APIs.io Developer Blog

Stories about the APIs.io developer portal — feed APIs, search, and building on the APIs.io network.

A New Developer Portal, Nine Data Feeds, and an Agent-Ready Network
May 02, 2026

A New Developer Portal, Nine Data Feeds, and an Agent-Ready Network

The APIs.io developer portal has been rebuilt from the ground up. The old version documented two HTTP APIs — search and authentication — in a minimal UI that hadn’t changed since 2023. The new portal is organized arou...
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APIs.io Has a Spectral Powered API Ratings System
December 05, 2023

APIs.io Has a Spectral Powered API Ratings System

When Steve asked me what we could do with APIs.io, I knew I wanted to improve upon what APIs.io v1 was as an API search, but I also lay the groundwork for what we need to help alleviate our API discovery pain. Every t...
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How the APIs.io Search Works
December 05, 2023

How the APIs.io Search Works

API search is hard. We haven’t seen a successful solution emerge in the last 20 years, and I think we need to think differently when it comes to this problem. We have a lot of ideas about how search should work, but w...
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Welcome to APIs.io
December 05, 2023

Welcome to APIs.io

APIs.io is the first API search engine. Built on top of the APIs.json specification, APIs.io empowers API producers to publish APIs.json indexes of their API operations. APIs.json provides metadata about each API bein...
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An APIs.io Prototype
August 13, 2023

An APIs.io Prototype

I wanted to develop a prototype of the APIs.io search that brought the API search engine back to life using the APIs.json format. However, in the same motion I wanted to address two shortcomings that we never got arou...
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