About

This is the developer portal for the API Evangelist network — the family of sites maintained by Kin Lane covering the technology, business, politics, and people of APIs.

What this portal provides

API Evangelist has long published its research across a set of focused sites, each one dedicated to one dimension of API operations: APIs themselves, plus companies, policies, rules, properties, schema, standards, strategies, guidance, conversations, experiences, partners, utilities, videos, and vocabularies.

This portal documents two ways to consume all of that:

• The Network API — https://api.apievangelist.com/v1, one REST API over the whole network with unified search, topic areas, and every collection as a resource. Keyless free tier; see Authentication.
• The MCP server — https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp, the same research exposed as Model Context Protocol tools for AI agents, including the get_overview and guide_topic concierge tools.
• The Governance & Discovery API — the API Commons governance tools as a hosted service: lint, score, test and fix API descriptions and the rules that govern them, on the same API and as MCP tools.

Discovery

The portal publishes an RFC 9727 API catalog at /.well-known/api-catalog, cataloging the API and the MCP server as a machine-readable linkset.

Open source

The portal is open source at github.com/api-evangelist/developer, including both OpenAPI contracts. Each underlying collection lives in its own repo under the api-evangelist GitHub organization. The API and MCP server implementation is not public; the contracts are the interface.

Contact

Questions, issues, or pull requests: github.com/api-evangelist/developer/issues or [email protected] — the same address to use when requesting higher API limits.