The Architecture Behind 10,000 API Providers
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After 16 years and 10,000 GitHub repositories, the API Evangelist catalog has become a machine-readable index of the global API economy. Each repo holds an apis.yml file following the APIs.json standard, capturing OpenAPI specs, pricing, rate limits, and vocabularies for providers ranging from AWS to obscure government agencies. The architecture turns a personal blog into queryable infrastructure for API discovery and governance.
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