APIs.guru Joins Growing List of API Indexes by Benjamin Young.
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APIs.guru is the latest entry into the API definition indexing, curation, and discovery space.
The open source (MIT-licensed) community curated index currently includes 236 API descriptions which cover 6,271 endpoints. APIs.guru is focused on becoming the "Wikipedia for REST APIs."
APIs.guru is entering an increasingly crowded market with other API indexing sites including The API Stack, API Commons, APIs.io, AnyAPI, and older indexes such as ProgrammableWeb's API Directory. These API indexes share a common goal says APIEvangelist.com blogger Kin Lane:
Developers around the world are using these definitions in their work, and modern API tooling and service providers are using them to define the value they bring to the table. To help the API sector reach the next level, we need you to step up and share the API definitions you have with API Stack, APIs.io, or APIs.guru, and if you have the time and skills, we could use your help crafting other new API definitions for popular services available today.
The APIs.guru content is curated primarily by its creator, Ivan Goncharov. According to a DataFire Blog entry, the initial content was populated "using a combination of automated scraping and human curation to crawl the web for machine-readable API definitions."
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The empirical evidence from Spain indicates that the more places that link to you, the more traffic you enjoy. Even for news sites.
From that perspective, a multitude of over-lapping, duplicative API indexes is a good thing.
From my perspective, that is a one-stop shop for APIs, it’s a nightmare.
Which one you see depend on your use case.
Enjoy!