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Analyzing APIs in Public API Collections

Tim Burks edited this page Oct 7, 2022 · 9 revisions

To explore some of the things that we can do with an API Registry, we look at several publicly-available collections.

The OpenAPI Directory

The OpenAPI Directory is a large collection of OpenAPI descriptions of REST APIs curated by apis.guru. This can reveal patterns and properties of APIs across the industry. To upload these API descriptions, see Uploading OpenAPI Descriptions.

Google APIs

We find descriptions of Google APIs in three places:

  1. Protocol Buffer descriptions published in the googleapis repository on GitHub. To upload these API descriptions, see Uploading Protocol Buffer Descriptions.
  2. The Google API Discovery Service. To upload these API descriptions, see Uploading Google API Discovery Service Descriptions.
  3. A subset of the OpenAPI Directory. To upload these API descriptions, see Uploading OpenAPI Descriptions.