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Score 18.0 / 100 12 providers +11 via APIs 13 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (12)

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

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Sonatype Nexus RepositoryArtifact ManagementDevOpsDockerMaven2 APIs69.0Amazon CodeArtifactAmazonAmazon Web ServicesArtifact RepositoryPackage Management12 APIs69.5
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
npmPackagesJavaScriptNode.jsPackage Management3 APIs59.0
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
vltCompanyJavaScriptPackage ManagementPackage Registry1 API48.9CompatLabCompanyJavaScriptNode.js1 API46.3
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
GemfuryPackage RepositoryPrivate PackagesGem1 API36.1VerdaccioRegistryPackage Managerprivate-registry1 API35.9BitCompanyDevOpsComponent DevelopmentFrontend1 API30.2augments-devCompanyArtificial IntelligenceTypeScript4 APIs29.5
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Version SignalDeveloper ToolsPackage RegistryPyPI1 API24.2packagecloudPackage ManagementRepository HostingDevOpsDebian1 API17.5CheerioData ExtractionDOMHTMLHTML Parsing1 API23.4

APIs with this tag (13)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Azure DevOps Artifacts APIThe Azure DevOps Artifacts API provides REST endpoints for managing package feeds including NuGet, npm, Mav...81.9Azure DevOps Artifacts Package Types APIAPI for managing specific package types within Azure Artifacts feeds including NuGet, npm, Maven, Python, a...81.9Social Fetch Npm APIThe npm API from Social Fetch — 18 operation(s) for npm.67.6Node.js Driver for SQL ServerNode.js driver (tedious/mssql) for connecting JavaScript and TypeScript applications to SQL Server and Azur...67.0
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Adobe Firefly Services SDK for JavaScriptA unified Node.js and TypeScript SDK that provides typed client libraries for accessing the Photoshop API a...49.0hyreflow-ai Npm APIThe Npm API from hyreflow-ai — 2 operation(s) for npm.45.3Val Town TypeScript SDKOfficial TypeScript and JavaScript client library for the Val Town REST API, autogenerated from the OpenAPI...45.1Transcend CLIOfficial command line interface for Transcend, distributed on npm as @transcend-io/cli. Supports schema syn...42.4
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Verdaccio npm Registry APIThe Verdaccio npm Registry REST API implements the CommonJS Compliant Package Registry specification, provi...35.9lastseen-dev Npm APIThe Npm API from lastseen-dev — 5 operation(s) for npm.33.8Safe API Kit (TypeScript SDK)Official TypeScript client SDK for the Safe Transaction Service API. Wraps all Transaction Service endpoint...32.0Clawdbot Npm APIThe Npm API from Clawdbot — 2 operation(s) for npm.26.3
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
AxelarJS SDKJavaScript/TypeScript SDK wrapping common cross-chain operations on the Axelar network. Key classes include...22.6

Companies reaching this through an API (11)

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

Adobe Photoshop Axelar Azure DevOps Clawdbot hyreflow-ai lastseen-dev Microsoft SQL Server Safe (Gnosis Safe) Social Fetch Transcend Val Town

Score breakdown

Frequency
36.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
40.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Maven 5 co-occurrences Package Management 6 co-occurrences Packages 9 co-occurrences Node.js 6 co-occurrences JavaScript 8 co-occurrences TypeScript 5 co-occurrences Tokens 8 co-occurrences CLI 5 co-occurrences

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