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Reference

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Variants seen in the corpus: Referencereference

Providers using this tag (7)

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

Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (70)

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 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 14 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 19 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Databento Reference APIReference and non-price data that complements the market data feeds - a security master (instrument definit...51.7BNSF Reference Files APIThe BNSF Reference Files API resolves the rail industry code systems the rest of the BNSF surface is writte...50.8LSEG World-Check One Reference APIReference data for screening - countries, nationalities, providers, search filters, World-Check profiles an...50.1Fortellis AsyncAPI Hello World ReferenceHello World AsyncAPI reference distributed by Fortellis to teach the asynchronous API pattern, channel topo...48.8Moody's Corporation Reference APIOperations for retrieving frequency, vintage, and file type metadata48.7Climatiq Reference APIReference data such as regions and unit types.48.3FERC Reference APIForm lists and submission constraints.47.6Wealth-X Reference APIReference / lookup data used to build searches.47.5MNTN Reference APIEnumerations and lookup data shared across endpoints.47.3Rice Kinder Institute Urban Data Platform APIThe only publicly callable API Rice University itself operates. Serves the Kinder Institute for Urban Resea...46.9Socialbakers Reference APIManaged profiles, labels, label groups, listening queries, ad accounts46.7Refinitiv Reference APIReference data operations for retrieving profile details and resolution toolkit configurations.46.2Sideko SDK ReferenceBoilerplate code used by Sideko to generate SDKs, including example SDKs that demonstrate the generated sur...43.9OpticOdds Reference APISports, leagues, sportsbooks, market types.42.0Elexon Reference APIReference data which can be used to filter other API requests.41.3HealthSherpa Reference APIThe Reference API from HealthSherpa — 3 operation(s) for reference.40.1One Degree Reference APIProperty types, rating types, and guides.40.0Bunny.net Countries APIReference endpoint returning the list of countries Bunny.net supports for geo-targeting in Pull Zone and DN...39.5Bunny.net Regions APIReference endpoint returning the list of Bunny.net edge and storage regions for use in zone configuration.39.5
Thin 24 Limited public surface area
RunSignup Reference APIReference data such as countries and states used across the API.39.2Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) and Handbook (FAH)Department-wide policy and procedural manuals issued by the Office of Directives Management.38.1Monad JSON-RPC APIFull JSON-RPC method reference — standard Ethereum eth_*, net_*, web3_*, debug_*, and trace_* methods plus ...37.7Sample Transactions APIThe State Street Sample Transactions API is a reference and onboarding API provided in the developer portal...37.6Metals-API Reference APISymbols and reference data.37.5Polygon.io Reference APITicker reference data.36.7Maxar MGP Postman CollectionPublic Postman workspace documenting the Maxar Geospatial Platform API surface for quick exploration and te...35.6TutorCruncher Reference APIReference data - subjects, countries, categories, action types.35.2Portcast Reference APISupported carrier SCAC reference data.34.8Claim.MD Reference APIPayer directory, enrollment, appeals, and webhooks.34.6Apache HTTP Server Configuration ReferenceConfiguration directive reference for Apache HTTP Server covering VirtualHost, mod_ssl, mod_rewrite, mod_pr...33.7Amiibo API Reference APIReference data endpoints for types, series, characters, and game series33.3OpenPrescribing Reference APIBNF code, organisation code and organisation-location reference lookups.32.5Spinwheel Reference APIConstants and vehicle reference data.32.0Willo Reference APIRead-only reference data - languages and IDV countries of employment.32.0Sportsbook API Reference APIThe Reference API from Sportsbook API — 2 operation(s) for reference.31.7Forex Reference APIThe Reference API from Forex — 1 operation(s) for reference.31.0References DHL eCommerce AmericasProvides reference data for products, fields, and glossary information across DHL eCommerce Americas APIs.29.5IGDB Reference APIReference data such as keywords, collections, and franchises.29.1MCP Reference ServersCanonical collection of reference MCP server implementations maintained by the project. The active servers ...27.1ReDocReDoc is an open-source API documentation renderer for OpenAPI specifications, originally created by Rebill...27.1Containerfile ReferenceThe official Containerfile reference shipped with the containers/common project. Documents every Containerf...26.8Dockerfile ReferenceThe Dockerfile format reference maintained by Docker. Containerfile is a strict superset of Dockerfile, so ...26.8Helium Documentation RepositorySource repository for docs.helium.com, covering the Mobile and IoT networks, tokens, wallets, and network-d...26.4
Emerging 9 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

Companies reaching this through an API (66)

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

Aave Amiibo API Apache HTTP Server API Evangelist APITube Aviation Edge BICS Bloomberg L.P. BNSF Bunny.net CDK Global Central Intelligence Agency Chainguard Claim.MD Climatiq Containerfile Currencycloud Databento Delft University of Technology Department of State DeveloperHub DHL Elexon fatsecret FERC Forex Getty Images HealthSherpa Helium Network IGDB ITU Lane API London Stock Exchange Group Maxar Metals-API Microsoft .NET MNTN Model Context Protocol (MCP) Monad Moody's Corporation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration One Degree OpenPrescribing OpticOdds Paga PayMate Polygon Polygon.io Portcast PostEx
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Score breakdown

Frequency
59.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
23.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.6
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Reference Data 7 co-occurrences Currency 5 co-occurrences Documentation 6 co-occurrences Financial Data 5 co-occurrences News 5 co-occurrences OpenAPI 5 co-occurrences Market Data 7 co-occurrences Collection 6 co-occurrences

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Openapi tag48
Openapi op tag180

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