Mashape

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.

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