API discovery ?!

Talk given at API London Meetup in Sept. 2015.

Describing projects around API discovery with APIs.json and APIs.io

Transcript

1. API discovery?! another buzzword? Nicolas Grenié @picsoung Hacker in Residence at 3scale.net @3scale
2. Where do you find APIs?
3. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung London API meetup - Sept. 2015 Some directories 2005 14k APIs owned by Mulesoft 2013 5k APIs owned by Mashape http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory https://www.publicapis.com/
4. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung London API meetup - Sept. 2015 All existing solutions are directories
5. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung London API meetup - Sept. 2015 Directories won’t scale with the increase in number of APIs
6. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung London API meetup - Sept. 2015 There should be an automative, machine readable way of doing API discovery
7. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung London API meetup - Sept. 2015
8. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung London API meetup - Sept. 2015 launched in May 2014 at Gluecon latest version of spec: 0.15 (April 2015) supported mainly by open-source (MIT) https://github.com/apis-json/api-json JSON-schema description support X-vendor extension also integrated by WSO2, SmartBear, API Science…
9. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung London API meetup - Sept. 2015 Example https://gist.githubusercontent.com/kinlane/10094618/raw/ 4dbb7254635417b2daa071aa1ca139a7d7f225bc/api.json
10. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung London API meetup - Sept. 2015 ≈
11. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung London API meetup - Sept. 2015 ≈ {API}s.io
12. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung London API meetup - Sept. 2015 {API}s.io launched in May 2014 at Gluecon open-source https://github.com/apisio/apis.io ~1000 APIs listed Official listing from companies: Paypal, Spotify, trade.gov, Xero 5000 visits for 4000 searches this month http://apis.io
13. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung London API meetup - Sept. 2015 To go further? IoT infrastructure: each part will send it’s apis.json to a central unit (server?). The unit then knows what APIs are available. Could have an UI too. Deploy APIs: span new APIs in containers using APIs.son + Swagger API search Engines per vertical
14. API Discovery Nicolas Grenié @picsoung Hacker in Residence at 3scale.net @3scale API London Meetup London, Sept. 22, 2015