APIs.io

APIs.io is an experimental API Search service to help discover APIs on the web.

The service uses the APIs.json proposed discovery format. To find APIs type in the box.

To get listed follow the instructions in the FAQ and get and give us feedback!

Stack

This project is build using Meteor. Meteor is a framework to build web and mobile apps in pure Javascript.

Install your own locally

1. Install Meteor as described here
2. Clone repo locally git clone git@github.com:apisio/apis.io.git
3. Rename settings_tpl.json into settings.json and change placeholders values with your own
4. Launch meteor meteor --settings settings.json
5. Go to http://localhost:3000/apis/add and submit the sample data from API Evangelist with URL http://localhost:3000/samples/evangelist/apis.json

You will now have one API listed from one Maintainer.

Starting your own API Search service as a Docker container (on Linux)

1. Build the Docker image with

    docker build -t apisio .
   

2. Start a mongo database with

    docker run --rm -p "27017:27017" mongo
   

3. Start the apisio image with

    docker run --rm -it -e "METEOR_SETTINGS=$(cat settings.json)" -e "MONGO_URL=mongodb://172.17.0.1:27017/test" -p 8080:8080 apisio
   

Starting your own API Search service with Docker compose

This is much easier, because building and starting the apisio image is done automatically as well as connecting it to a mongo database.

Just check the METEOR_SETTINGS variable in the docker-compose. It should contain the same info as to be found in settings.json.

    docker-compose up

Simply run docker-compose up --build, wait some time and go to http://localhost:8080. The docker-compose

Deploy

To deploy your own version of APIs.io is very easy, they are several platform to host Meteor apps.

On Scalingo

Scalingo is a new Heroku-like service coming from Europe, really easy to use and free up to 3 apps.

1. Create an account on Scalingo.
2. Install scalingo command line tool link
3. Login in your scalingo account with the CLI scalingo login
4. Create a new app scalingo create NAME_OF_MY_APP This will create a new app on Scalingo and add a new remote on your git repo.
5. Meteor needs a MongoDB instance, add it to your scalingo app scalingo -a NAME_OF_MY_APP addons-add scalingo-mongodb free
6. Deploy your app with git push scalingo master, your app should now be available at NAME_OF_MY_APP.scalingo.com

On Modulus

coming

Anywhere

Check tutorials on how to deploy Meteor apps anywhere with tools like demeteorizer

Understanding Collections

This project uses 3 Meteor collections:

• APIFiles, to store all info from an apis.json file
• APIs, to store individual APIs described in an APIFile
• Maintainers, to store info about Maintainers

APIs.io's API

APIs.io has it own API and the documentation could be found here this let you search for APIs, submit a new APIs.json file and get info about maintainers.

The API is monitored using 3scale API management platform, you are free to use another solution to monitor activity.

Code for the API could be found under /server/api

Contribute

• Interested by discussions around APIs.json spec?

  • Contribute to the google group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/apisjson
  • Make pull request to the repo https://github.com/api-commons/api-json

• Interested by contributing to APIs.io project?

  • Submit issues https://github.com/apisio/apis.io/issues
  • Fork it and make pull request :)