This is the running log of everything we ship across the APIs.io network — the search ranking, the provider catalog and ratings, the API and MCP server, and the network sites. Newest first. What’s planned next lives on the Roadmap.
First-party (brand-owner) ranking signal
Quality rating was standing in for ownership; now search knows who owns a brand. A provider is the canonical owner of its own name plus any sub-brands it operates (e.g. Meta owns WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger; Microsoft owns GitHub). When your search names a brand, that owner's first-party API gets an explicit bonus over third-party integrators — so "whatsapp" leads with the official WhatsApp APIs, not the dozens of tools that merely connect to WhatsApp. Non-brand queries (payments, weather) are unaffected.
Quality- and ownership-aware search ranking
Search results were ordered by text relevance alone, so a query like "send WhatsApp message" buried the first-party WhatsApp Business API under a pile of lower-quality third-party matches. Ranking now blends relevance with the provider quality rating:
- Field boosting — a match in an API's name or tags now outweighs a passing mention in its description, so the API actually named after what you searched rises to the top.
- Quality-weighted ordering — among the APIs that match, the composite quality rating (Exemplar → Minimal) decides the order, so higher-quality, first-party APIs surface first. "send WhatsApp message" now returns the WhatsApp Business API at #1.
- Strict matches still rank ahead of synonym-broadened recall, and all weights are tunable without a code change.
Public changelog and roadmap
Added this changelog and a public roadmap, both linked from the site footer, so changes and what's coming next are tracked in the open.
Have a request or noticed something off? Open an issue at github.com/api-search/network or email info@apievangelist.com.