Overview

This is the developer front door to the API Evangelist network — sixteen years of API research served as one API and one MCP server: 5,100+ stories, 77 focused topic areas, 2,400+ governance building blocks (guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies, schema, properties, experiences, lifecycle), white papers, conversations, videos, tools, research timelines, services, and the API vocabulary — plus the legacy static JSON feeds that predate the API.

Three ways in

What's inside

• Stories — 5,100+ blog posts since 2010 (/posts)
• Areas — 77 focused topic areas and their related-area graph (/areas)
• Guidance — editorial guidance, browsable by section: history, technology, business, politics, governance, and evangelism (/guidance, /guidance/sections/{section})
• Governance — /policies, /rules
• Toolbox — /standards, /solutions (740+ third-party services), /tools (400+ open-source tools), /schema, /properties
• Operations — /strategies, /experiences, /lifecycle
• Media — /conversations, /videos (transcript-searchable), /papers, /newsletters
• Reference — the API vocabulary (/vocabulary) and the static feed index (/feeds)
• Timelines — the api, resources, industries, and people research timelines (/timelines/{timeline})
• Services — Kin Lane's first-party offerings (/services)
• Contact — every way to reach API Evangelist (/contact)

Everything is read-only GET, and the free tier needs no key — see Authentication.

Start here

• Getting Started — runnable curl and JavaScript examples
• API Reference — every endpoint, parameter, and response shape
• MCP Server — connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code
• Static Feeds — the no-key alternative to the API

Looking for API providers?

The API provider catalog (thousands of companies and their APIs) intentionally lives on APIs.io — this API covers API Evangelist's own research network and does not duplicate it.