55 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon, eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yelp and YouTube

Adam DuVander, November 13th, 2010

This past week 17 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 55 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include AlchemyAPI Keyword and Term Extraction , Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Marketplace Web Service, BatchBook, CitySourced, Dailyplaces, Factual, Google Maps Elevation, Google Places, SEOmoz, Walk Score, WhitePages.com, Yellow Canada and Zappos. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook, Google Earth and Google Maps. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (8 APIs, 14 mashups), Shopping (7 APIs, 8 mashups) and Social (6 APIs, 9 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


21 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon, Bit.ly, Facebook, Foursquare, Wikipedia and YouTube

Adam DuVander, August 7th, 2010

This past week 19 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 21 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Dun and Bradstreet Business Verification, Google Wave, Let’s Be Trends and QuickBase. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook, Twilio and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (5 APIs, 9 mashups), Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups) and Reference (2 APIs, 2 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


31 Different APIs Used in 7 Days: YouTube, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn

John Musser, October 26th, 2009

This past week 16 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 32 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Cloudspeakers, Friendster, Hyves, and Printfection. The most often used APIs this week are Amazon eCommerce, Google Maps, and Twitter. And the most frequently used types of APIs were Shopping (7 APIs, 8 mashups), Social (7 APIs, 9 mashups), and Search (4 APIs, 4 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups.


82 Shopping APIs

Adam DuVander, October 8th, 2009

eBayThough a few shopping APIs are some of the earliest examples we have, their popularity has continued to grow for a simple reason: there’s an obvious revenue model tied to them. When developers use one of the 82 Shopping APIs in our directory, that can mean money in the pocket of the API provider. And, by virtue of various affiliate and revenue-sharing programs tied to many of these APIs, it can also mean money in the pocket of the developer.


28 APIs Used This Week: Open Government, Wikipedia, New York Times, and Football Nerds

John Musser, October 4th, 2009

This past week 16 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 28 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Fantasy Football Nerd, geocubes, Geograph, Maplight, New York Times Campaign Finance, New York Times Congress, Norway Weather, Rezgo, WatchMouse , and WiserEarth. The most often used APIs this week are GeoNames, Google Maps, and WeatherBug. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Government (6 APIs, 6 mashups), Mapping (5 APIs, 10 mashups), and Photos (2 APIs, 2 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


28 Different APIs Used in 7 Days: From The New York Times to TwitterCounter to TwitPic

John Musser, August 2nd, 2009

This past week 18 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 28 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google Email Settings, ikregeer.nl, IP Address Lookup, New York Times Newswire, tr.im, and TwitterCounter. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Last.fm, and Twitter. The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


35 Different APIs Used in 7 Days – From Google to Oodle

John Musser, May 30th, 2009

This past week 22 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 35 different APIs were used to build them. Some interesting or less frequently used APIs that were mashed-up this week include lyrics APIs like Lyricsfly and LyricWiki; lots of e-commerce APIs like Oodle, PriceGrabber, CNET, Yahoo Shopping, Shopping.com, and Shopzilla; messaging and telephony APIs like Skype and Twilio; as well as plenty of Google APIs including Google Translate. The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


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