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API Evangelist Network API
Sixteen years of API research as one API.
The API Evangelist network — 5,000+ stories, 77 topic areas, 2,400+ governance building blocks (guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies, schema, properties, experiences, lifecycle), conversations, videos, white papers, tools, timelines, services, and the API vocabulary — served as a single, searchable REST API.
Tiers. The API works without a key on the free tier (5 req/s, 1,000 req/day). Requests from apievangelist.com network sites get the internal tier automatically. Higher-limit keys are available by request — email [email protected].
Providers. The API provider catalog (4,500+ companies) intentionally lives on APIs.io — this API covers API Evangelist's own research network and does not duplicate it.
MCP. Every resource here is also available as MCP tools at https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP), including concierge tools (get_overview, guide_topic) that bundle curated guidance for a topic.
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Overview
Service info and unified search across the whole network.
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Stories
The API Evangelist blog — 5,000+ posts since 2010.
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Areas
The 77 focused topic areas and their related-area graph.
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Guidance
Editorial guidance across the history, technology, business, politics, governance, and evangelism of APIs.
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Governance
The policies and rules that align the business and engineering sides of API operations.
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Toolbox
Standards, solutions, tools, schema, and properties — the raw materials of API operations.
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Operations
Strategies, experiences, and the stops along the API lifecycle.
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Media
Conversations, videos, white papers, and the newsletter.
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Reference
The API vocabulary and the static machine-readable feeds.
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Timelines
The API, resource, industry, and people timelines behind sixteen years of research.
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Services
API Evangelist's first-party offerings — the front door to working with Kin Lane.
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Contact
Every way to reach API Evangelist.
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Insights
Demand-side intelligence — what ~5,800 companies (Fortune 1000 + API providers) build, buy, and hire for around APIs, data, and AI. Discovery is free; per-company depth + gaps are Pro. (The supply↔demand provider match lives on apis.io.)
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Tags
The tag taxonomy across the whole network — the map of everything API Evangelist covers, and the join key behind every /related response.
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Synthesis
Curated synthesis over the network rather than raw retrieval: guides assembled for a topic, and the counts behind the catalog.
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APIs
Individual API resources tracked across the network, and the relevance graph between them.
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Papers
White papers, and the relevance graph between them.
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Building Blocks
The governance building blocks — guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies, schema, properties, experiences and lifecycle — and the relevance graph between them.
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Standards Measurement
What a standards body actually ships — repositories, maturity, governance, coalition — as distinct from the catalog entry describing what a standard IS.
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Demand
The demand-side view: what companies build, buy and hire for, and — inverted — which companies show demand for a given service, tool or standard.
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