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nextpaco
Cool!
anonfunction
Glad you like it! I'm writing a blog post detailing how I made it which should be done soon. It's built with mongodb and nodejs, JavaScript FTW :)
[dead] kolmax
How does it work
midhem
The war of API directories has just begun.
mordue
Yep. I'm sure you've seen http://www.apihub.com/ which actually has a lot more details and information and api tools with raml built in to visualize and try out the api (e.g. Here's Stripe http://www.apihub.com/stripe/api/stripe-api/docs/raml).

Full disclosure - I work at MuleSoft, the company responsible for ApiHub.

culo
oh yes, the latest copy-cat of http://mashape.com
emmelaich
I hit a api at random (currency converter) and ended up at mashape.

Just FYI -- I'd never heard of it before.

nadiac
Now Google is not the only one place to look for public APIs.
reganrob
This is great. Is there a way you could categorize the APIs so searches can be filtered? I imagine this a common machine learning classification problem. Maybe check out http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
anonfunction
Absolutely, I have a simple tag solution in the works.
[dead] atypical
Very awesome. Great resource!
michaels12
Great! A bit off topic, but how do you get instant searching on the website as you type? (I'm a amateur programmer).
anonfunction
I use jQuery to send an AJAX request to nodejs which then queries elasticsearch and returns the rendered html which I switch out the DOM with.
wololo_
You should have array caching for the responses coded!
rmason
Love the idea but I have two suggestions: let people filter by country and let them vote or star a particular API.
novaleaf
not sure about needing to filter by country? but voting, and meta tagging too... +++
awaghadashish
country could make sense too. not all APIs are generic. I would love to find out what APIs are specifically available in my country.
feedr
The are a number of API's (on Mashape) that even if in public mode are still beta stuff (like mine :-)) there should be a way at least for mashapers to signify that in the api admin panel, in order to avoid any potential confusion. That said, THANK YOU from this marketing effort.
klapinat0r
What is the definition of public here?

Is public/private a matter of authentication, or authorization ? (e.g. trackable or paying)

Or is it suppose to be "private api is for internal use in a company" v. "public api is for external usage"?

  curl "https://joss-open-exchange-rates.p.mashape.com/latest.json"
  {"message":"Invalid Mashape key. If you are a Mashape user, get your key from your dashboard at https://www.mashape.com/login - To create a free Mashape account instead, go to https://www.mashape.com/signup"}
coleca
Site seems down (Nginx bad gateway error)