
API Best Practices API Design (2016-10-14)	medium.com
TIBCO BWCE Leveraging Consul for Service Discovery and Configuration Management (2016-10-14)	www.tibco.com
Struggling with code to optimize how you chain APIs for advanced data analytics (2016-10-13)	community.havenondemand.com
API Best Practices API Design (2016-10-12)	medium.com
Web App Next Stop In Our Software Journey REST Services Part III (2016-10-12)	dzone.com
swaggergistio Saving and Versioning Swagger definitions (2016-10-10)	jordwalsh.com
Tweet Learn The importance of loose coupling in REST API design httpstcor7kuJ1KzIc httpstcowHUqOfBYPu (2016-10-06)	twitter.com
Designing and documenting your API (2016-10-06)	medium.com
Day 31 (2016-10-06)	medium.com
Functional Augmented State Transfer FAST Architecture for Computationally Intensive Network Applications (2016-10-06)	arxiv.org
A Web API ecosystem through featurebased reuse (2016-10-04)	arxiv.org
Why to Prioritize Your API Strategy Before Your API Design (2016-10-04)	www.programmableweb.com
Amazon Dash Button Detection via DHCP Discover (2016-10-04)	www.codeproject.com
Software backward compatibility undocumented APIs and importance of history etc (2016-10-03)	www.codeproject.com
Metaphors of Big Data (2016-10-01)	dismagazine.com
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Microsoft Publishes REST API Guidelines 23 (2016-07-21)	www.programmableweb.com
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InfoQ eMag: Description, Discovery, and Profiles - The Next Level in Web APIs (2015-08-18)	www.infoq.com
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Parse Adds New Schema API and API Console (2015-06-05)	www.infoq.com
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Introducing the Anypoint Platform for APIs (2014-07-30)	blogs.mulesoft.com
Best Practices REST API from Scratch - Introduction (2014-07-25)	www.sitepoint.com
Upcoming Webinar ? Integrating Salesforce and SAP (2014-07-25)	blogs.mulesoft.com
APIs: The Key to Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse? (2014-07-25)	www.mashery.com
Don?t just throw APIs at the problem! (2014-07-24)	blogs.mulesoft.com
HTTP Response Codes and You \| OP3Nvoice (2014-07-23)	clarify.io
Legos vs APIs ? Top Integration and API Articles of the Week (2014-07-18)	blogs.mulesoft.com
Hot off the Press: 18F?s API Standards (2014-07-16)	www.digitalgov.gov
The Real World Cup Winner: APIs (2014-07-16)	blogs.mulesoft.com
Hot off the press: 18Fs API Standards (2014-07-15)	18fblog.tumblr.com
API-Centric Data Architectures - Part II (2014-06-24)	apigee.com
What is a Developer Evangelist? (2014-06-23)	www.mashery.com
Designing Irresistible APIs (2014-06-19)	www.princesspolymath.com
Why You Should Care Netflix is Shuttering Its Public API (2014-06-18)	blogs.mulesoft.com
New eBook: APIs and IT Rationalization (2014-06-16)	apigee.com
What is the ?Internet of Things? and how does it relate to APIs? (2014-06-13)	www.mashery.com
The Connected K-9 (2014-06-09)	www.mashery.com
Happiness is a well-designed API \| ZDNet (2014-06-06)	www.zdnet.com
Wearables and Devices Will Drive a New Paradigm in Managing Clinical Data (2014-06-05)	www.mashery.com
API Manager ? Simple JAVA Client Access Example (2014-06-03)	blogs.mulesoft.com
JSON vs simpleJSON vs ultraJSON (2014-06-02)	blog.dataweave.in
Toward a Lean API Strategy (2014-05-29)	www.apiacademy.co
APIs, Connectors and Integration Applications (2014-04-17)	blogs.mulesoft.com
API documentation made beautiful with Apiary.io (2014-02-28)	www.itworld.com
FloridaSU Expands Innovation Lab with Cube 3D Printers (2014-02-28)	www.3dsystems.com
A Practical? by D. Keith Casey Jr (2014-02-27)	leanpub.com
Application Programming eXperience: It?s all about X - Mobile Apps Stuff (2014-01-28*)	manfredbo.tumblr.com
Jakub Nesetril, CEO of Apiary on Web APIs and Developer Experience (2014-01-28)	www.infoq.com
The Human Aspects of API Design: An Interview with Apiarys Jakub Nesetril (2013-11-14)	www.infoq.com
More Thoughts on an API Commons (2013-11-10)	www.3scale.net
Designing APIs for the Internet of Things (IoT) (2013-10-30)	www.apiacademy.co
APIs At The Heart of your Mobile App Strategy (2013-10-28)	blog.akana.com
How To Test REST API with API Blueprint and Dredd (2013-10-17)	blog.apiary.io
No more outdated API documentation! (2013-10-10)	blog.apiary.io
RAML - RESTful API modeling language (2013-10-02)	raml.org
New API Blueprint available at Apiary (2013-10-02)	blog.apiary.io
Apiary Is Growing (2013-09-17)	blog.apiary.io
Learn how to find the Opportunity of Data at the 2013 Business of APIs Conference in San Francisco (2013-09-05)	www.mashery.com
JSON and XML (2013-09-03)	developer.infoconnect.com
MASHERY I/O DOCS - DOCS THAT ROCK (2013-08-27)	www.mashery.com
Designing APIs for Asynchrony (2013-08-24)	blog.izs.me
Api Design, Part 2: Design Messaging Styles By Balancing... (2013-08-20)	www.forrester.com
Api Design, Part 3: Make Transactions And Error Handling... (2013-08-20)	www.forrester.com
Api Design, Part 4: Future-proof And Secure Your Apis... (2013-08-20)	www.forrester.com
Api Design, Part 1: Rest Is The Leading But Not Only... (2013-08-20)	www.forrester.com
The Secrets of Awesome JavaScript API Design (2013-08-16)	dzone.com
The Future of Medical Technology is Already in Your Hands (2013-08-08)	www.mashery.com
HOW USA TODAYS API POWERS PARTNERSHIPS (2013-08-06)	www.mashery.com
The Importance of Impermanence in API Design (2013-08-06)	www.programmableweb.com
The Future of TV and APIs (2013-08-01)	www.mashery.com
4 Fresh Rotten Tomatoes API Integrations (2013-07-31)	www.mashery.com
Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design (2013-07-27)	www.infoq.com
Unlock your datas Potential - Treat your APIs as Products (2013-07-12)	www.mashery.com
Micro Service Architecture (2013-07-09)	yobriefca.se
Treat Your API Users as Customers (2013-07-09)	www.mashery.com
API Design: A New Model for Pragmatic REST (2013-07-04)	blog.apigee.com
Signs youre veering from good API design (2013-07-03)	blog.apiaxle.com
API Design: Harnessing HATEOAS, Part 2 (2013-07-03)	blog.apigee.com
API Crafting Secrets: Into Flightstats APIs (2013-07-02)	www.3scale.net
Presenting your API as a Product ? Designing your API for Data Exchanges (2013-07-01)	www.mashery.com
Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect (2013-06-29)	tinydl.com
Better Rest API design 1 (2013-06-27)	hao-deng.blogspot.com
Present your API as a Product ? API Portal Presentation Best Practices (2013-06-26)	www.mashery.com
Get packing with Masherys API Packager (2013-06-21)	www.mashery.com
API Design: Harnessing HATEOAS, Part 1 (2013-06-20)	apigee.com
Data-Driven Aesthetics (2013-06-19)	www.nytimes.com
When Good API Design is a Waste of Time (2013-06-19)	www.apiacademy.co
API Design: Honing in on HATEOAS (2013-06-17)	apigee.com
RESTful APIs: White House Sets The Standard(s) (2013-06-17)	www.programmableweb.com
Designing Hypermedia APIs (2013-06-11)	www.designinghypermediaapis.com
API Design Wiki (2013-06-11)	wiki.apidesign.org
Web API Design Cookbook (2013-06-11)	www.w3.org
API Management ? The New Black? (2013-06-05)	www.mashery.com
APIs vs. The Myth of the Omnichannel Retailer (2013-06-05)	www.mashery.com
Why you should treat your API like a product (2013-06-04)	www.mashery.com
Swagger with WSO2 API Manager (2013-05-31)	blog.cobia.net
API Hierarchy of Needs \| API UX (2013-05-30)	apiux.com
Big Data, IoT, API...Newer technologies protected by older security (2013-05-30)	www.mashery.com
Flying Higher with APIs (2013-05-23)	www.mashery.com
Consistency is Key When Designing APIs (2013-05-22)	blog.strikeiron.com
Omni-channel Explosion: Mashery Signs Strategic Agreement with NetSuite (2013-05-16)	www.mashery.com
Mashery + Intel = The Ultimate Mashup (2013-05-09)	www.mashery.com
Platform Success Strategies: Communicate the Value of Your API (2013-04-30)	www.mashery.com
Stop Designing Fragile Web APIs by Mathieu Fenniak (2013-04-29)	mathieu.fenniak.net
White House API Standards (2013-04-26)	github.com
Three Ways to Think About API Design (2013-04-26)	www.programmableweb.com
REST API Design Rulebook (2013-04-26)	shop.oreilly.com
API Design and Architecture Boot Camp from Layer 7 (2013-04-26)	www.ca.com
API Design and Documentation (2013-04-26)	www.digitalgov.gov
API Design from Apigee (2013-04-26)	apigee.com
Want to Attract Developers to your API? Set Them Free (2013-04-26)	www.mashery.com
Designing APIs for Humans (2013-04-25)	john-sheehan.com
Sports APIs ? A Perfect Fit (2013-04-25)	www.mashery.com
APIs are changing the game for data delivery (2013-04-23)	www.mashery.com
Machine Sensor Data, APIs and Productivity (2013-04-18)	www.mashery.com
Connecting with APIs (2013-04-16)	www.mashery.com
Creative Market Launches Photoshop Extension, Announces Upcoming Release of New API (2013-04-11)	www.programmableweb.com
Designing A RESTful API That Doesnt Suck (2013-03-24)	devo.ps
New API Blueprint Format Basics?The Apiary Blog (2013-02-21)	blog.apiary.io
API Design Development Guidelines (2013-02-16)	dzone.com
API Design from Apigee - 3rd Edition (2013-01-16)	apigee.com
OData and Impact on API Design (video slides) (2012-06-03)	apigee.com
Why Startups Need an API (2012-04-21)	tune.com

If you think there is a link I should have listed here feel free to tweet it at me, or submit as a Github issue. Even though I do this full time, I'm still a one person show, and I miss quite a bit, and depend on my network to help me know what is going on.

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API Discovery Organizations

These are the organizations I come across in my research who are doing interesting things in the API space. They could be companies, institutions, government agencies, or any other type of organizational entity. My goal is to aggregate so I can stay in tune with what they are up to and how it impacts the API space.

Issuu

Issuu is digital publishing and discovery platform that connects people to content for which they have great passion, created by publishers large and small, that share that passion. A digital publishing service that reimagines the print experience, Issuu hosts over 17 million publications and serves over 5.5 billion page-views to over 80 million active readers each month. The site features leading and emerging titles in fashion, culture, arts, hobbies, catalogs and hyperlocal content, all of which are accessible on any device.

Mashape

Mashape provides tools that enable developers to quickly deliver and consume APIs and offers a marketplace for listing APIs. Mashape provides tools for testing your API, code for generation of custom errors, components for user management and standardized API code language libraries in multiple languages. Once your API is ready for prime time Mashape provides a marketplace for listing your API, letting developers to easily discover and begin hacking with your API, in a social API community environment.

AWS Directory Service

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as AWS Microsoft AD, enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud. The Microsoft AD service is built on actual Microsoft Active Directory and does not require you to synchronize or replicate data from your existing Active Directory to the cloud. You can use standard Active Directory administration tools and take advantage of built-in Active Directory features such as Group Policy, trusts, and single sign-on. With Microsoft AD, you can easily join Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances to a domain, and use AWS Enterprise IT applications such as Amazon WorkSpaces with Active Directory users and groups.

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Hypercat

HyperCat is a hypermedia catalogue format designed for exposing information about IoT assets over the web.

Hitch

Hitch is a single platform to help API owners engage with and grow their API community. Our clients show striking similarities in the challenges they face in building integrated and sustainable developer platforms. API providers still struggle to make sure their platform is visible to the right audience. Once found, access is inconsistent and cumbersome and even after onboarding, key engagement tools are seldom available. We have put together a single solution that covers these three key areas.

Google API Discovery Service

You can use the Google API Discovery Service to build client libraries, IDE plugins, and other tools that interact with Google APIs. It provides a lightweight, JSON-based API that exposes machine-readable metadata about Google APIs.

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Public APIs

We know how hard it is to find great APIs. So we built PublicAPIs.com where you can instantly search through thousands of APIs and discover public cloud web services. By searching through public APIs, developers can save time and energy, easily finding the APIs (software components) they need to quickly create and deliver an application on any platform (Mobile, Web, etc).

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Product Hunt

Product Hunt surfaces the best new products, every day. It's a place for product-loving enthusiasts to share and geek out about the latest mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech creations.

ProgrammableWeb

ProgrammableWeb is where you stay in tune with what's new and interesting with mashups, Web 2.0 APIs, and the new Web as Platform. The core of the site is the news blog and the 4 dashboards: Home, Mashups, APIs, and Members. New updates every day, 365 days a year. ProgrammableWeb was the original public, web API directory, providing a growing directory of APIs that every developer has used to discover the APIs they are looking for. ProgrammableWeb was started in 2005 by John Musser, and sold to Alcatel-Lucent in 2010, then again in 2013 to Mulesoft.

API Harmony

IBM API Harmony for Bluemix supports developers in identifying and selecting APIs. It reveals relationships of already selected and searched for APIs, guiding developers in finding useful API combinations.

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APIHound

We launched APIHound because -like you- we depend on finding APIs to build cool stuff. We searched for a good API directory, but all we found were sites like ProgrammableWeb that have been manually collecting APIs for years and PublicAPIs which has a very small API database. There had to be more APIs out there waiting to be found. We decided it was time to bring API Searching into the 21st century. APIHound is continuously examining billions of pages to locate the best API resources. The result is that APIHound has uncovered over 50,000 APIs indexed, categorized, and available for searching. Our API list is more than 4x larger than similar sites that have been around for years. We are working hard to add more sites and categories and tune our detection and scoring strategies. Our mission is to help you uncover APIs that will help you build great things.

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APIs.json

APIs are becoming a crucial part of the Web. Unfortunately however, it remains very difficult to determine the location of these APIs on servers around the Web. The only way to discover APIs and their properties is via human driven search through public search engines or in hand curated API Directory listings. While these methods work, neither can scale to the potentially hundreds of thousands and millions of APIs which will be published over the next few years.

Kapeli

Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 150+ APIs (for a full list, see below). You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included.

RapidAPI

RapidAPI is the world’s largest API marketplace. RapidAPI lets you visualize all your apps’ APIs, and gives you real-time metrics on their stability. There are millions of software programs out there and they’re reshaping every aspect of our lives. We believe that they can get exponentially better by sharing data and functionality with each other. APIs are the language that software uses to communicate and connect. That’s why we love APIs.

W3C Web API Discovery Group

A group to develop a mechanism for the automatic discovery of WebAPIs, by extending the schema.org vocabulary. Increasingly, large online platforms and services provide one or more Web APIs for third-party developers. Moreover, many companies build WebAPIs as their primary product (Email API, SMS API, etc.). This has resulted in an explosion of the number of WebAPIs in recent years. Developers spend a significant amount of time searching for suitable WebAPIs to meet their needs. Our intention is to work closely with Schema.org to define a WebAPI-specific extension and promote usage of this extension among API owners. In the long run, our aim is to contribute this extension into the core Schema.org vocabulary. To achieve these goals we are seeking feedback and collaboration from API owners, DX specialists, API description language experts and maintainers of various API catalogs.

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apis.io

APIs.io os an experimental API Search service to help discover APIs on the web. The service uses the APIs.json proposed discovery format. To find APIs type your request in the search box. To get listed follow the instructions in the FAQ. The Search engine is also open source so you can run your own copy.

ContentGems

ContentGems helps marketers find, curate, and share engaging content so they can build their company's thought leadership and increase qualified website traffic. ContentGems was founded in 2011 by Jeff Ward, Joachim Hund, and Michael J. Fern, who were seeking to carry out content marketing for their own software development and consulting businesses.

Lateral

Lateral's mission is to help people discover the information they need when they need it. By enabling developers to integrate machine learning into their services, we hope to accelerate discovery, understanding and ultimately collaboration across a wide range of disciplines. We identify solutions that benefit from machine learning and build modular APIs that are simple to integrate. Our first API is the Hybrid Recommender that merges behavioural data and machine intelligence. It solves a problem faced by many of how to provide relevant content recommendations to users and can work without collaborative data

AWS Service Catalog

AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS Service Catalog allows you to centrally manage commonly deployed IT services, and helps you achieve consistent governance and meet your compliance requirements, while enabling users to quickly deploy only the approved IT services they need.

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AWS EC2 Container Registry Service

Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR) is a fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. Amazon ECR is integrated with Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS), simplifying your development to production workflow. Amazon ECR eliminates the need to operate your own container repositories or worry about scaling the underlying infrastructure. Amazon ECR hosts your images in a highly available and scalable architecture, allowing you to reliably deploy containers for your applications. Integration with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides resource-level control of each repository. With Amazon ECR, there are no upfront fees or commitments. You pay only for the amount of data you store in your repositories and data transferred to the Internet.

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If you think there is an organization I should have listed here feel free to tweet it at me, or submit as a Github issue. Even though I do this full time, I'm still a one person show, and I miss quite a bit, and depend on my network to help me know what is going on.

API Discovery Tooling

As I study each API, and API related service, I'm always looking for open source tooling that has been developed around each area of the API life cycle. This is an aggregate of tooling I've come across and aggregated as part of my API testing research.

Discovery

discovery-srv

A discovery service for microservices

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APIs.json

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Apigee API Console

Apigee API Consoles make it easier for developers to learn and use an API. You can think of a Console as a GUI for an API or cURL on steroids. Featuring an easy-to-use interface, Apigee API Consoles provide a GUI for exploring an API's resources and executing its methods.

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celery-api

Celery API discovery module

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Armada

Complete solution for development, deployment, configuration and discovery of microservices.

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Consul

Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration.

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apiman-api-catalog

Contains static service catalog information useful for implementing a simple service catalog in comm

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Home Documents for HTTP APIs

JSON Home Document is an HTTP API definition formated that follows the RFC4627 specification, and has the media type application/json-home.

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api-models

Repository for API models in Swagger 2.0 format

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google-discovery-to-swagger

Script for converting Google Discovery format into Swagger 2.0

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Hyperbahn

Service discovery and routing for large scale microservice operations

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Google API Explorer

The Google APIs Explorer allows developers to navigate Google API services, browse available methods, make API requests, and see responses. The Explorer is written in GWT and relies heavily on the Discovery API. By selecting an API you want to explore, you can see all the available methods and parameters along with inline documentation. Just fill out the parameters for the method you want to try and click “Execute”. The Explorer composes the request, executes it, and displays the response in real time.

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openapi-directory

Wikipedia for Web APIs. Directory of REST API specs in OpenAPI(fka Swagger) 2.0 format.

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If there is a tool that you think should be listed here, let me know by submitting a Github issue or Tweeting a link at me. I'm always looking for new types of tools, and get better at organizing them here and making sense.

API Discovery Building Blocks

As I study the API space, and profile the companies, services, and tooling I come across I'm always looking for the common building blocks in use across API operations. These are derived the features, and valuable elements of API operations, and the companies who are servicing this particular area of the API space.

API Definition Formats
- APIs.json - Use the APIs.json JSON specification for describing collections of APIs, allowing them to be indexed for inclusion in public and private search engines.
API Directories
- ProgrammableWeb - The original API directory created by John Musser in 2005, to provide a single, searchable directory of common public APIs.
- Mashape - An API directory born out of the API management platform Mashape, providing a directory of Mashape clients APIs.
API Search Engines
- APIs.io - APIs.io is an open source search, driven using the APIs.json discovery format, allowing API providers to manage the discovery index of their own APIs, while allowing consumers to search, discover, and build collections of APIs they use.
Business Directories
- Crunchbase - A directory of companies that is curated by Techcrunch, and allows an approach to listing companies who have APIs.
- AngelList - Like Crunchbase, AngelList is a directory of companies, but also provides a way to showcase companies who have APIs.
How Are APIs Found?
- API Directory - API directories allow for the submissions and curation of APIs, then enable users to search and browse by keywords and tags, in many areas.
- API Hub - API directories usually span many categories, where hubs often focus on specific area like telco, or healthcare, providing a single hub for discovering APIs.
- IDE Extension - integrated development environment (IDE) extensions or add-ons that allow developers to quickly discovery and understand API endpoints.
- API Explorer - Sometimes also called consoles are designed to provide an interactive interface for developers to discover, explore, make calls and see responses in an interactive way.
- API Questions - Providing a list of questions about API operations, using the api-questions-format, allowing common aspects to be indexed and discoverable via API search.

These building blocks are constantly being added to and reorganized. If there is something you think should be here feel free to let me know. Remember that this represents my living research, and will evolve, expand and actually seed new research areas as I find the time to pay attention to API testing.

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About This Research

As I keep an eye on the space I curate news, bookmark organizations, watch interesting tools, and work to understand what deployment solutions are being applied by leading API providers. I take everything I find and publish here as part of my research.

I then take this research, and what I've learned and publish stories on the blog, and more long form content like my industry guides, and white papers for customers. This is one way that I generate revenue to keep it all going.

If you'd like to see me focus more on API discovery I could use more partners investing in this area, helping me find the time to study more about what is going on. Feel free to contact me directly if you want to talk more about API discovery.

Thanks for your support!