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APIs.io – The API search engine
- SlashmanX 12y agoSeems to be perpetually stuck on "loading...". Hug of death?
- kremlin 12y agome too
- scott_w 12y agoThere's a couple of syntax errors, but it does eventually load. I think the whole screen is dependent on a web request completing. Tip: try to get as much of it rendered as possible while you're waiting. Most JavaScript frameworks have the ability to manage sub-views of some sort, so you can get most of that screen in place. If you're waiting on the items to load, try greying out the search box or something?
- picsoung 12y agoStill not loading for you?
- corobo 12y agoI have no idea if there's a backend hug of death but the search function seems to do nothing at all when I try to search. Click search.. no loading icon, no loading text, nada
- numbers 12y agoSite is stuck at `loading...`
- caniscrator 12y agoworked in chrome.
- picsoung 12y agoOP here, i'm spawning more machines, hang in there
- ssharp 12y agoCan I get the list of APIs via an API?
- picsoung 12y agoYou can access it using our API http://apis.io/apiDoc http://apis.io/apiDoc
- desdiv 12y agoSearching "apis.io" on your site returns the right result, but clicking on that result results in a 404 :)
- timdorr 12y agohttp://apis.io/api/apis Yes, that is the actual URL... Can we get a .api TLD so it can be http://apis.api/api/apis http://apis.api/api/apis? And maybe an HTTP protocol extension so it can be api://apis.api/api/apis?
- njyx 12y agoLol
- avalaunch 12y agoThis is really cool. The one feature request I have is that descriptions be added. The tags alone aren't enough to determine what an api is offering.
- killerbat00 12y agoIt might be nice from a usability perspective to only show the error message once. As it stands now, it's possible to continually search for a non-existing API and fill the screen with red errors [1]. (Not that this is a particularly compelling or realistic workflow or even worth fixing. They disappear within a few seconds anyway, which is nice.) [1] http://imgur.com/dqZY8zW http://imgur.com/dqZY8zW
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- picsoung 12y agoOP here - If you have trouble loading the homepage to search for APIs (due to lot of traffic) You can check static pages: http://apis.io/faq http://apis.io/faq http://apis.io/lint http://apis.io/lint http://apis.io/builder http://apis.io/builder http://apis.io/apiDoc http://apis.io/apiDoc http://apis.io/about http://apis.io/about
- coldcode 12y agoRight now it is returning loops of the same apis over and over, randomly.
- _lce0 12y agoSweet! Would be really awesome if the site could show api's documentation in a unified standard format Kudos for this!
- apievangelist 12y agoComing up next. :-)
- sinzone 12y agoGood revamp of the old APIsIO. I suggest to check also PublicAPIs (http://publicapis.com http://publicapis.com) with 5,000 APIs listed and maintained by the community.
- biomimic 12y agoWe know what prevents this from happening to public APIs: Music Labels Reach A New Low, Sue Developer For Using Seeqpod API http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/25/music-labels-reach-a-new-low-sue-developer-for-using-seeqpod-api/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/25/music-labels-reach-a-new-lo...
- njyx 12y agoPublic APIs is also a directory - you could now use the apis.json data to keep that directory info from getting stale. That's the point of the http://www.apisjson.org http://www.apisjson.org + search combination.
- frankdenbow 12y agoVery cool. Would be great if you teamed up with Readme.io to make sure all of their customers are loaded into the search engine (our docs are with Readme)
- apievangelist 12y agoI will coordinate with them Frank. I've been working with them for stories. Good suggestion.
- hdivider 12y agoOne thing to add, perhaps: include API wrappers, client libraries etc. Stuff that makes it easier to use the actual underlying API. Eg the YouTube Data API is nice, but you can save a ton of time if you use one of the client libraries: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/libraries https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/libraries
- _mikz 12y agoWould be nice to have some general collection of libraries in various languages. Hope we will there one day, but for now we have API Pages, that include middleware (like mini apps) to extend/modify one/various api. https://www.apitools.com/apis/burning-man https://www.apitools.com/apis/burning-man
- kingmorgan 12y agothere is one other site that i have been using since FOREVER that does this with client side code snippets and sdks EDIT: found it its http://www.mashape.com http://www.mashape.com
- hdivider 12y agoAwesome. Thanks for digging that up!
- caniscrator 12y agoGreat. Why is it taking so much time to load ?
- caniscrator 12y agoWorked in chrome.
- maaaats 12y agoThe icons doesn't work in Firefox on W8, works in Chrome, though. Just shows squares with numbers inside.
- pknerd 12y agoHow is it different than Programmable Web? (http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory)
- njyx 12y agoIt's search v's directory. The idea is you can post meta-data on an API on your own domain using a format http://www.apisjson.org/ http://www.apisjson.org/ that can then be crawled. Right now you still submit links, but it'll start crawling. So then anyone can write a search engine (the code for apis.io is open source). With a directory like programmableweb it's useful but you need to put your data into the repository - and then remember to update it.
- apievangelist 12y agoWith APIs.io you can launch your own ProgrammableWeb. ;-)
- bradhe 12y agoWhat's the use case for searching for "an API" exactly? Usually, there's something very specific you want to do with an API...
- wallawe 12y agoI think this is a legitimate question. Personally, it would be cool to scan lists of API's for idea inspiration but this doesn't really provide that functionality. Now what would be cool here, is if the APIs returned here had docs presented on the website with a consistent UX/UI. But then you would need an API for an API :)
- njyx 12y agoThe apis.json format this looks for contains fields for formats like http://www.swagger.io/ http://www.swagger.io/ which it could then pull in (or someone else could) to render the docs in line.
- kingmorgan 12y agoMight be interesting to check this out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637324
- ponyous 12y agoUsually but not always. For example, I was just searching for a weather API and apis.io was really helpful.
- jgreen10 12y agoGetting ideas for what's out there.
- njyx 12y agoMain thing that's useful is that if it can pull in all the elements (def portal, specs, etc.) you get deeplinks to everything. Google also doesn't help finding some APIs easily since it just treats it as content or they aren't linked. In the long run hopefully a lot of the fields in the apis.json files this pulls on will be machine readable (e.g. meta-data for things like major T&C provisions), pointers to libraries etc. so you could filter on that.
- digguser 12y agoa piss.io
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- daviddoran 12y agoSearching for "voice calling" changes the input to "voice\ calling". And then there are no results :(
- picsoung 12y agoyou could try http://apis.io/?search=call http://apis.io/?search=call or http://apis.io/?search=voice http://apis.io/?search=voice there are also some listed http://apis.io/?search=tag:voice http://apis.io/?search=tag:voice
- picsoung 12y agoOP here - everything should be back to normal in terms of loading time. Sorry for the inconvenience
- orliesaurus 12y agothat elasticity!
- pgroves 12y agoIf you just want the list of names of the apis: curl "http://apis.io/api/apis?limit=1000" -s |python -m json.tool |grep "\"name\"\:"
- amadeusw 12y agoThis reminds me of Bret Victor's "Future of programming" at http://vimeo.com/71278954 http://vimeo.com/71278954 particularly at 13:50 about APIs - envisioning how computers could themselves discover available services at other computers. Maybe this API index is just the first step towards enabling computer programs to independently interact with each other.
- jarmitage 12y agoSame. Alan Kay talked about this once, I have a paraphrase to hand: "This current effort of doing term-based ontologies is a disaster. It requires too much agreement [...] I can't find anyone working on this notion of general negotiation between anything that can negotiate [...] Negotiating meaning is the problem of our time."
- meursault334 12y agoDo you know the source of this? I tried and failed to locate it. I would be really interested to watch this talk.
- jarmitage 12y agoI must apologise by saying I can't! However, I am almost certain it came from a link on this site: http://smalltalk.org.br/movies/ http://smalltalk.org.br/movies/ If you can't find it, you will at least find some other amazing material
- smizell 12y agoI think a key here is hypermedia. APIs can only be machine-discoverable if there are hypermedia links pointing to them (which is how this helps). If there are no links, then some human must hardcode it. This also is a reason for including hypermedia in your API, because really, being machine-discoverable is not just something that the API itself benefits from... each resource and state can benefit from included hypermedia as well.
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- canterburry 12y agoAny chance you will accept Swagger API docs? I have my APIs already documented in Swagger.
- apievangelist 12y agoUsing the APIs.json format you can reference any machine readable format like Swagger. We are currently working on generating Swagger for each of the APIs currently listed. By February there will be Swagger for most of them listed.
- apievangelist 12y agoUsing the APIs.json format you can reference any machine readable format like Swagger. We are currently working on generating Swagger for each of the APIs currently listed. By February there will be Swagger for most of them listed.
- nvk 12y agoI'm getting 400 error when trying to add my API https://coinkite.com/static/api/apis.json https://coinkite.com/static/api/apis.json
- picsoung 12y agoHi, You could use http://apis.io/lint http://apis.io/lint to validate your apis.json file. Testing your file I found that properties are not correct "properties": [ { "type": "X-Documentation", "url": "https://docs.coinkite.com" https://docs.coinkite.com" } ], should work also "photo" is not a valid parameter. And "vCard" is expecting a URL and can't be empty. hope it helps
- emp 12y agoIs there a API search engine where one can enter sample inputs and outputs, and get a list of methods that return the outputs for the given inputs? Smalltalk has a search function like this - very handy instead of trying to guess method names.
- kingmorgan 12y agoDon't wanna highjack the thread but that's exactly what i was mentioning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637324
- notastartup 12y agogave up trying to add an api.
- eo3x0 12y agoWe almost need the inverse: APIs that are showing signs of death ala Netflix. It's usually the case that you have an idea for something and an API is pretty easy to find. Getting your integration pulled out under your feet is really what sucks.
- apievangelist 12y agoI'm working on APIs.json collections of deprecated APIs, as well as working on APIs.json references to building blocks like pricing, and TOS...then allow for inverse searching for APIs that do not have pricing, or have TOS that are not friendly. The next project after API Commons is to take TOS Didn't Read work and incorporate as part of APIs.json, so that APIs.io will have this type of data to search by.
- thejosh 12y agoThat's what happens when you build upon the shores of others.
- billmalarky 12y agoStill, it's a risk often worth taking. If you look at many of the hypergrowth projects, a lot of them rely on a current market adopting their product as a supplement to a platform.
- matthuggins 12y agoAppears to be down or broken.
- tellor 12y agoNice! Very interesting facility. Original with solution to add API in JSON-format and so on.
- asyncwords 12y agoI'm getting the following error [1] every time I try to open the page with IE11 on Windows 8.1. It prevents bootstrap.js from loading, which then prevents everything else from working and just shows a blank white page. Might explain why some people are having problems loading the site, though it works fine in Firefox for me. [1]: https://i.imgur.com/HWdHT33.png https://i.imgur.com/HWdHT33.png
- picsoung 12y agoInteresting error... thanks for reporting it. Unfortunately I have no idea what's going on. but we I will investigate this issue.
- asyncwords 12y agoIf it helps, the debugger points to an invalid ʹ character in 01135560588655f631606d051ab4cd4df545eead.js. I circled the character in blue [1]. Beyond that I haven't the foggiest idea. [1]: http://i.imgur.com/WgiitFj.png http://i.imgur.com/WgiitFj.png
- picsoung 12y agoahah! thanks :)