Kin Lane, the API Evangelist

API Discovery In The Real World Is Complicated

RESTFEST Greenville

September 2018

What Does API Discovery Mean to You?

API Root?

Hypermedia?

ProgrammableWeb?

Google?

Why Is API Being Discovered?

Looking For New APIs

Use In My Application(s)

Planning For Team(s)

Planning For Clients / Customers

Does This Service Have An API?

Developing An API

Find my API

Looking for public API

Looking For Internal API

APIs Across Organization

APIs Using Same Pattern

API Details At Develop Time

API Details At Run Time

API Details At Manage Time

API Details For iPaaS

API Details For Service Mesh

Find APIs

ProgrammableWeb?

Google?

Rapid API

APIs.io

APIs.guru

Google API Discovery

IDE

GitHub

Be Found

API Definitions

JSON Home

Schema.org

Known Knowns ~ Known Unknowns ~ Unknown Unknowns

API Operations

APIs.json

Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF)

Data.json

Overview

Documentation, Plans, Pricing

OpenAPI, Postman

Twitter, Github

API Commons

Plans, SDK, SLA

APIs.io

The API Stack

The API Gallery

Publish To Github

Search APIs

/resource/path



Search by Path

This API does something amazing.



Search by Summary

?query=whatver&order=asc



Search by Parameter

?ticker=aapl



Search by Enumerator

API Rating

Find By Activity

Find By Reliability

Find By Price

Find By Access

Find By SLA

Find By Team

Stortyelling

Speak

Listen

The End

By Kin Lane

@kinlane