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APIs.io Ratings API

The APIs.io API rating system — a 0–100 composite score, five bands, a trend marker, and six weighted facets measuring how complete, governed, and integration-ready each provider's public API surface is. Rubric v0.3.

APIs.io Ratings API is one of 11 APIs that APIs.io publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Ratings. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, rate-limit docs, a changelog, and 2 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 5 operations across 5 paths, and defines 10 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 0.1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://search-api.apis.io.

5 operations 5 paths 10 schemas 5 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
0.1.0
Base URL
https://apis.io/api/v1
Authentication
API Key
Contact
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

APIs.io Ratings API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as x-api-key (api_key).

Paths & Operations 5

Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 5 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Ratings 5

The APIs.io API rating system — a 0–100 composite score, five bands, a trend marker, and six weighted facets measuring how complete, governed, and integration-ready each provider'…

GET
/providers/{slug}/rating
One provider's rating.
getProviderRating 1 param → 200404
GET
/ratings
Ranked ratings leaderboard.
listRatings 11 params → 200400
GET
/ratings/rubric
The rating rubric.
getRatingRubric → 200400
GET
/providers/{slug}/rating/history
A provider's rating movement.
getRatingHistory 1 param → 200404
GET
/ratings/movers
The biggest rating movers.
findRatingMovers 1 param → 200

Schemas 10

The contract defines 10 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ProviderScore (8 properties), RatingEntry (7 properties), Problem (6 properties), Facets (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Band
string
Rating band derived from the composite score.
Rubric
object
The rating rubric — bands, facet weights, and trend thresholds.
4 properties
RatingList
object
2 properties 2 required
Meta
object
Pagination and echoed-query metadata for collection responses.
5 properties 4 required
RatingEntry
object
A ranked provider in the ratings leaderboard.
7 properties 3 required
Trend
string
Week-over-week movement in composite score (±5 thresholds).
FacetName
string
One of the six rating facets.
Problem
object
A Problem Details object per [RFC 9457](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9457). Served as application/problem+json. Extension members (e.g. parameter) may be…
6 properties 3 required
ProviderScore
object
A provider's rating, rubric v0.3.
8 properties 2 required
Facets
object
The six facet scores, each 0–100.
6 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

apis-io-ratings-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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