com.apievangelist/api-evangelist

get_overview

START HERE. What the API Evangelist network offers: sixteen years of API research as searchable stories, 77 topic areas, governance building blocks (guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies), papers, conversations, and the consulting services Kin Lane offers teams. Returns counts, entry points, and how to engage.

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guide_topic

Curated guide to one API topic (e.g. "gateways", "api governance", "discovery", "agents"). Bundles the matching topic area (with related areas), top guidance, rules, and policies, relevant papers and recent stories, plus the API Evangelist services that can help a team with this topic.

find_services

The services API Evangelist offers teams and customers — API strategy, governance, discovery, and evangelism engagements by Kin Lane (party=first, the default), or the third-party vendor registry (party=third). First-party results are the front door to working with API Evangelist.

get_service

Full detail for one service offering by slug; include=["content"] inlines the full pitch.

search_api_evangelist

Unified search across the whole network: 5k+ stories, 77 topic areas, 2.5k governance building blocks, papers, conversations, services, and vocabulary. Filter with types (posts, areas, guidance, rules, policies, standards, strategies, schema, properties, experiences, lifecycle, conversations, papers, services, vocabulary).

find_posts

Search or browse 5,100+ API Evangelist stories (2010–present); filter by year or tags.

get_post

One story by slug (YYYY-MM-DD-slug); include=["content"] returns the full markdown body.

find_areas

The 77 focused topic areas of the network (agents, gateways, security, …), each a subsite with its own catalog.

get_area

One topic area with its related-area graph resolved — walk the network from here.

find_building_blocks

Search the governance building blocks by type: guidance (177), rules (617), policies (283), standards (432), strategies (75), schema (11), properties (790), experiences (46), lifecycle (29).

get_building_block

One building block by type + slug; include=["content"] returns the full body.

find_conversations

API Evangelist Conversations — recorded discussions with API practitioners (guest, company, YouTube/SoundCloud links).

get_conversation

One conversation with guest detail and media links; include=["content"] returns the writeup.

find_papers

API Evangelist white papers — deep dives distilled from sixteen years of research, with outlines.

get_paper

One paper with its full outline and purchase/landing URL.

find_vocabulary

The API vocabulary — thousands of resources, actions, personas, domains, schemas, and tags extracted from the API landscape. Filter by category.

get_feeds

The static machine-readable feeds every network site publishes (JSON, APIs.json, zero-auth) — the no-key alternative to this API.

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