# About

# About

This is the developer portal for the [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) 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. Every site renders an HTML browse view, and every site emits a static JSON feed
of the same data.

This portal documents three ways to consume all of that:

- **The [Network API](/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](./authentication).
- **The [MCP server](./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 [static feeds](./feeds/index)** — each collection's JSON file, documented as if it were
  an API, because for the purposes of integration that's exactly what it is. Pick a feed, fetch
  the JSON, parse it, integrate it. No API key, no rate limit, no signup.

## Discovery

The portal publishes an [RFC 9727 API catalog](https://developer.apievangelist.com/.well-known/api-catalog)
at `/.well-known/api-catalog`, cataloging the API, the MCP server, and every static feed as a
machine-readable linkset. The feeds themselves follow the
[APIs.json specification](https://apisjson.org) — the discovery format Kin Lane has been
championing for over a decade.

## Open source

The portal is open source at
[github.com/api-evangelist/developer](https://github.com/api-evangelist/developer). Each
underlying collection lives in its own repo under the
[api-evangelist GitHub organization](https://github.com/api-evangelist), and the API + MCP server
live in [apievangelist-aws](https://github.com/api-evangelist/apievangelist-aws).

## Contact

Questions, issues, or pull requests:
[github.com/api-evangelist/developer/issues](https://github.com/api-evangelist/developer/issues)
or [info@apievangelist.com](mailto:info@apievangelist.com) — the same address to use when
[requesting higher API limits](./authentication).