APIs.io Blog
Stories about API profiling, discovery, and the future of spec-driven integration across the APIs.io network.
August 01, 2026
The Strava Activities API: A Complete Consumer Surface
The Strava Activities API creates, reads, updates, and deletes workout activities — the recorded runs, rides, and swims that are the core object of the platform. Base URL https://www.strava.com/api/v3.
Its catalog en...
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August 01, 2026
Consumer Goods on APIs.io
The Consumer Goods vertical at apis.io/industries/consumer-goods/ tracks 83 providers and 63 APIs across five sub-sectors — food and beverage, athletic apparel and footwear, adhesives and surface technologies, toys an...
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August 01, 2026
OAuth Scopes Across the Catalog: 14,172 Permissions Made Explicit
The scopes collection at apis.io/scopes/ carries 1,747 provider scope documents describing 14,172 individual OAuth scopes — every named permission a provider will grant, enumerated rather than described.
Each entry c...
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August 01, 2026
Profiling Palo Alto Networks: 168 APIs of Security Surface
Palo Alto Networks indexes at apis.io/providers/palo-alto-networks/ with 168 APIs and 159 API specifications, a Kin Score of 75.3 (exemplar), and an Agent Readiness score of 65.4 in the agent-native band.
It is the h...
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August 01, 2026
Browsing the Catalog by Country
The network now indexes 27 countries at apis.io/countries/, sitting alongside the 17 broader regions. Regions answer “who serves Latin America”; countries answer “who is actually in Brazil.”
The distribution
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July 31, 2026
The Mistral Agents API: Twenty-Seven Properties on One Surface
The Mistral AI Agents API handles agent completion operations at https://api.mistral.ai/v1. Its catalog entry carries twenty-seven properties — the widest property spread of any API in this week’s sweep — including Op...
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July 31, 2026
Retail on APIs.io
The Retail vertical at apis.io/industries/retail/ tracks 90 providers and 116 APIs across eight sub-sectors — mass merchants and supercenters, convenience stores, wholesale and warehouse clubs, department stores, spec...
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July 31, 2026
Profiling Shopify: 213 APIs of Commerce Surface
Shopify indexes at apis.io/providers/shopify/ with 213 APIs and 197 API specifications, a Kin Score of 68.7 (strong), and an Agent Readiness score of 53.8 in the agent-ready band.
It is the largest commerce surface o...
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July 31, 2026
Insight Partners: Portfolio API Footprint
Insight Partners — the New York software investor founded in 1995 — has 797 portfolio companies on the network, and every single one of them is matched: 797 of 797. Its profile sits at apis.io/vcs/insight-partners/.
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July 31, 2026
The Authentication Tag Across the Catalog
The Authentication tag at apis.io/tags/authentication/ is carried by 1,338 providers and 1,207 APIs — one of the widest tags on the network. Its aggregate Kin Score is 35.8, which places the tag itself in the emerging...
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July 30, 2026
The Xero Accounting API: 140 Operations Behind One Surface
The Xero Accounting API carries 140 operations on a single base URL — https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0. Its catalog entry lists fourteen properties, ten of which are Documentation, alongside OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL...
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July 30, 2026
Energy on APIs.io
The Energy vertical at apis.io/industries/energy/ tracks 82 providers across nine sub-sectors — refining and petrochemicals, petroleum products and distribution, utilities infrastructure, oil and gas exploration and p...
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July 30, 2026
Building Fraud Detection From the Catalog
Fraud Detection & Prevention at apis.io/use-cases/fraud-detection/ resolves 29 providers and 723 APIs — catching fraudulent signups, payments, and account activity through risk scoring, device and behavioral signa...
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July 30, 2026
API Coverage Across Latin America
Latin America indexes 383 providers and 1,109 APIs at apis.io/regions/latin-america/ — the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Americas plus the Caribbean. The concentration is unmistakable: fintech, payments, and open ba...
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July 30, 2026
Profiling FactSet: 460 APIs of Market Data
FactSet publishes 460 APIs with 447 API specifications — the deepest single-provider surface in financial data on the network. Its entry sits at apis.io/providers/factset/ with a Kin Score of 73.5 (exemplar) and an Ag...
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July 29, 2026
The Render Audit Logs API: Sixteen Artifact Types Behind One Endpoint
The Render Audit Logs API does one thing: it retrieves audit logs for workspace activity. Base URL https://api.render.com/v1. On the face of it, this is a small API — the kind most catalogs would file and forget.
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July 29, 2026
Profiling Adyen: 202 APIs and the Payments Control Plane
Adyen sits at apis.io/providers/adyen/ with 202 APIs and 202 API specifications — a one-to-one ratio that is rarer than it sounds. Most payment providers in the catalog ship a documentation site and a handful of specs...
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July 29, 2026
Financial Services on APIs.io
The Financial Services vertical at apis.io/industries/financial-services/ tracks 125 providers and 386 APIs across seven sub-sectors: Banking, Consumer Lending, Wealth Management, Risk Management, Brokerage & Weal...
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July 29, 2026
AsyncAPI Across the Catalog: 4,753 Channels, 661 Providers
The catalog now carries 1,768 AsyncAPI definitions. The events rollup resolves them into 4,753 channels across 661 providers, browsable at apis.io/channels/.
Set that against the OpenAPI side of the house and the asy...
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July 29, 2026
The Machine Learning Area on APIs.io
Machine Learning is the largest area on the network: 1,037 providers, indexed at machine-learning.apievangelist.com. It spans the full ML lifecycle — training platforms, model serving, inference endpoints, MLOps tooli...
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July 28, 2026
Profiling Zoom: 41 APIs and the Communications Platform
Zoom is a communications platform that lets users connect with video, audio, phone, and chat. Its API gives programmatic access to Zoom’s core features including meetings, webinars, recordings, and users. On the APIs....
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July 28, 2026
Healthcare on APIs.io
Healthcare and life sciences is one of the deepest verticals on the network. The Healthcare & Life Sciences industry tracks 376 providers publishing 1,296 APIs, spanning EHR integration, payor systems, telehealth,...
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July 28, 2026
Accel's Portfolio API Footprint
Accel is one of the world’s leading venture firms, founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz and headquartered in Palo Alto. Its “prepared mind” philosophy has backed category-defining companies including Fac...
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July 28, 2026
A Tour of the 77 Areas on APIs.io
Search is great when you know what you are looking for. The Areas index is for when you know the shape of what you need but not the name. APIs.io organizes the catalog into 77 topical Areas drawn from the API Evangeli...
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July 28, 2026
Inside Square's Payments API
The Square Payments API is one of 37 APIs that Square publishes on the APIs.io network, and it is the one that actually moves money. It lets applications take and manage payments by charging the payment methods suppor...
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July 27, 2026
The Rate Limiting Tag Across the Catalog
Rate limiting is a cross-cutting concern, not a product. It shows up wherever traffic has to be shaped, and in an agentic world that is everywhere. When an autonomous client can fire requests as fast as the network al...
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July 27, 2026
Inside the Google Maps Routes API
The Routes API is one of the APIs that Google Maps Platform publishes on the APIs.io network. Its job is narrow and load-bearing: compute routes and route matrices with real-time traffic. It is tagged Directions, Rout...
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July 27, 2026
Government on APIs.io
The Government & Public Sector industry on APIs.io covers federal agencies, state and local government, open-data portals, regulatory bodies, courts, public safety, and civic-tech platforms that connect citizens t...
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July 27, 2026
Building Content Moderation from the Catalog
The job is old and unglamorous: review user-generated text, images, and video against policy, then run the automated classification, human review queues, and the appeals and audit trail behind enforcement. The Content...
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July 27, 2026
Profiling SendGrid: 44 APIs Behind the Email Delivery Platform
SendGrid, now Twilio SendGrid, is a cloud-based email delivery platform that provides reliable transactional and marketing email services. On the APIs.io network its provider profile carries 44 APIs, which is a lot of...
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July 26, 2026
The Webhooks Area on APIs.io
Webhooks are the dominant HTTP pattern for asynchronous, event-driven integration, and the Webhooks area on APIs.io indexes the providers that deliver, ingest, transform, retry, and inspect them. The area spans a prov...
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July 26, 2026
Manufacturing & Industrial on APIs.io
Manufacturing is not a domain people expect to be API-rich, which is exactly why the catalog matters. APIs.io tracks 131 providers and 524 APIs under Manufacturing & Industrial, and the surface runs the full stack...
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July 26, 2026
Inside Salesforce's Agentforce Agent API
The Salesforce Agentforce Agent API is a REST API that lets developers communicate with AI agents directly — starting sessions, sending messages, receiving responses, and ending sessions. It is one of 43 APIs Salesfor...
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July 26, 2026
API Coverage Across Southeast Asia
The Southeast Asia region on APIs.io covers the ASEAN bloc — Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, and others. The catalog indexes 60 providers and 207 APIs from the region, and the shape...
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July 26, 2026
Profiling VTEX: 44 APIs Behind an Enterprise Commerce Platform
VTEX is a global enterprise digital commerce platform, founded in Brazil, serving thousands of merchants across 38 countries. On the APIs.io network VTEX publishes an api_count of 44 OpenAPI-described APIs — one of th...
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July 25, 2026
Profiling GitLab: 41 APIs and the DevSecOps Surface
GitLab is not a source-control company that grew an API. It is a DevOps platform whose API is the platform. The provider profile on APIs.io indexes 41 APIs, and reading them in one place makes the design philosophy ob...
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July 25, 2026
Inside Twilio's Verify API
The Twilio Verify API is Twilio’s answer to a question every product eventually asks: is this user who they claim to be? It lets developers add phone verification to an application, sending one-time codes over SMS or ...
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July 25, 2026
How APIs.io Scores Agent Readiness
A human can paper over a bad API. Missing an example? Guess from the field name. No idempotency guarantee? Retry and eyeball the result. Auth documented in prose? Read it and move on. An agent cannot do any of that. I...
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July 25, 2026
The CRM and Sales API Landscape on APIs.io
CRM is where every go-to-market system meets, and the catalog reflects it. The CRM & Sales industry on APIs.io now tracks 195 providers across 1,099 APIs. That is not a shortlist of the usual suspects. It is the w...
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July 25, 2026
Who Publishes Arazzo Workflows Across the Catalog
A single API call is rarely the job. The real work is a sequence: authorize an upload, attach the file, then confirm the list. Kick off a migration, then poll until it finishes. Create a resource, then read it back to...
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July 24, 2026
Transportation & Logistics on APIs.io
The movement-of-goods-and-people stack is one of the deepest categories on the APIs.io network. The Transportation & Logistics industry indexes 399 providers publishing 1,468 APIs — freight forwarding, ocean and a...
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July 24, 2026
Profiling DHL: 48 APIs and the Logistics Control Plane
DHL is a global logistics company operating in over 220 countries and territories, and its developer surface on the APIs.io network reflects that scale. The provider carries an api_count of 48, spread across the compa...
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July 24, 2026
Inside Stripe's Issuing API
The Stripe Issuing API is one of 57 APIs that Stripe publishes on the APIs.io network, and it does one specific, high-stakes thing: it lets businesses instantly create, manage, and distribute payment cards. Where most...
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July 24, 2026
The a16z Portfolio's API Footprint
Andreessen Horowitz — a16z — is one of the most influential venture firms in the world, founded in July 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, headquartered in Menlo Park, and managing over $90B-$100B+ in assets ac...
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July 24, 2026
The GraphQL Tag Across the Catalog
The GraphQL tag is one of the network’s genuine cross-cuts. It sits at composite 35.2 in the emerging band, but that number understates its reach: the tag links 247 providers and 337 APIs, drawn from provider tags (16...
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July 23, 2026
Profiling Databricks: 57 APIs on the Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks publishes 57 APIs on the APIs.io network, described in the catalog as a “collection of Databricks REST APIs for managing workspaces, clusters, jobs, and data operations.” That is not a single product with a...
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July 23, 2026
Inside Asana's Audit Log API
The Asana Audit Log API is one of 45 APIs that Asana publishes on the APIs.io network, and it is the one you reach for when the question is not “what can users do” but “what did they actually do.” Per the catalog, it ...
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July 23, 2026
Building ETL Pipelines From the Catalog
The job is old and never finished: move data from operational sources into analytical stores, transform it along the way, and keep the whole thing scheduled, retried, and observable. The ETL and Data Pipelines use cas...
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July 23, 2026
API Coverage Across the DACH Region
The DACH region page on APIs.io covers German-speaking Europe — Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein — and tracks 68 providers and 174 APIs. The catalog description frames the region well: DACH concentrate...
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July 23, 2026
Agent Skills Grew Up in Public: One Month of Provider Signal
I track where the API economy is moving by reading what the providers themselves publish, and every month I pull a thread out of that firehose. Last month it was Model Context Protocol. This month I pulled the Agent S...
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July 23, 2026
Insurance on APIs.io
The insurance industry page on APIs.io tracks 133 providers and 419 APIs across the full value chain — quoting, underwriting, policy issuance, claims, reinsurance, and the InsurTech challengers delivering coverage thr...
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July 22, 2026
Who Publishes MCP Servers Across the Catalog
An MCP server is the adapter that lets an AI agent actually use an API — it exposes a provider’s operations as tools an agent can discover and call over the Model Context Protocol, instead of forcing the agent to reve...
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July 22, 2026
The MCP Surface: One Month of Provider Signal
I track where the API economy is moving by reading what the providers themselves publish, and every month I pull the Model Context Protocol thread out of that firehose. Over the last 30 days — June 22 to July 22, 2026...
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July 22, 2026
Telecommunications on APIs.io
Telecommunications is one of the deepest industries on the APIs.io network: 228 providers exposing 1,292 APIs. It spans carrier network APIs, CPaaS platforms for SMS, voice, and video, unified communications, notifica...
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July 22, 2026
Profiling ServiceNow: 57 APIs and the Enterprise Workflow Platform
ServiceNow provides cloud-based platform services that automate enterprise IT operations. On the APIs.io network it publishes a surface of 57 APIs — one of the deepest single-provider footprints in the catalog, and a ...
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July 22, 2026
Inside Cloudflare's AI Gateway API
The Cloudflare AI Gateway API gives you visibility and control over AI applications — analytics, logging, caching, rate limiting, request retries, model fallback, guardrails, and evaluations — sitting between your app...
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July 22, 2026
The Observability Area on APIs.io
Observability is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a curated index of services and tooling for API monitoring, logging, tracing, metrics, and analytics. It is a big corner of the landscape: 196 ...
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July 17, 2026
We Ran OWASP API Security Checks on Our Own API
APIs.io spends all day looking at other people’s APIs — indexing them, and rating how well they describe themselves with a Spectral-powered scoring system. It is a fair question to ask right back at us: how does the A...
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July 14, 2026
What API Sprawl Looks Like From the Index
Most of the writing about API sprawl is written from the inside — a team staring at its own environment, trying to figure out how many APIs it actually runs, and coming up short. Surveys keep finding that the majority...
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July 13, 2026
Profiling Duffel — Nine APIs That Model the Booking Flow
Duffel carries 9 APIs, and what makes the surface worth studying is that the APIs aren’t organized by system — they’re organized by the flow a traveler actually moves through. It’s a modern, clean-sheet contract laid ...
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July 13, 2026
Travel and Hospitality on APIs.io: Flights, Stays, and Tables
Travel and hospitality is a mid-sized vertical in the catalog — 84 providers, 430 APIs — and one of the most API-dependent industries there is, because nothing in travel happens without one system talking to another. ...
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July 12, 2026
Profiling Herald — One API Across Many Insurance Carriers
Herald is a small surface — 7 APIs — but it’s one of the more structurally interesting entries in the insurance vertical, because the whole point of the design is to make many carriers look like one. It’s the aggregat...
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July 12, 2026
Insurance on APIs.io: Carriers, Aggregators, and InsurTech
Insurance is a small vertical in the catalog — 84 providers, 313 APIs — and one of the least API-mature relative to its size as an industry. That gap is the story: insurance moves enormous amounts of money on top of s...
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July 11, 2026
Legal on APIs.io: Agreements, Discovery, and Research
Legal is one of the smaller verticals in the catalog — 53 providers, 307 APIs — and one of the least API-mature, which is exactly what makes it interesting to watch. This is a profession built on documents and precede...
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July 11, 2026
Profiling Docusign — The Agreement Cloud as Six APIs
Docusign is famous for one thing — electronic signatures — but the catalog surfaces six distinct APIs that show how a single feature grew into an agreement platform. Walking it is a good lesson in how a category-defin...
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July 10, 2026
Profiling Chainstack — 26 APIs of Multi-Chain Node Infrastructure
Chainstack carries 26 APIs, and the count tells you exactly what the company does: it runs blockchain nodes as managed infrastructure, and nearly every API is a different chain’s node interface. It’s one of the cleane...
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July 10, 2026
Blockchain and Web3 on APIs.io: Infrastructure, Exchanges, and Chains
Blockchain and Web3 is a deep vertical in the catalog — 236 providers, 1,097 APIs — and its structure is unusually clean, because the domain naturally splits into a few well-defined layers: the infrastructure that run...
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July 09, 2026
Profiling Soracom — 18 APIs and a Connectivity Control Plane
Soracom carries 18 APIs, and it’s one of the cleanest examples in the catalog of a company that turned a physical thing — a cellular SIM — into a fully programmable cloud platform. The surface is what you get when con...
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July 09, 2026
IoT and Robotics on APIs.io: The Physical World Gets a Control Plane
IoT and robotics is a substantial vertical in the catalog — 177 providers, 812 APIs — and it’s where the physical world grows a programmable control plane. The interesting thing about walking it is how many of the big...
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July 08, 2026
Profiling Pluralsight — 30 APIs Across Learning and Engineering Metrics
Pluralsight carries 30 APIs in the catalog, and the interesting thing about the surface is that it’s really two products stitched together: the skills-and-learning platform everyone knows, and Flow, an engineering-int...
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July 08, 2026
Education on APIs.io: Platforms, Campuses, and Skills
Education is one of the largest verticals in the catalog — 312 providers, 959 APIs — but it’s also one of the most mixed, because “education” here spans commercial learning platforms, open-source LMS projects, and hun...
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July 07, 2026
Profiling Autodesk — 33 APIs Behind the Design Platform
Autodesk carries 33 APIs in the catalog, and unlike a fragmented product, they’re one coherent platform: Autodesk Platform Services (APS), the cloud layer under AutoCAD, Revit, Fusion, and the construction cloud. Walk...
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July 07, 2026
Construction and Real Estate on APIs.io: From Blueprint to Portfolio
Construction and real estate is a mid-sized but deep vertical in the catalog — 103 providers, 399 APIs — and it’s one where the physical asset (a building, a jobsite, a property) is slowly acquiring a programmable twi...
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July 04, 2026
Profiling Atlassian — 138 APIs Across Three Products
Atlassian carries one of the largest surfaces in the catalog — 138 distinct APIs — and unlike most high-count providers, it isn’t one product fragmented. It’s three: Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, each decomposed to...
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July 04, 2026
Every Artifact Specification You Can Browse on APIs.io
APIs.io indexes 25,573 providers and 107,642 APIs, but an API is never just one file. Behind every provider page is a stack of machine-readable artifacts — the OpenAPI that describes the surface, the Arazzo that seque...
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July 04, 2026
Energy and Utilities on APIs.io: The Grid Goes Programmable
Energy and utilities is a smaller vertical in the catalog — 113 providers — but it’s one of the most consequential, and one of the least API-mature. This is the band where the physical grid, the meter on your wall, an...
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July 03, 2026
The APIs.io MCP Server Is Now in the Official MCP Registry
APIs.io has always been about making APIs findable — 25,500+ providers, 107,000+ APIs, and 120,000+ schemas you can search from a browser or hit through the REST API. But more and more of the traffic coming to the cat...
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July 03, 2026
Profiling Snowflake — 47 APIs and the Data Cloud Control Plane
Snowflake is where a lot of the world’s analytical data actually lives, and the catalog shows 47 distinct APIs behind it. What’s striking is how few are about running a query. Most of Snowflake’s surface is a control ...
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July 03, 2026
Profiling 15Five — The Public API Behind Performance Management
Next up in the profile-and-onboard video series on apis.io is 15Five, the AI-powered continuous performance management platform used by some 3,000 organizations for check-ins, OKRs, 1-on-1s, pulse surveys, and manager...
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July 03, 2026
Onboarding with 15Five — When the API Key Sits Behind a Demo
In the companion profile I walked the 15Five platform from the outside. This onboarding run is shorter than most in the series — and the reason it’s short is the finding.
I run these onboarding walks as a real ...
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July 03, 2026
Human Resources on APIs.io: The Workforce Stack
Human resources is a focused but fast-moving vertical in the catalog — 118 providers — and it’s a clean illustration of how a back-office function got unbundled into a stack of specialist APIs. Hire, onboard, pay, man...
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July 02, 2026
Media and Entertainment on APIs.io: The Content Pipeline
Media and entertainment is the single largest vertical in the catalog — 409 providers — which surprises people who expect fintech or dev tools to lead. It makes sense once you see the breadth: this band runs from raw ...
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July 02, 2026
Onboarding with 123FormBuilder — Free Signup to a JWT and Your First Forms Call
In the companion profile I walked the 123FormBuilder footprint from the outside. This video gets hands-on — a cold start from the docs to a working call against the REST API v2, narrating the real friction along the w...
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July 02, 2026
One Install Button for Your MCP Server, Across Every Client
APIs.io indexes MCP servers alongside OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Postman, Arazzo, and the rest of the artifacts that describe an API. Discovery is one half of the problem — once someone finds your MCP server, they still have ...
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July 02, 2026
Profiling 123FormBuilder — One API for Forms, Submissions, and Workflows
Continuing the profile-and-onboard video series on apis.io, this pair looks at 123FormBuilder — the online form, survey, and workflow builder used to collect, route, and integrate submission data across websites, port...
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July 02, 2026
Profiling Box — 51 APIs and Content With a Governance Layer
Box looks, from a distance, like cloud file storage with an API. The catalog shows 51 distinct APIs — and the interesting thing is how few of them are actually about files. The bulk of Box’s surface is the governance,...
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July 01, 2026
Profiling Zendesk — 145 APIs and the Support Operating System
Zendesk has the largest non-cloud-infrastructure surface in the catalog — 145 distinct APIs. That number is startling for a product most people think of as “the help-desk ticket tool.” Walk the surface and the count m...
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July 01, 2026
A Look Inside the APIs.io Analytics Page
We publish our own traffic. If APIs.io is going to be the open place you go to discover 25573 providers, 107642 APIs, and 120318 schemas, then how much the directory actually gets used shouldn’t be a number we keep to...
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July 01, 2026
Marketing and Advertising on APIs.io: The Customer Graph
Marketing and advertising is a sprawling vertical on apis.io — 268 providers — and it’s where the catalog’s CRM, customer-experience, and engagement surfaces all live. What ties them together is a single asset: the cu...
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June 30, 2026
The APIs.io Developer Area: Everything You Can Build On
APIs.io is a directory you can read with your eyes — but the whole point is that you can also read it with code. Behind the website that indexes 25573 providers, 107642 APIs, and 120318 schemas sits a programmable lay...
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June 30, 2026
Profiling 0x — Five APIs Behind the DEX Aggregation Layer
This is the first in a new pair of videos I’m running on apis.io — a profile of a provider, followed by an onboarding walkthrough of the same provider. First up is 0x, the institutional-grade DEX aggregation and crypt...
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June 30, 2026
Onboarding with 0x — From Signup to Your First Swap Call
In the companion profile I walked the 0x API footprint from the outside. This video does the opposite — it gets hands-on and goes all the way from a cold signup to a working curl call against the Swap API, narrating t...
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June 30, 2026
Government and Public Data on APIs.io: The Civic Surface
Government and public data is quietly one of the largest verticals in the catalog — 368 providers — and one of the most underrated. These aren’t startups chasing revenue; they’re agencies that have, often slowly, turn...
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June 30, 2026
Profiling the EPA — 31 APIs of Environmental Public Data
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is not a company, and that’s the point. It’s one of the clearest examples in the catalog of a government body that has turned decades of regulatory data into 31 distinct public...
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June 29, 2026
Retail and E-commerce on APIs.io: The Composable Stack
Retail and e-commerce is one of the largest verticals in the catalog — 325 providers — and one of the most layered. A modern store isn’t one platform anymore; it’s a stack of composable APIs for catalog, checkout, pay...
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June 29, 2026
Profiling BigCommerce — 65 APIs and the Headless Commerce Surface
BigCommerce sells itself as open SaaS, and the catalog backs the claim: 65 distinct APIs — the largest pure-commerce surface in the index. What makes it worth profiling isn’t the count, though. It’s the deliberate spl...
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June 28, 2026
Twenty-Seven More Providers Now Ship Agent Skills
Agent Skills — the SKILL.md packages that API providers publish so AI coding agents like Claude Code can operate their products correctly — have crossed from a novelty into an expected provider artifact. We just index...
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June 28, 2026
Profiling Twilio — 35 APIs Behind the Communications Control Plane
Twilio is the company that taught a generation of developers that a phone call could be an HTTP request. Most people still think of it as “the SMS API.” The catalog tells a different story — 35 distinct APIs that toge...
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June 28, 2026
Telecommunications on APIs.io: From Carrier to Code
Telecommunications is one of the deeper verticals in the catalog — 165 providers — and it’s also one of the most bifurcated. Half of it is the century-old carrier world finally exposing programmable surfaces; the othe...
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June 22, 2026
What People Searched for on APIs.io Today
Every search box is a survey. People type what they actually need, in their own words, and they do it whether or not the thing they’re after exists yet. So once a day we roll up the apisearch events coming off the sea...
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June 22, 2026
Climate & Sustainability on APIs.io: The Emerging Vertical
Climate & Sustainability is the smallest of the six hot industries we’re walking this week — 72 providers across 280 APIs — and that’s exactly why it’s interesting. This is what a vertical looks like before it con...
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June 22, 2026
Healthcare & Life Sciences on APIs.io: FHIR Is the Substrate
Healthcare & Life Sciences is smaller than the other hot verticals on apis.io — 215 providers across 743 APIs — but it’s structurally one of the most coherent, because almost everything in it now rides the same st...
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June 21, 2026
Security & Identity on APIs.io: Identity Is Becoming an Agent Problem
Security & Identity is one of the densest verticals on apis.io — 378 providers across 2,323 APIs — and in 2026 it’s also one of the most unsettled, because the thing being secured changed. The question used to be ...
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June 21, 2026
Payments on APIs.io: Built for Agents to Spend
Payments has always been one of the most API-mature verticals — 264 providers across 1,778 APIs — but 2026 added a genuinely new actor to the flow: the agent that initiates the transaction. The plumbing was already th...
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June 20, 2026
Cloud & Developer Tools on APIs.io: Where the Agent Stack Gets Built
Cloud & Developer Tools is the vertical with the largest raw API surface in the catalog — 616 providers across 3,911 APIs. It’s also the one quietly reinventing itself in 2026: the platforms developers already use...
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June 20, 2026
AI & Machine Learning on APIs.io: The Hottest Surface in 2026
If you ask which industry is moving fastest on apis.io in 2026, the answer isn’t close. AI & Machine Learning is the largest single vertical in the catalog — 650 providers across 3,079 APIs — and it’s the one wher...
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June 15, 2026
Analytics on APIs.io: Two Sources, Side by Side
The APIs.io network has a new page in the More dropdown across every site — apis.io/analytics — and it does something most sites keep private: it publishes our own web traffic, in the open, every week.
The twist is t...
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June 14, 2026
10,000 API Providers: What the Catalog Actually Contains
The APIs.io catalog crossed 10,000 providers today. That number got here through 69 rounds of catalog expansion — starting from 8,985 entries, adding 1,015 new provider repos over the past week. But the count is the l...
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June 04, 2026
Arazzo Lands on APIs.io: 4,540 API Workflows, Provider and Cross-Provider
The APIs.io network added a new layer this week — arazzo.apis.io — to index the workflows API providers expose, not just the endpoints. It joins the catalog as its own Workflows section in the More dropdown across eve...
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June 01, 2026
Logistics and Supply Chain on APIs.io: Tracking, Tendering, and Risk
Logistics-and-supply-chain is one of the deepest verticals on apis.io and one of the least talked about. It’s also one of the most agent-relevant — most of the work in this category is multi-step coordination across c...
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June 01, 2026
Profiling Notion — One API, Six Capabilities, A Block-Shaped Data Model
Notion is one of the catalog’s quieter profiles — one API, six capabilities — and a useful counter-example to the “API count equals surface size” framing. The interesting thing about the Notion surface isn’t how big i...
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May 31, 2026
Profiling Pinecone — Six APIs, Two Planes, One RAG Substrate
Pinecone is one of the cleaner examples in the catalog of a vendor that has matured a single product surface into a properly federated API portfolio. Where a younger vector-DB profile shows up as one API, Pinecone’s p...
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May 31, 2026
Healthcare and Life Sciences on APIs.io: FHIR, Payers, and the Slow Federation
Healthcare is the apis.io vertical where API shape is most directly dictated by regulation. Most providers in this cohort don’t get to design their API from scratch — they have to publish a FHIR-conformant surface for...
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May 30, 2026
Security and Compliance on APIs.io: GRC, IAM, and the New Surfaces
The security-and-compliance surface on apis.io is one of the broadest in the catalog and one of the most rapidly evolving. Every operational concern in this vertical eventually becomes an API — but the shape of those ...
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May 30, 2026
Profiling Drata — Compliance Automation, With an MCP Server
Drata is one of the more interesting compliance surfaces in the catalog because the API portfolio reflects a category that’s actually evolving in 2026 rather than calcifying. Four APIs, each doing distinct work, and o...
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May 29, 2026
The Agent-Surface Layer: 846 Skills and 239 MCP Servers Land on APIs.io
This week the APIs.io network added two new layers — skills.apis.io and mcp.apis.io — to index the agent-surface artifacts API providers are now shipping alongside their traditional documentation and OpenAPI specs. Th...
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May 29, 2026
Profiling Datadog — 85 APIs and the Shape of a Modern Observability Surface
Datadog is the largest observability profile in the catalog at 85 distinct APIs. That puts it in the same neighborhood as the card networks for sheer breadth — and the comparison is apt. A modern observability platfor...
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May 29, 2026
Observability and Monitoring on APIs.io: The Federation Era
Observability as a category on apis.io has more providers, more capability variation, and faster surface evolution than any other operational vertical. Five years ago it was a tools market. Today it’s a federation of ...
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May 28, 2026
Developer Tooling on APIs.io: From Repo to Production
The developer-tooling surface on apis.io is one of the most agent-relevant verticals in the catalog. Almost every autonomous-coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Devin, Codex) talks to some combination of these A...
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May 28, 2026
Profiling Linear — GraphQL-First, AsyncAPI-Documented Webhooks
Linear is the easiest provider in the network to overlook because the API count looks small: 2 APIs. But the shape of those two APIs is unusual enough — and influential enough on the modern dev-tool category — that it...
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May 27, 2026
Profiling Replicate — One API, Thirteen Capabilities, a Million Models
Replicate is one of the most interesting providers on the network because it represents an opposite shape from the enterprise fintech profiles I’ve been writing about. Mastercard has 101 APIs. Plaid has 39. Replicate ...
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May 27, 2026
AI Infrastructure on APIs.io: Inference, Vectors, and the Stack Underneath
“AI APIs” is one of the most-searched filters on apis.io. It’s also one of the least useful searches if you take it literally — half of the catalog touches AI in some way now. The more useful question is: what does th...
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May 26, 2026
Profiling Plaid — 39 APIs Behind the Banking Data Fabric
Plaid is usually described as “the API that connects your app to bank accounts.” That framing was accurate in 2015. In 2026 the catalog shows what the surface has actually grown into — 39 distinct APIs spanning identi...
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May 26, 2026
Banking and Fintech on APIs.io: What's Indexed, What's Useful
The banking-and-fintech surface on apis.io is one of the deepest verticals in the catalog. It spans card networks (Mastercard, Visa), payment processors (Stripe, Adyen, Square, Worldpay), data-fabric providers (Plaid,...
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May 25, 2026
Two Days at the apis.io Doorway: 8,455 Denies, Zero Unlocks
The apis.io unlock gate went live on the evening of 2026-05-23. It does one specific thing: HTML pages stay open to everyone, and machine-readable formats (raw OpenAPI / AsyncAPI / JSON Schema / FinOps YAML, the .well...
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May 22, 2026
Just APIs: 30 Stories From One Week That Are Not About MCP, Skills, or CLIs
It is easy this year to read every API story through the lens of MCP, skills, and the agent surface. Useful as that lens is, it can hide what is happening at the foundational layer — the actual REST endpoints, OpenAPI...
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May 21, 2026
Open Source in the Agent Era: 14 Stories From One Week
The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 14 stories across the API Evangelist network about the state of open source — CNCF graduations and incubations, Kubernetes releases, supply-chain security incidents, maintainer celeb...
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May 20, 2026
APIs.io Scores 83 (Level 5 Agent-Native) on the Is Your Site Agent-Ready Scan
Cloudflare just launched Is Your Site Agent-Ready? — a public scanner that grades a domain against the emerging stack of standards that lets AI agents discover and act on the web. I pointed it at apis.io and the resul...
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May 20, 2026
Incident Response in the Agentic Era: 13 Stories From One Week
Incident response is going through a quiet transition. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 13 stories across the API Evangelist network about MTTR, on-call, post-incident reviews, and the operational discipline of runn...
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May 19, 2026
Observability for the Agent Era: 14 Stories From One Week
Observability is one of the busiest categories in the API Evangelist network, and the week of May 4-8, 2026 was no exception — 14 stories worth tracking, ranging from agent-runtime monitoring to cloud-cost analytics, ...
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May 19, 2026
Capabilities Go Granular — 32,565 Up From 2,263
Today’s network rebuild is unusual. The provider count moved by 8, the API count by 52 — both modest. But the capabilities index expanded from 2,263 to 32,565 entries, a 14× deepening that reshapes how the catalog can...
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May 18, 2026
AI Governance Has Operational Stakes Now: 8 Stories From One Week
The AI governance conversation has stopped being a slide deck. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 8 stories across the API Evangelist network where the framing has shifted from “we should govern AI” to “here is the to...
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May 17, 2026
Fifty-Eight New Providers — Enterprise and Banking Move Into the Index
Today’s network rebuild was substantial. Across the upstream api-evangelist provider mirror, 58 new providers and 185 new APIs landed in the catalog, while 2,638 existing provider profiles picked up content refreshes ...
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May 17, 2026
AI Cost Is the Story No One Wants to Tell: 8 Stories From One Week
The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 8 stories across the API Evangelist network about the cost side of AI — what it costs to run, who pays for it, how to attribute it, and what the infrastructure utilization actually l...
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May 16, 2026
Data Platforms Are Going Agent: 16 Stories From One Week
The big data platforms — Snowflake, Databricks, Airbyte — published 16 stories during the week of May 4-8, 2026 that point in the same direction: their next chapter is about agents reading from, writing to, and reason...
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May 16, 2026
Ten New Providers, Sixteen New APIs — Today's Network Rebuild
This morning’s rebuild added 10 providers and 16 APIs to the APIs.io catalog. Running totals are now 4,353 providers and 16,034 APIs, with 2,254 capabilities (+18), 42,423 schemas (+66), 3,632 JSON-LD documents (+11),...
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May 15, 2026
RAG Grows Up: 11 Stories From One Week on Retrieval, Vectors, and Knowledge
The retrieval layer is doing the heavy lifting in agent systems, and the publication cadence is starting to reflect that. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 11 stories across the API Evangelist network about RAG, vect...
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May 14, 2026
Agents Are Doing the Work: 11 Stories From One Week of the New Workforce
The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 11 stories across the API Evangelist network where the framing was not “agents are coming” but “agents are doing the work, and the org chart is reflecting it.” Cloudflare cut 1,100 j...
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May 13, 2026
Agent Identity Is the Next Layer: 11 Stories From One Week
While the discourse has been eating MCP and skills, a quieter story has been forming underneath them: which agent is acting as whom, with what credentials, and on whose behalf. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 11 st...
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May 12, 2026
The CLI Just Got Interesting Again: 16 Stories From One Week
For most of the last decade the command line was a stable, slightly boring corner of the developer toolchain. Then Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex showed up, and the CLI is suddenly the most contested surface in...
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May 12, 2026
Profiling Cloudflare — The Edge Platform as 51 APIs and 5 Capability Domains
Cloudflare started as a CDN and DNS provider. Fifteen years later, the developer surface looks nothing like a CDN — it’s a full-stack edge platform spanning serverless compute, AI inference, vector search, object stor...
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May 11, 2026
The Top Tags You Can Search the APIs.io Network By
tags.apis.io is the cross-network tag index. Every provider, API, capability, schema, AsyncAPI spec, JSON-LD context, and Spectral ruleset in the catalog can be tagged, and the tag index aggregates those tags across t...
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May 11, 2026
The Runtime Below MCP: 15 Stories on Agent Frameworks and SDKs From One Week
Below the MCP surface and the skill bundle, there is a runtime layer — agent frameworks, agent SDKs, agent gateways, and the orchestration primitives that hold the whole stack together. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produ...
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May 10, 2026
Agent Skills, This Week: 8 Stories From the Layer Above MCP
If MCP is the surface that defines what tools exist, skills are the layer that defines how to use those tools well. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced fewer skill-related stories than MCP-related ones (8 vs 31), but t...
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May 09, 2026
The MCP Surface, Mapped: 31 Stories From One Week
The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 31 distinct stories across the API Evangelist network about Model Context Protocol — vendors shipping servers, building gateways, writing how-to guides, hardening the auth and testin...
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May 07, 2026
Three New Sites — Plans, Rate Limits, and FinOps Now Indexed Across the Network
The APIs.io network just grew by three sites. Pricing plans, rate limit policies, and FinOps profiles — three of the most operationally important pieces of metadata about an API, and three that have historically been ...
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May 06, 2026
2,136 Capabilities on APIs.io and How to Run Them With the Naftiko Framework
The capabilities count on capabilities.apis.io crossed 2,136 capabilities in this morning’s rebuild — a +767 jump from yesterday. That number deserves more than a stats-bump update because each of those capabilities i...
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May 05, 2026
Profiling Mastercard — 101 APIs Across 13 Capability Areas
When you think of payments APIs, the names that come up first are usually the modern fintech entrants — Stripe, Plaid, Adyen. The card networks that move the actual money tend to sit one layer beneath that conversatio...
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May 04, 2026
Top API Stories From Producers Last Week (Apr 26 – May 3, 2026)
The APIs.io network ingests blog posts from every API-bearing provider it indexes. Last week (Apr 26 → May 3) the feed pulled in 2,104 posts across 884 producers, of which 178 carried API-relevant signals in the title...
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May 03, 2026
Finding Event-Driven APIs, Webhooks, and Streams in the Index
Most of what gets profiled in the catalog is request/response — REST APIs documented with OpenAPI. But a growing slice of the network is the other half of the integration story: events, webhooks, message queues, and s...
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May 02, 2026
APIs.io Crosses 10,000 APIs as April Profiling Completes
The April profiling batch just landed and the numbers are substantial. This rebuild added 609 providers and 1,951 APIs to the catalog, pushing the total API count past 10,000 for the first time — 10,360 APIs across 2,...
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May 01, 2026
235 Providers and 717 APIs Added in Latest Rebuild
The APIs.io catalog grew by 235 providers and 717 APIs in this rebuild — the largest single-cycle expansion since the agent-readiness work shipped two weeks ago. The running totals now sit at 1,699 providers and 7,810...
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May 01, 2026
Another 245 Providers and 599 APIs Added
The APIs.io catalog added another 245 providers and 599 APIs in a second rebuild cycle today, pushing the running totals to 1,944 providers and 8,409 APIs — the first time the network has crossed 8,000 APIs. The /.wel...
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May 01, 2026
Naftiko Capabilities Turn APIs into Business Workflows That Speak REST, MCP, and Agent Skills
The APIs.io catalog now indexes 750 capabilities across hundreds of providers. That number is easy to scroll past without understanding what it means, because “capability” sounds like a synonym for “API.” It isn’t. A ...
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April 30, 2026
Profiling HubSpot's 63 APIs and 11 Capabilities
HubSpot is one of the wider provider profiles in the APIs.io catalog — wider than most because the platform has grown well past its CRM origins and now spans marketing, content, commerce, customer service, and a devel...
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April 29, 2026
Building an Agent-Native API Catalog
APIs.io has always been a directory of APIs. Over the last two weeks the directory itself became a consumable interface — built so an AI agent can discover, evaluate, and integrate with any of the 7,000+ APIs and 1,40...
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April 29, 2026
100+ New Providers Profiled
The APIs.io catalog grew by 102 providers and 345 APIs this morning — the largest single network refresh since automatic rebuild posts began. The newly profiled entries push the running totals to 1,464 providers and 7...
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April 21, 2026
Spec-Driven Integration and the Future of API Discovery
APIs.io has always been about making APIs discoverable by machines. The APIs.json format provides a machine-readable index of what APIs exist and where to find them. That solves the discovery problem for APIs themselv...
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October 18, 2024
Profiling Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Most Wanted API
I recently profiled the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Most Wanted API. There are additional APIs to be profiled, but I wanted to get this one in the system so we could use as part of other work.
One thing I t...
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October 18, 2024
Profiling Wolfram Alpha LLM API
I recently profiled the Wolfram Alpha LLM API. There are additional APIs to be profiled, but I wanted to get this one in the system so we could use as part of other work.
One thing I tested with this one was the abil...
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September 25, 2024
Profiling Moodys Entity Verification, Screening, and Risk API
I recently profiled the Moody’s KYC API, which was an acquisition they made of Kompany.com. I was able to find the documentation and an OpenAPI, which I added as API properties.
I profiled many common properties incl...
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September 25, 2024
Profiling InfluxDB Cloud Time Series API
I profiled the InfluxDB time series API. Their cloud API is the one I profiled, and there may be other opportunity to profile their other API offerings. I was able to find the documentation and an OpenAPI, as well as ...
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July 03, 2024
What is API Search
APIs.io is all about redefining what API search is. Since we created APIs.json and APIs.io back in 2014 numerous API catalogs, directories, and networks have either disappeared or gone dormant. API discovery is hard t...
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