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Federation

Score 21.9 / 100 15 providers +38 via APIs 57 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: Federationfederation

Providers using this tag (15)

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

Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented

APIs with this tag (57)

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Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 24 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Misskey federation APIThe federation API from Misskey — 9 operation(s) for federation.53.4WunderGraph Cloud GraphQL APIThe WunderGraph Cosmo GraphQL API provides full lifecycle management of federated GraphQL APIs, including s...51.6Apollo ConnectorsApollo Connectors simplify REST API orchestration in graphs, replacing unmaintainable procedural code with ...50.9Apollo FederationApollo Federation enables declarative composition of multiple APIs into a single federated GraphQL API. It ...50.9Apollo GraphOS Platform APIThe GraphOS Platform API enables programmatic management of Apollo GraphOS, including publishing schemas, r...50.9Apollo GraphQLWhether your team is new to GraphQL, or seasoned experts, learn why Apollo is the fastest and safest way to...50.9Apollo RouterApollo Router is a high-performance graph router written in Rust for running federated supergraphs using Ap...50.9Rover CLIRover is the command-line interface for managing and maintaining graphs with Apollo GraphOS. It supports pu...50.9Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)The University's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://shib.manchester.ac.uk/shibboleth, asser...50.4Yale University Federation APISAML 2.0 entity metadata48.4Rice Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity ProviderRice University's own Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 identity provider, publishing a live EntityDescriptor with an IDP...46.9UGM Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity ProviderUGM's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://sso.ugm.ac.id/idp/shibboleth, publishing an unsign...46.6Lemmy Federation APIActivityPub federation and cross-instance operations46.5IITB Central SSO — OpenID ConnectThe IIT Bombay Computer Centre's central identity provider, and the credential every institutional service ...45.8myLogin Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)The university's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, myLogin, operated by the Universitätsrechenzentrum. Its ...44.0Kuma Multizone APIKuma's Multizone deployment API enables managing service meshes across multiple Kubernetes clusters and Uni...43.2TU Berlin Matrix Homeserver (Client-Server API)TU Berlin runs its own Matrix homeserver for institutional messaging, with an Element web client at chat.tu...43.2Politecnico di Milano Shibboleth Identity ProviderThe university's own Shibboleth identity provider, publishing its SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at https://shib...42.9BigQuery Connection APIThe BigQuery Connection API enables developers to create and manage connections between BigQuery and extern...42.8Texas A&M Shibboleth Identity Provider MetadataSAML 2.0 metadata for Texas A&M University's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, published unauthenticated fr...42.7Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)The University's own Shibboleth 3.x Identity Provider, entityID https://webauth.soton.ac.uk/shibboleth, ass...40.8GraphQL Mesh APIGraphQL federation framework that composes any API service — REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, SOAP, OData, JSON Schema,...40.6GraphQL Tools APIA set of utilities for faster GraphQL development, enabling SDL-first schema building, type-safe resolver c...40.6Hive GatewayHive Gateway is a federated GraphQL routing engine from The Guild that supports both Apollo Federation and ...40.6
Thin 21 Limited public surface area
Linkerd Multicluster APIThe Linkerd Multicluster extension provides Kubernetes CRDs and a gateway component that enables transparen...38.6Maastricht University Identity Provider (ADFS / SURFconext / eduGAIN)Maastricht University runs its own identity provider on login.maastrichtuniversity.nl and publishes two mac...37.9Spacetime Federation API (East-West Interface)The Federation API, or East-West Interface, allows peer networks to request and to supply network resources...37.9Identity Platform OAuth Configuration APIThe OAuth Configuration API allows developers to programmatically manage OAuth identity provider configurat...37.3Grafbase Management APIGraphQL-based management API that powers the Grafbase Dashboard and enables programmatic control of organiz...37.2FAU Matrix HomeserverFAU operates a Matrix homeserver — Synapse 1.159.0 at matrix.fau.de — with a hosted Element web client at c...37.1Synapse Federation APIFederation management35.9Searchcraft Federation APIThe Federation API from Searchcraft — 3 operation(s) for federation.35.7Spring Security SAML2SAML 2.0 Service Provider support for Spring Security. Enables SSO integration with SAML identity providers...35.5UQ Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth)UQ operates a SAML 2.0 Shibboleth identity provider, entityID urn:mace:federation.org.au:testfed:uq.edu.au,...34.8Waseda Identity Provider (Shibboleth SAML 2.0)Waseda operates its own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider. The metadata document is served anonymously ...32.4VictoriaMetrics Admin / Federation APIAdministrative endpoints for time-series deletion (/api/v1/admin/tsdb/ delete_series), data export/import (...32.1ASU Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity ProviderASU's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID urn:mace:incommon:asu.edu, asserting the scope asu.edu. AS...31.8Matrix Server-Server (Federation) APIFederation API that lets Matrix homeservers exchange events, presence, and key information with one another...29.8Microsoft Entra ID Tenant — OpenID Connect DiscoveryQueen Mary's Microsoft Entra ID tenant, GUID 569df091-b013-40e3-86ee-bd9cb9e25814, EU region scope. The Ope...28.8Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)Queen Mary's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://idp.shibboleth.qmul.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth, a...28.8ENS de Lyon Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)ENS de Lyon self-hosts its Shibboleth Identity Provider on its own registrable domain. The entityID is http...28.6Microsoft Entra ID tenant (institutional identity)The University's Microsoft Entra ID tenant, 8c2b19ad-5f9c-49d4-9077-3ec3cfc52b3f, resolvable from the abdn....27.3Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)The University's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://shibserv.abdn.ac.uk/shibboleth, asserti...27.3UPM Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity ProviderUPM's own Shibboleth identity provider, publishing conforming SAML 2.0 and SAML 1.1 metadata at its entityI...26.9IIT Delhi Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)IIT Delhi runs its own Shibboleth identity provider at idp.iitd.ac.in and self-publishes its SAML 2.0 metad...26.8
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (38)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Federation” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Aalyria Amazon Web Services Arizona State University Casdoor ETSI Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Gadjah Mada University Google BigQuery Google Identity Platform Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Kuma Lemmy Linkerd Maastricht University Matrix Misskey Modern NeuVector Politecnico di Milano Queen Mary University of London Rice University Searchcraft Spring Security Technical University of Berlin Texas A&M University Universiti Putra Malaysia University of Aberdeen University of Freiburg University of Manchester University of Queensland University of Southampton University of Twente VictoriaMetrics VMware Waseda University Yale University École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Score breakdown

Frequency
51.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
37.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
9.7
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

ROR 12 co-occurrences eduGAIN 15 co-occurrences Repository 15 co-occurrences SSO 15 co-occurrences SAML 24 co-occurrences Crossref 9 co-occurrences Shibboleth 17 co-occurrences Identity Federation 20 co-occurrences

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