APIRank.dev
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SHOW HN2023
176points
60comments
#335of 3,109 in 2023
Top 11%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
0 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 25 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score -0.55.
Execution: 0 for, 15 againstIdea: 0 for, 8 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Sorting and comparison features are a good idea
From 2 comments
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…
Ancapistani on HN+100 on sorting
bluetidepro on HN
Objections
Search is broken and returns no results for many names
From 4 comments
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…
Ancapistani on HNSpotify is there (twice!): https://apirank.dev/Spotify-Web-API/ https://apirank.dev/Spotify/ The search appears to be broken, because it returns no results for spotify.
lazyasciiart on HNI get a 500 Internal service error
sroussey on HNIt's not fixed unfortunately, I get 500 when I try to search.
redring on HN
Popularity and design scores seem unreliable or wrong
From 3 comments
The performance metric is meaningless. As you yourself acknowledge, this is way too dependent on underlying business logic to be able to compare objectively. A 100ms API response…
paxys on HNInterested project. But I worked on the Xero assets api, and I’m sad to say there was only one user. Maybe things have changed since I left, but I highly doubt it deserves a 4/5…
RileyJames on HNA terribly designed API with a complete and orderly OpenAPI 3.0.0 spec will get 5/5. A well designed API with no OpenAPI support or 3.1.x spec support will get a poor design…
ozten on HN
Security scores via generic scanner are likely false positives
From 2 comments
You've listed a ton of sites as having some security misconfiguration (OWASP A05:2021), but haven't given any further information on how you've made that determination. Given…
runlevel1 on HNThis. As soon as you see "number of vulnerabilities it contains", you know it's bullshit. If it were that easy to spot legitimate bugs, the authors would mostly already have…
Aachen on HN
Ranking mixes unrelated APIs and lacks categories
From 3 comments
What is the utility of comparing Coindesk and Giphy's api's? In order for this to have any use, it seems to me you'd need to at least group the API's by use case/product type.
nyc_data_geek1 on HNThis is very much an apples to oranges comparison. What meaningful insight can be obtained by comparing some of Uber's API endpoints with Instagram's?
maltalex on HN"Ranking" normally implies decisive weight: we rank related things in order to decide between them. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to decide between "P J S Paul Ministries" and…
woodruffw on HN
Many well-known APIs are missing
From 2 comments
This seems to lack tons of APIs , maybe instead of 'apirank' it should be called 'openapi dev rank'. Apple Itunes :…
adamzochowski on HNI think this sort of resource (if including actual use-cases and potential alternatives) could be useful. Right now it shows scores for security, performance, reliability,…
SahAssar on HN
Requests
Add tagging and filtering by use case
From 2 comments
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…
Ancapistani on HNWhat is the utility of comparing Coindesk and Giphy's api's? In order for this to have any use, it seems to me you'd need to at least group the API's by use case/product type.
nyc_data_geek1 on HN
Add sorting and side-by-side comparison
From 2 comments
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…
Ancapistani on HN+100 on sorting
bluetidepro on HN
Show API rate limits and descriptions
From 2 comments
This seems to lack tons of APIs , maybe instead of 'apirank' it should be called 'openapi dev rank'. Apple Itunes :…
adamzochowski on HNIs there a description of what the api does ? I don’t know the vast majority of these names.
phas0ruk on HN
Questions
What is the methodology behind the popularity and performance scores?
From 3 comments
What's the methodology? It's an interesting metric as long as there is some rationale attached.
jiocrag on HNI suspect there is something wrong with the popularity calculation, would like to know more details about how that was done.
lazyasciiart on HNWhen determining the median API response time, is that done from several locations? Not clear if the timing would be due to network or application latency.
jzox on HN
What does the top-ranked christian ministry API actually do?
From 1 comment
I'm confused as to what the current gold medalist, the PJS Paul Ministries API, is...
kylecazar on HN
Alternatives named
Googling for an API name
From 2 comments
Whats the difference between this and simply Googling for <insert keyword> api?
altdataseller on HNBut I don't want to browse APIs. I'm not looking for any generic APIs. I'm looking for a specific API, such as a location API, or an email sending API. If I search for those in…
altdataseller on HN
apis.guru
From 1 comment