APIs.io APIs

The APIs.io web site is powered by APIs, so it makes sense to publish the APIs for others to use. The one you are probably interested in is the APIs.io Search API, as the others are designed to operate the search engine. But, you never know, so we made sure and publish all of them here for you to explore.

Search API

This is the API behind the APIs.io search engine.

humanURL: https://developer.apis.io/documentation
baseURL: https://search-api.apis.io

Operations

Search APIs (GET) /search/apis - Searching across all APIs by keyword, property type, or maintainer.

Parameters

search
limit
page

Example Response

Submit API (POST) /search/apis - Submit an API to be included in the index.

Example Request

{"aid":"apis.json","name":"Example API","type":"Index","description":"This is an example APIs.json file, demonstrating what is possible with\nthe API discovery specification.","image":"https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg","tags":["Application Programming Interface","API"],"created":"2024-05-22","modified":"2024-05-22","url":"http://example.com/apis.json","specificationVersion":"0.18","apis":[{"aid":"apis.json:example-api","name":"Example API","description":"This provides details about a specific API, telling what is possible.","image":"https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg","humanURL":"http://example.com","baseURL":"http://api.example.com","tags":["API","Application Programming Interface"],"properties":[{"type":"Documentation","url":"https://example.com/documentation"},{"type":"OpenAPI","url":"http://example.com/openapi.yml"}]}],"common":[{"type":"Signup","url":"https://example.com/signup"},{"type":"Login","url":"https://example.com/login"},{"type":"Authentication","url":"http://example.com/authentication"}],"maintainers":[{"FN":"Kin Lane","X-twitter":"apievangelist","email":"info@apievangelist.com"}]}

Example Response

Authentication API

This is the API for turning your GitHub Personal Access Token into an API key you can pass in to make API calls to the APIs.io API.

humanURL: https://developer.apis.io/documentation
baseURL: https://auth-api.apis.io

Operations

Submit Token for Validation (POST) /token/validation - Submit a GitHub token to validate as API key.

Example Request

Example Response

APIs.io is about making APIs available via search, but it is also designed to demonstrate a high bar for how you can run an API using APIs.json is not just the index, but a rating system. Because of this we are interested in providing as many of the success API platform building blocks as possible.

APIs.io APIs

Search API

Tags

Operations

Authentication API

Tags

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