Feature

Filtering & Querying

Server-side filters, sorting, and field selection.

47 providers 94 APIs 43 declared variants

Queries can be narrowed with filters, sort orders, date ranges, and sparse fieldsets. Cuts payload size and the amount of client-side post-processing an integrator has to write.

47 API providers on the APIs.io network offer filtering & querying. The highest-rated are Close, Commerce Layer, IPinfo, Barndoor, Buildkite.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 11 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 14 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
arXivarXiv is the open-access e-print repository operated by Cornell Tech, hosting more than two million preprin...2 APIs53.0PhonelyPhonely is an AI voice agent platform that answers business phone calls in real time with large-language-mo...2 APIs49.3AWS RedshiftAmazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and co...2 APIs49.2StackOneStackOne is an AI-powered embedded integration platform as a service (iPaaS) designed to simplify and accel...1 API47.6BlockdaemonBlockdaemon is an institutional blockchain infrastructure company founded in 2017 by Konstantin Richter. It...11 APIs47.5NominatimNominatim is an open-source (BSD-2-Clause) search engine for OpenStreetMap data, supporting forward geocodi...1 API47.0HumaansHumaans is a London-headquartered modern HRIS (Human Resources Information System) for fast-growing, distri...1 API46.2GutendexGutendex is a simple, self-hosted JSON-based web API for serving book catalog information from Project Gute...1 API45.5IEEE XploreIEEE Xplore is the authoritative technical library operated by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics ...1 API44.4Apache NutchApache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable open-source web crawler software project built on Apache H...1 API44.1ChromaChroma (Chroma DB) is an open-source AI-native embedding database designed to make it easy to build LLM app...2 APIs43.9MeilisearchMeilisearch is an open source, lightning-fast search engine API that brings AI-powered hybrid search to sit...1 API43.7Apache SolrApache Solr is an open-source enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene. It provides distributed in...1 API42.6TypesenseTypesense is a fast, typo-tolerant, open-source search engine designed for developer productivity. It provi...2 APIs39.9
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
TrinoTrino is an open-source, distributed SQL query engine built for lightning-fast analytics over large, hetero...1 API38.7Youkiyouki is an open source container runtime written in Rust that implements the OCI runtime specification as ...2 APIs38.2Punk APIPunk API is a free, no-auth REST API exposing BrewDog's "DIY Dog" open-source beer recipe collection — 325 ...1 API36.3Microsoft Entity FrameworkMicrosoft Entity Framework is an object-relational mapping (ORM) framework for .NET developers enabling dat...2 APIs35.4JSONPlaceholderJSONPlaceholder is a free, no-auth fake REST API for prototyping, tutorials, and testing. It exposes six re...1 API34.9KnitKnit is a unified API platform for B2B products, AI agents, and MCP clients, providing integrations infrast...1 API34.4Lex MachinaLex Machina is a legal analytics platform owned by LexisNexis that transforms raw court documents and docke...1 API33.6Ariba Guided BuyingSAP Ariba Guided Buying provides a consumer-like shopping experience for enterprise procurement, enabling e...2 APIs32.5bugsnagBugsnag is an application stability monitoring platform that helps software teams detect, diagnose, and fix...5 APIs32.4Bored APIThe Bored API is a free, open-source, no-authentication public API that serves suggestions for things to do...2 APIs31.8Apache RocketMQApache RocketMQ is a distributed messaging and streaming platform with low latency, high performance, and r...1 API29.0U.S. Treasury Fiscal DataThe U.S. Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service manages the government's finances including collecting reven...4 APIs28.5Apache MahoutApache Mahout is an open-source framework for building scalable machine learning applications. The project ...2 APIs28.2
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented

What Providers Actually Declared

This feature is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

Account activities log with type filteringBatch retry API for failed jobs with optional state filteringCase Query API with filtering by participants, dates, events, resolutions, findings, remedies, and damagesCategory FilteringCollaborative FilteringConfigurable URL FilteringContent FilteringContext FilteringCountry And Layer FilteringDate-Range FilteringDynamic filteringEvent FilteringFaceted SearchFaceted search and filteringFederated QueryField FilteringField-Lookup FilteringFilters, Includes, Field SelectionFlexible Field SelectionGeosearch and faceted searchGlobal Query FiltersHoliday Type FilteringIncremental sync with updated_after filteringMessage FilteringMetadata FilteringMulti-dimensional filteringPlatform FilteringQuery FilteringRecipe-Oriented Query FiltersRich FilteringRich filtering operators ($in, $nin, $gt, $gte, $lt, $lte, $or) on most collectionsSeccomp FilteringSecurity Universe FilteringSensitive data filteringSpam filtering on inbound callsTag-based filtering and organization of discovered assetsTagging across resources; sparse fieldsets; filtering, sorting, pagination, and include parameters per JSON:APITechnographic filtering (technology stack) and exact-title matchingToken Pricing & Metadata API (Beta) with tag-based filteringTool Filtering

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