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Headless

Score 20.8 / 100 13 providers +8 via APIs 16 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (13)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
AcquiaContentExperienceDrupalDXP20 APIs75.8
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
AntavoLoyaltyCustomer LoyaltyRewardsEnterprise18 APIs64.1Wix.comCompanyWebsite BuilderE-CommerceCMS2 APIs63.2KenticoCMSContent ManagementDigital Experience PlatformGraphQL5 APIs60.0
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
TYPO3CMSContent ManagementEnterprisePHP1 API42.7Shopify Storefront APICommerceE-CommerceGraphQL1 API41.0Spree CommerceCommerceE-CommerceOpen-Source5 APIs39.6SaleorCommerceE-CommerceGraphQL1 API39.5
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Open LoyaltyLoyaltyGamificationRewardsPoints1 API37.7PayloadApplication FrameworkCMSContent1 API36.8WixCMSE-CommerceWebsite Builder1 API34.9Craft CMSCMSContent ManagementGraphQLREST2 APIs34.5
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
LiferayOpen-SourceDigital ExperienceDXPRoles1 API25.4

APIs with this tag (16)

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Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Shopify HydrogenHydrogen is Shopify's React-based framework for building custom storefronts powered by the Storefront API. ...90.2Shopify Storefront APIThe Storefront API is a GraphQL API that provides commerce primitives to build custom, scalable, and perfor...90.2Acquia Content APIThe stable JSON:API 1.1 surface shared by every Acquia Source CMS site, plus the OAuth 2.0 endpoints that i...75.8Novu Inbox / In-App APIClient-side API and React Inbox component for rendering an embedded in-app notification center, marking not...71.1
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Medusa GraphQL APIMedusa's GraphQL surface over the store data core. The schema in this repo was derived from the OAS output ...62.7Kentico Headless GraphQL APIAuto-generated GraphQL API endpoint for each headless channel in Xperience by Kentico. Supports querying co...60.0
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Tableau VizQL Data ServiceThe VizQL Data Service provides a programmatic HTTP interface to query published data sources outside of Ta...50.4WooCommerce GraphQL APIWooCommerce GraphQL support is provided by the WPGraphQL WooCommerce extension (WooGraphQL), an open-source...49.7TYPO3 Headless JSON Content APIThe TYPO3 Headless extension provides a JSON API for delivering page content, navigation structures, layout...42.7Shopify HydrogenHydrogen is Shopify's opinionated React-based framework for building headless storefronts powered by the St...41.0
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
PayloadPayload is a TypeScript-first headless CMS and application framework that automatically generates REST, Gra...36.8Wix HeadlessWix Headless enables developers to use Wix business solutions as a backend while building custom frontends ...34.9Craft CMS GraphQL APIAuto-generated GraphQL API providing schema-based access to Craft CMS content including entries, assets, ca...34.5Plasmic Loader (Headless API)Runtime fetching API used by React, Next.js, and Gatsby integrations to pull Studio-published pages and com...32.1Mighty Networks Headless GraphQL APIBeta GraphQL interface that powers the official Mighty Networks clients, for building custom user-context c...32.0Drupal GraphQL APIThe Drupal GraphQL module is a contributed module that enables developers to craft and expose a GraphQL sch...30.5

Companies reaching this through an API (8)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Headless” 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.

Drupal Medusa Mighty Networks Novu Plasmic Shopify Tableau WooCommerce

Score breakdown

Frequency
39.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
51.9
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.4
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Next.js 6 co-occurrences CMS 9 co-occurrences Storefront 5 co-occurrences React 5 co-occurrences Cart 7 co-occurrences TypeScript 5 co-occurrences JavaScript 6 co-occurrences Commerce 6 co-occurrences

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