Mashape API Service Provider

by Kin Lane on 03/04/2011

Mashape provides tools that enable developers to quickly deliver and consume APIs and offers a marketplace for listing APIs to buy and sell.

For developers looking to publish any resource as an API, Mashape provides:

PHP and soon Ruby frameworks for extending your software
Tools for testing your API
Code for generation of custom errors
Components for user management
Standardized API code language libraries

For developers looking to consume an API, Mashape provides standardized API libraries in the following languages:

JavaScript / JSON
PHP
Ruby
Obj-C
Java
Python

Mashape provides other informational resources about APIs, including an explanation of why a library approach is good, background on REST, and ideas on what is possible with the platform.

Once your API is ready for prime time Mashape provides a marketplace for listing your API, letting developers to easily discover and begin hacking with your API.