# Overview

This is the developer front door to the **[API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com)** 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

| Surface | Where | Best for |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **REST API** | `https://api.apievangelist.com/v1` — [API Reference](/api) | Search, browse, and integrate any resource type |
| **MCP server** | `https://mcp.apievangelist.com/mcp` — [MCP Server](./mcp-server) | AI agents; start with `get_overview` and `guide_topic` |
| **Static feeds** | [Static Feeds](./feeds/index) | Zero-auth JSON files, one per collection — no key, no limits |

## 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](./authentication).

## Start here

- [Getting Started](./getting-started) — runnable curl and JavaScript examples
- [API Reference](/api) — every endpoint, parameter, and response shape
- [MCP Server](./mcp-server) — connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code
- [Static Feeds](./feeds/index) — 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](https://apis.io/developer/)** — this API covers API Evangelist's own research network
and does not duplicate it.