API Knowledge
This is an open toolbox of API knowledge that runs on GitHub, providing a single resource to use when seeking knowledge of the API sector.
API Blogs and and News Sites
The relevant API industry blog and news sites to find information.
Nordic APIsWe’re an international community of API practitioners and enthusiasts. Our mission is to help organizations make smarter tech decisions using APIs. We do this through knowledge and information sharing via our blog and events. Nordic APIs was formed to help businesses become more innovative, lean, and efficient.
Resources: Blog, News, Events, eBooks
ProgrammableWebAs the world's leading source of news and information about Internet-based application programming interfaces (APIs), ProgrammableWeb.com is known as the Web's defacto journal of the API economy. Since it was founded in 2005, ProgrammableWeb has been chronicling the daily evolution of the global API economy while amassing the Web's most relied-on directory when it comes to discovering and searching for APIs to use in Web and mobile applications.
Resources: Blog, News, Discovery, Tutorials
API EvangelistAPI Evangelist is a site dedicated to the technology, business, and politics of APIs. Beginning as a research site studying many different types of APIs, and then evolving towards developing an understanding of the common building blocks API providers are using across the API lifecycle. You can find research across 100 stops along the API lifecycle below, as well as the ability to browse for APIs, and access other resources like industry guides, blueprints, landscape analysis, as well as a regular storytelling from across the API sector.
Resources: Blog, Research
APIs You Won't HateAPI development is a topic very close to Phil's heart. APIs You Won't Hate started out as a book, with Phil pouring everything API related he knew, all the problems he faced, all the design decisions he wish he thought about earlier. Since the book, Phil has continued to learn and grow, thanks to new experiences, and new conversations with really smart people. Learning never stops, and the Slack channel that grew from the book subscribers and their friends has become home to the largest API chat group on the internet.
Resources: Blog, Jobs, Podcasts, Videos
APISceneAn aggregate API news and information site, providing a source of API resources from across the sector. Going beyond just the news and providing research, events, and other resources for the API industry to put to work.
Resources: Blog, News, Research
API HandymanHi! I’m Arnaud Lauret, the API Handyman and author of The Design of Web APIs. I like to share what I do, struggle with, learn, and teach while working in the API space. I have been working in the financial industry for 18 years and my job was always around connecting pieces of software together, hence creating and using web services or APIs. My current daily job is helping people, from executive to developers and everything in between, to understand what are APIs, why they matters and how to do them. I also help dozens of different teams to design their APIs by reviewing and challenging their designs, training them to design API and also building API design guidelines.
Resources: Blog, Design
EveryDeveloperEveryDeveloper works with the best dev tool companies to educate and inspire developers. We create strategic content that shares knowledge, not features. Show developers something useful and you will reach more of them.
Resources: Blog, Developer Experience
APIFriendsAPI Friends is a fast-growing community of people with all levels of API experience – from novice to ninja. Here you can find business leaders, digital strategists and solution architects sharing their API knowledge, talking about API news and explaining basic or complex API concepts. Join the conversation!
Resources: Blog, News, Research
DZoneProgramming, Web Development, and DevOps news, tutorials and tools for beginners to experts. Hundreds of free publications, over 1M members, totally free.
Resources: Blog, News, Tutorials
Dev.todev.to (or just DEV) is hosted by Forem. It is a community of software developers who write articles, take part in discussions, and build their professional profiles. We value supportive and constructive dialogue in the pursuit of great code and career growth for all members.
Resources: Blog, News, Podcasts, Videos
Hacker NoonHacker Noon is built for technologists to read, write, and publish. We are an open and international community of 15k+ contributing writers publishing stories and expertise for 3M+ curious and insightful monthly readers.
Resources: Blog, News
APIsecurity.ioAPISecurity.io is a community website for all things related to API security. Our daily news and weekly API Security newsletter cover the latest breaches, vulnerabilities, standards, best practices, regulations, and technology.
Resources: Blog, News, Security
API TrackerThe API Tracker aggregates +14,000 SaaS products, SDKs, APIs, and DX profiles. It aims to help developers access the information they need to integrate APIs faster.
Resources: Blog, News, Discovery
API StackA collection of +100 tools and resources to build APIs.
Resources: Blog, News, Discovery
The Postman Blog
You can stay in tune with the Postman community via the Postman blog.
API Catalogs, Directories, Networks, and Discovery
Places where you can actually find APIs that you can use.
ProgrammableWebAs the world's leading source of news and information about Internet-based application programming interfaces (APIs), ProgrammableWeb.com is known as the Web's defacto journal of the API economy. Since it was founded in 2005, ProgrammableWeb has been chronicling the daily evolution of the global API economy while amassing the Web's most relied-on directory when it comes to discovering and searching for APIs to use in Web and mobile applications.
Resources: Blog, News, Discovery, Tutorials
Postman API NetworkThe Postman API Network provides a central place for both API consumers and API producers to easily discover, explore, and share APIs. The Postman API Network has two parts, a public network and a private network. The Postman Public API Network is open to the entire API community, while the Postman Private API Network is for your team only.
Resources: Discovery
RapidAPIThere are millions of software programs out there and they’re reshaping every aspect of our lives. We believe that they can get exponentially better by sharing data and functionality with each other. APIs are the language that software uses to communicate and connect. RapidAPI is the world’s largest API marketplace. RapidAPI lets you manage all your API integrations from one place and gives you real-time performance metrics.
Resources: Discovery
SmartAPIThe SmartAPI project aims to maximize the FAIRness (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) of web-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Rich metadata is essential to properly describe your API so that it becomes discoverable, connected, and reusable. We have developed a openAPI-based specification for defining the key API metadata elements and value sets. SmartAPI's leverage the Open API specification v3 and JSON-LD for providing semantically annotated JSON content that can be treated as Linked Data.
Resources: Discovery
AnyAPIDocumentation and Test Consoles for Over 1400 Public APIs
Resources: Discovery
API TrackerThe API Tracker aggregates +14,000 SaaS products, SDKs, APIs, and DX profiles. It aims to help developers access the information they need to integrate APIs faster.
Resources: Blog, News, Discovery
APIs.guruOur goal is to create a machine-readable Wikipedia for REST APIs with the following principals, open source, community driven project, only publicly available APIs (free or paid), anyone can add or change an API, not only API owners, and all data can be accessed through a REST API.
Resources: Discovery
API StackA collection of +100 tools and resources to build APIs.
Resources: Blog, News, Discovery
API.expertAPI.expert was launched by APImetrics with the goal of allowing all stakeholders to have a clear understanding of how their APIs are performing.
Resources: News, Discovery
ChenosisChenosis is a cross-industry API Marketplace that enables developers, entrepreneurs and businesses to come together to create, discover and subscribe to the fastest growing library of open APIs.
Resources: Discovery, Africa
Product HuntA Product Hunt search for APIs produces a pretty good way to discover new APIs--you can adjust the sort order by most upvoted, trending, or by date to show the newest.
Resources: Discovery
The Postman API Network
You can browse and search for collection via the Postman network.
API Newsletters
The API newsletters available out there.
API Developer Weekly NewsletterThe API Developer Weekly is a weekly newsletter hyper-focused on the business, design, development, and deployment of APIs for web and mobile apps. API Developer Weekly NewsletterThe newsletter is hand-curated and designed to keep you updated on the latest news, product releases, and trends in API business, practices, and related technologies.
Resources: Newsletter
Net API NotesThere is no end to the rolling online debate over API best practices, microservices, and expectations. Let me save you time and effort by highlighting only the essential API information needed to succeed in a succinct, weekly digest - delivered directly to your inbox!
Resources: Newsletter
API Lifecycle
A modular approach for defining what the API lifecycle can be, providing us with a standardized way to have a conversation around the API lifecycle.
API Podcasts
Some of the API podcasts that you should be tuning into.
APIs You Won't HateAPI development is a topic very close to Phil's heart. APIs You Won't Hate started out as a book, with Phil pouring everything API related he knew, all the problems he faced, all the design decisions he wish he thought about earlier. Since the book, Phil has continued to learn and grow, thanks to new experiences, and new conversations with really smart people. Learning never stops, and the Slack channel that grew from the book subscribers and their friends has become home to the largest API chat group on the internet.
Resources: Blog, Jobs, Podcasts, Videos
Dev.todev.to (or just DEV) is hosted by Forem. It is a community of software developers who write articles, take part in discussions, and build their professional profiles. We value supportive and constructive dialogue in the pursuit of great code and career growth for all members.
Resources: Blog, News, Podcasts, Videos
Breaking ChangesBreaking Changes is a weekly talk show where Postman Chief Evangelist Kin Lane hosts stellar guests from all across the API universe to discuss, debate, and solve the latest topics around APIs and API-first.
Resources: Podcasts
API The Docs PodcastOur guests talk about their insights and experience as documentarians. We bring advice from behind open and closed developer portals, ideas on what new learnings you can aim for, and recent experiments from the field of API documentation.
Resources: Podcasts
Console DevToolsDiscussing the most interesting developer tools from the weekly Console newsletter, a free email digest of the best tools and beta releases for developers.
Resources: Podcasts
API IntersectionIn the API Intersection, you’ll learn from experienced API practitioners who transformed their organizations and get tangible advice to build quality APIs with collaborative API-first design.
Resources: Podcasts
APIs Over IPAsA podcast about how to build an API-first business from Moseif the API analytics company, providing regular interviews with interesting individuals from across the API space.
Resources: Podcasts
Coding Over CocktailsCoding Over Cocktails is created by TORO Cloud, a company that offers a low-code, API centric platform for application development & integration.
Resources: Podcasts
API StorytellingA place for telling stories about storytelling, using APIs as a muse, working our way through different guests, topics, and views of why storytelling matters.
Resources: Podcasts
Wikipedia
You can learn more about what an API is from Wikipedia.
API Reports
Some of the interesting reports available from the API sector.
Postman State of the API ReportThe annual State of the API survey is the largest and most comprehensive survey of the API industry. Every year, Postman surveys industry members to get a picture of the API industry—to understand who is working with APIs, how they are getting their work done, and where they see the industry going. More than 13,500 developers, testers, executives, and others took our 2020 survey and provided insights on everything from how they spend their time to what they see as the biggest issues and opportunities for APIs.
Resources: Reports
SmartBear State of the API ReportIdentify the latest benchmarks and gain insight into where the API industry is headed. We look at the latest methodologies, practices, and tools used by software teams across the world. Answers came from over 1,500 API practitioners and customers, with respondents that hail from a wide array of industries.
Resources: Reports
Cloud Elements State of the API Integration ReportUsing data to make decisions is more important now than ever. In our fourth annual State of API Integration report, we collected responses from 380+ API enthusiasts across 28 industries to determine where API integration is trending in 2020.
Resources: Reports
Akamai State of the Internet / Security reportAll three of our stories in this issue of the State of the Internet / Security report are about things most organizations aren’t examining. Whether the cause is that organizations don’t perceive some issues as important to their environment, if they don’t have tooling to monitor these issues, or if the resources to monitor this traffic are not available, this traffic is often being overlooked.
Resources: Reports
API Evangelist
Learn more about the technology, business, and politics of APIs at API Evangelist.
Developer Communities
A handful of places where developers hang out and talk about APIs.
API Specification Toolbox
A toolbox of API specifications, extensions, standards, services, tools, and other resources..
API Events
Conferences, Events, and Meetups for the API sector.
Nordic APIsWe’re an international community of API practitioners and enthusiasts. Our mission is to help organizations make smarter tech decisions using APIs. We do this through knowledge and information sharing via our blog and events. Nordic APIs was formed to help businesses become more innovative, lean, and efficient.
Resources: Blog, News, Events, eBooks
NetAPI.EventsThe Latest Upcoming, In-Person API Events. Events are culled from Twitter hearsay, select Meetup.com groups, and/or directly from kind individuals looking to grow their community. Have something not listed here? Submit an event!
Resources: Events, Conferences, Meetups
Postman Open Technologies
Postman's official program for investing in API specifications, standards, tooling, and data.
API Careers
Posting about finding a job or career path that is API related.
API CareersA website dedicated to sharing API specifi jobs that are available across the sector, providing a single place where API providers and service providerrs can publish their jobs, and find the top tier API talent.
Resources: Careers, Jobs, Postings
About this API Knowledge Toolbox
This site is meant to aggregate some of the common sources of information for the API sector, providing a single place where you can find out what is going on.