When you are operating an API, you are always looking for new ways to be discovered. I study this aspect of operating APIs from the flip-side–how do I find new APIs, and stay in tune with what APIs are to? Historically we find APIs using ProgrammableWeb, Google, and Twitter, but increasingly GitHub is where I find the newest, coolest APIs. I do a lot of searching via GitHub for API related topics, but increasingly GitHub topics themselves are becoming more valuable within search engine indexes, making them an easy way to uncover interesting APIs.
I was profiling the market data API by Alpha Vantage today, and one of the things I always do when I am profiling an API is to conduct a Google and then, secondarily, a GitHub search for the API’s name. Interestingly, I found a list of GitHub Topics while Googling for Alpha Vantage API, uncovering some interesting SDKs, CLIs, and other open source solutions that have been built on top of the financial data API. Showing the importance of operating your API on GitHub, but also working to define a set of standard GitHub Topic tags across all your projects, and helping encourage your API community to use the same set of tags, so that their projects will surface as well. https://goo.gl/hzXcKS #DataIntegration #ML
