APIs.io Blog
Stories about API profiling, discovery, and the future of spec-driven integration across the APIs.io network.
June 02, 2026
Automated Agent Onboarding on Kong — Five Operations, One Round Trip
Kong’s Konnect Platform API is the cleanest target in the field for automated agent onboarding. 1,242 operations across the Gateway Admin API and the Konnect Platform API, 13 native MCP operations, and a first-class a...
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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
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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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
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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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
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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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
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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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
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 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 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 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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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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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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