What is your favorite API developer community site? And why? [closed]
- by whatupwilly
There are a lot of great sites out there that offer good documentation, tools, tips, best-practices, sample code, etc. for the API's they are publishing.
A sample:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com
http://developer.netflix.com/
http://developers.facebook.com/
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html
http://code.google.com/
http://remix.bestbuy.com/
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.overview.html
http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/webserviceapi.html
There are some no-brainers that I think a good developer site should have:
Hi level introduction
Quick start guide
API specific details - showing example request and responses
Links to sample code and/or 3rd party libraries
Developer registration (e.g. get an API key)
Blog
But what about some other things:
Online-Forum or Msg Board vs. Google Group (or similar)
Galleries/ShowCases - spotlighting great apps built on the API - who has done nice galleries?
Community Wiki - How do people feel about letting the community have edit rights on API documentation pages
Online testing tools (like Facebook has a lot of nice interactive tools to simulate request/responses)
What are some packages that you would recommend to put this all together:
pbwiki
Google Group pages
MediaWiki
API vendor package such as Sonoa Systems that offers a customizable developer portal
So, to summarize:
What are some other great API developer portals out there
What are some nice features you like on them
Any recommendations on what to use to build these features out
Thanks,
Will
Zappos.com Public API (soon to launch) Product Manager
