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by Ancapistani 1202 days ago
This sounds silly, but I'm honestly curious: do you offer this information as an API?

On a more serious note, if the purpose is to be able to compare candidate APIs that you're looking at using, here are some features that I think might be helpful:

* Tagging, and filtering based on those tags. Example: "Show me APIs that deal with SMS"

* Select two or more APIs for direct comparison. Example: "Compare Twilio, CleverTap, and Amazon SES"

* Sorting by column heading. Example: "Sort by median response time, descending"

Also, I can't quite get the search to work for me. The term "Paul" returns the top entry ("P J S Paul Ministries API") and one other ("PoGoSnap API") that doesn't include the search term. "Twilio" returns no results, even though there are three entries on the bottom of the first page that start with that string.

2 comments

Author here. Love your ideas! I've thought about tagging - I'd even love to have automated tagging of APIs from routes names etc.. but I'm super excited about sorting and comparison features

This is kind of a side project for us, but I'll definitely think about it

+100 on sorting