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Read Only

Score 20.4 / 100 6 providers +23 via APIs 26 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: Read OnlyRead-Only

Providers using this tag (6)

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

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
GZW Data APIGamingVideo Gamesgray-zone-warfareGame Data1 API62.0
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
BTC War Live Market Data APIFinanceCryptocurrencyMarket DataBitcoin3 APIs47.9VoidpetCompanyGamesGamingMental Health2 APIs39.8
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Rugspull Read APIBNB Smart ChainBSCwbnb2 APIs38.44chanSocialBulletin BoardImageboard6 APIs35.8Studio GhibliAnimeStudio GhibliFilmCharacters5 APIs33.9

APIs with this tag (21)

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Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Upstox MCP ServerUpstox operates a hosted, OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol server at https://mcp.upstox.com/mcp that ...79.5
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
ColdSnap Store JSON (Ajax) APIThe unauthenticated read-only JSON surface Shopify serves from the ColdSnap storefront and which the store'...43.4Empower Balance APIListed in the public API catalog of the Empower developer portal, operated by Great-West Lifeco's U.S. reti...43.4Toornament Viewer APIRead-only public API for accessing tournament information without full organizer authentication. Ideal for ...40.3
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
CentAUR Repository REST ListingsThe read-only EPrints REST interface on CentAUR. GET /rest/ returns the dataset index (eprint, user, subjec...38.1Research Data Archive REST ListingsThe same read-only EPrints REST interface on the Research Data Archive host. GET /rest/, /rest/eprint/ (47 ...38.1Dolls Kill Storefront Product JSON APIThe read-only, unauthenticated JSON endpoints Dolls Kill documents in its own agents.md for agents that onl...37.3Substack Developer APINarrowly scoped official API that returns public Substack profile data for a given LinkedIn handle. Access ...37.1Substack MCP ServerOfficial remote Model Context Protocol server that connects a Substack publication to an MCP-capable AI ass...37.1Substack RSS FeedsPer-publication public RSS feeds available at https://{publication}.substack.com/feed for syndication and r...37.1Moda Data APIRead-only analytics API for programmatic access to Moda conversation data: overview/KPIs, conversations, wo...35.5OLIPOP Storefront Product JSONUnauthenticated read-only JSON endpoints the store's own agent instructions publish for agents that only ne...35.0Exactly Protocol Previewer APIRead-only smart contract interface for previewing deposits, borrows, withdrawals, and repayments across all...34.7Statuspage Status API (v2)Public, read-only REST API exposed by every Statuspage at /api/v2 that returns current status, components, ...34.5IPFS HTTP Gateway APIThe IPFS HTTP Gateway API is an implementation-agnostic interface for retrieving content-addressed data fro...32.8Whimsical API (Beta)Limited-beta REST API. Endpoints are read-oriented and use POST verbs: `users.get`, `teams.list`, `comments...28.6Omaze UK Storefront JSONThe anonymous, read-only JSON surface of the Omaze UK storefront, documented by Omaze itself in /agents.md ...27.9
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
M.Gemi Storefront Product JSONThe read-only Shopify storefront JSON surface for the M.Gemi catalog, documented by the store's own /llms.t...26.0BrewDog Storefront Product JSONThe unauthenticated, read-only product and collection JSON surface of the brewdog.com Shopify storefront, d...24.4Pendle Router Static (On-chain Helper)RouterStatic is an on-chain read-only helper contract that exposes simulation and quoting functions used by...24.3Coursera Catalog APIPublic REST API for browsing Coursera's catalog of courses, specializations, instructors, partners, and cat...22.0

Companies reaching this through an API (23)

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

100 Thieves Adrenaline Shoc BrewDog ColdSnap Coursera Dolls Kill Exactly Protocol Great-West Lifeco Hubble Contacts IPFS M.Gemi Moda Olipop Omaze Pendle Finance Quip NYC Statuspage Substack Toornament University of Reading Upstox Voyage Foods Whimsical

Score breakdown

Frequency
39.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
48.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.4
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Universal Commerce Protocol 7 co-occurrences Cart 8 co-occurrences Agentic Commerce 10 co-occurrences Checkout 10 co-occurrences Shopify 10 co-occurrences JSON 9 co-occurrences Catalog 14 co-occurrences Direct to Consumer 6 co-occurrences

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