# Mashape API Service Provider

**Author:** kinlane  
**Canonical:** https://apievangelist.com/2011/03/04/mashape-api-service-provider/

[Mashape](http://www.mashape.com/ "Mashape") provides tools that enable developers to quickly deliver and consume [APIs](http://www.apievangelist.com) and offers a marketplace for listing APIs to buy and sell.

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

*   [PHP](http://www.mashape.com/guide/ "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](http://json.org "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](http://apievangelist.com/2011/01/30/api-technology-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](http://www.mashape.com/explore/index "Mashape Marketplace"), letting developers to easily discover and begin hacking with your API.

###### Related articles

*   [The END of the DUE DILIGENCE during Seed Investments - Mashape's Voice](http://blog.mashape.com/the-end-of-due-diligence-during-seed-investme) (mashape.com)
*   [If You Build It (an API), They Will Come](http://apievangelist.com/2011/02/28/if-you-build-it-they-will-come/) (apievangelist.com)
*   [Building an E-Commerce App Made Easy With Tinypay.me's New API](http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/03/building-an-e-commerce-app-mad.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4d6d09ac29c16e43%252C0) (readwriteweb.com)