

Search

The Developer Portal provides several useful features to build and nurture an active community of users for your APIs. This is required to advertise APIs, learn user requirements, and market trends.

Let's see what community features are available in the Developer Portal:

Use the search facility

You can search for APIs in the API Publisher or Developer Portal in the following ways:

Clause	Syntax
By the API's name	As this is the default option, simply enter the API's name and search.
By the API provider	provider:xxxx . For example, provider:admin Provider is the user who created the API.
By the API version	version:xxxx . For example, version:1.0.0 A version is given to an API at the time it is created.
By the context	context:xxxx. For example, context:/phoneverify Context is the URL context of the API that is specified as /<context_name> at the time the API is created.
By the API's status	status:xxxx . For example, status:PUBLISHED A state is any stage of an API's lifecycle. The default lifecycle stages include created, prototyped, published, deprecated, retired and blocked.
By description	description:xxxx A description can be given to an API at the time it is created or later. There can be APIs without descriptions as this parameter is optional.
By the subcontext	subcontext:xxxx . For example, subcontext:/checkphonenumber. A subcontext is the URL pattern of any resource of the API. API resources are created at the time the API is created or later when it is modified. For example, if you create a resource by the name checkphonenumber, then /checkphonenumber becomes one subcontext of the API.
By the content of the API documentation	doc:xxxx You can create API documentation in-line (using the API Publisher UI itself), by uploading a file or referring to an external URL. This search enables you to give a sentence or word phrase that is inside the in-line documentation and find the API that the documentation is added for.
By tag	tag:xxxx . For example, tag:pizza A tag can be given to an API at the time it is created or later. There can be APIs without tags as this parameter is optional.
By microgateway label	label:xxxx . For example, label:marketing A label is used to group APIs based on the Microgateway distribution. It can be given to an API at the time it is created or later. There can be APIs without labels as this parameter is optional.
By a custom property	property_name:property_value A property can be defined to an API at the time it is created or later. There can be APIs without properties as this parameter is optional.

Top