Overview
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Common features
- API list page
- Browsing and searching (search has keyword highlighted)
- Pagination
- Metadata: categories - a lot and multiselect
- Sorting: category, updated
- Last updated
- Deprecated APIs (which are not included by default)
- API detail page
- Summary: owner, SSL, contact, # follower/devs
- Documentation
- Related APIs
- Add own API
- Maturity
- 15,124 APIs (31/05/16)
- Development
- Sample code - links to articles
- How-to
- Community
- Social media
- Comments
- Followers
- Tracking APIs > watchlist
- Legal
- No info
UI
List is in a tabular view, not in card view Tabbed info in detail view.
Strengths
A lot of content - articles - with APIs linked to them. Mashups. Search works better because there is a lot more metadata.
Weaknesses
No automated filter. When you apply a filter, you need to click the search button (of an empty searchbox, in a different widget). Some bugs (e.g. pagination, you can not remove sorting) How are results sorted by default? Is there a quality algorithm? No strong social aspect (followers data is not in the list) No uptime - quality of the API?
Documentation is horrible. Sample codes and how-to's are simple articles. E.g. The most popular API, first article links to a 2010 Not Found page: http://www.programmableweb.com/api/google-maps/source-code http://www.programmableweb.com/how-to/google-maps-api-javascript-get-local-search-results-google-source-code http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/get_local_search_results_with_google_maps_and_a...
No testing interface, sandbox.
You can not get keys
Inactive community? Comments are pretty old.