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Base URL for API

Providing a valid URL to the base for an API that is designed for machines to use when making call to an API by an consumer.

Rules

APIs.json Apis Base URL Error

Each API defined within an APIs.json artifact can specify the base URL for the API. This URL serves as a reference point for developers during onboarding and when making API calls. Additionally, it...

APIs.json Apis BaseURL Info

Each API defined within an APIs.json artifact can specify the base URL for the API. This URL serves as a reference point for developers during onboarding and when making API calls. Additionally, it...

Strategies

APIs Have One Click Access

All APIs possess a URL for humans to follow when engaging as well as the base path URL for machines to use when calling each API, ensuring that the front door for API operations within this domain ...

Experiences

Onboarding

Transitioning from API discovery to integration as a consumer requires a well-defined and streamlined API onboarding process. Onboarding begins with discovery and relies heavily on clear documentat...

Access

Gaining the necessary access to effectively use an API is often more challenging than it appears. Intentional and unintentional barriers can create friction in discovering and onboarding with an AP...

Lifecycle

description Definitions Define

The definition is the contract. OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema, and APIs.json are the machine-readable artifacts I use to describe what an API is before, during, and after it exists. Investing in s...

travel_explore Discovery Production

Discovery is how APIs get found and reused instead of rebuilt. APIs.json, catalogs, and search make the APIs I operate visible to the people who need them. Good discovery is what turns a pile of AP...