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Lightning

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Providers using this tag (7)

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Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
SalesforceSalesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform that provides a comprehensive s...294 APIs84.6Tomorrow.ioTomorrow.io is a Boston-based weather intelligence platform combining a global proprietary numerical weathe...10 APIs67.1
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
DTNDTN is an operational intelligence company delivering weather, agriculture, energy, and commodity market da...38 APIs57.5
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
XweatherXweather, a Vaisala company, provides weather data APIs delivering science-backed, hyper-local weather inte...9 APIs42.4
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
Danish Meteorological InstitutesThe Danish Meteorological Institute is a government agency responsible for providing meteorological and cli...4 APIs34.6
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
AerisWeatherComprehensive weather data REST API providing forecasts, observations, severe weather alerts, historical da...1 API19.9Lightning LabsAt Lightning Labs, we develop software that powers the Lightning Network. Our open source, secure, and scal...1 API15.8

APIs with this tag (10)

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Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Salesforce Aura ComponentsSalesforce Aura Components is the legacy JavaScript component framework for building dynamic web applicatio...84.6Salesforce Lightning APIThe Lightning API from Salesforce — 6 operation(s) for lightning.84.6Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS)The Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) provides HTML and CSS component blueprints, design tokens, an...84.6Salesforce Lightning Web Components (LWC)Lightning Web Components (LWC) is Salesforce's standards-based JavaScript framework for building UI compone...84.6Tomorrow.io Events APIRetrieve severe weather events, fires, floods, lightning swarms, and custom vector events affecting a point...67.1
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
DTN Lightning APIThe DTN Lightning API provides you access to worldwide near real-time and historical lightning data.57.5DTN Lightning WebSocketThe Lightning WebSocket delivers real-time lightning data over a persistent connection for instant updates.57.5
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Xweather Lightning APILightning strike data and nowcasts42.4
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Xweather Weather APIRESTful weather data API providing access to 60+ endpoints for current conditions, forecasts, observations,...19.9Lightning Labs Lightning APIThe Lightning API from Lightning Labs — 64 operation(s) for lightning.15.8

Score breakdown

Frequency
33.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
55.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

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