28 European APIs, Mashup the Continent

John Musser, October 30th, 2007

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Out of the over 500 APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, how many are offered by companies based in Europe? With MashupCamp Dublin in a couple weeks, this seems like a good question. In taking a look at the directory there are at least 28 European APIs (that is, companies headquartered or founded in Europe, even though they now be part of a larger, non-European company, like Skype). These APIs come from a variety of countries including the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Luxembourg, Spain, and Russia.

• 23: Photo sharing service. API is Flickr compatible. European team.
• AMEE: Avoiding Mass Extinction Engine. CO2 caclulations. UK.
• AQL: Bulk SMS messaging services. UK.
• Betfair: Online betting exchange. UK.
• BT: Variety of APIs for messaging and voice. UK.
• Clickatell: SMS messaging services. UK.
• eCourier: Delivery services and package tracking. UK.
• Esendex: Business SMS messaging services. UK.
• ImageLoop: Animated slideshow service. Germany.
• iShareMaps: UK postcode geocoder. UK
• Jaiku: Micro-blogging service. Now part of Google. Finland.
• Joost: Online television and video service. Luxembourg.
• Lokad: Online time series forecasting tools. France.
• Multimap: Global online mapping service. UK.
• Nearby.org.uk: Geocoding service. UK.
• Nestoria: UK and Spain real estate listings. UK.
• Netvibes: Personalized home page and widgets. France.
• OddsMiner: Sports betting XML feeds. UK.
• Panoramio: Geo-centric photo service, now owned by Google. Spain.
• Pikeo: Photo sharing service. France.
• Pingdom: Web site monitoring services. Sweden.
• Skype: Messaging platform. Luxembourg.
• Talis: Library 2.0 reference services. UK.
• TheyWorkForYou: Track the UK Parliament. UK.
• TradeSports: Online sports betting exchange. Ireland.
• ViaMichelin: Mapping, directions, and travel booking services. France.
• Vodafone Betavine: Mobile web services. UK.
• Yandex: Russian search engine. Russia.

If anyone is aware of European APIs in our directory but not included above or other non-US APIs we don’t currently catalog please let us know in the comments or with our share an API page.