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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