RapidAPI Enterprise Hub
Building for the Next-Generation of APIs
APIs are at the heart of digital innovation. But many organizations struggle to use APIs effectively today.
A key challenge is even knowing what APIs exist across the organization, due to organizational silos made worse by disparate infrastructure and tooling across the API development lifecycle. Compounding the issue, many API types are in use beyond REST and SOAP — adoption of GraphQL, Kafka, and gRPC is growing rapidly. APIs also span several categories, with internal, partner, and third-party APIs each bringing different requirements.
Legacy API management vendors do not address modern API requirements and just lock organizations into their technology, restricting expansion and growth. Meeting the needs of today’s diverse API landscape requires a next-generation API platform – RapidAPI Enterprise Hub.
Get to Market Faster with RapidAPI Enterprise Hub
RapidAPI Enterprise Hub is a next-generation API platform that enables enterprises to accelerate innovation and bring software to market faster with one place to find, govern, and collaborate on all APIs. RapidAPI is the world’s leading API platform and is used by millions of developers to publish and consume tens of thousands of APIs.
RapidAPI Enterprise Hub enables you to:
- Centrally expose all APIs in your organization for consumption and collaboration
- Unify visibility and control across all APIs in the organization
- Connect disparate API infrastructure including multiple API gateways and/or management systems
- Create a single platform for all API categories – internal APIs, partner APIs, and third-party APIs
- Support any API type including REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Kafka, and more
- Empower developers with tools to monitor and manage their API usage
- Optimize developer experience across the entire development lifecycle with native integrations to RapidAPI Client and RapidAPI Testing
Use Case: Internal API Hub
RapidAPI Enterprise Hub provides a customizable API hub where development teams can discover and collaborate on hundreds of APIs – both internal APIs and third-party APIs. RapidAPI is the world’s largest API platform, and RapidAPI Enterprise Hub offers a leading experience for API consumers that improves API discoverability and increases API use / reuse.
RapidAPI Enterprise Hub enables you to:
- Offer an internal API hub and optimized developer experience for collaboration on internal APIs and third-party API subscriptions
- Deliver governance capabilities that enable you to monitor and manage API consumption with enhanced visibility and control
- Create a single platform for all APIs – any API type, any API category, and across any API infrastructure including multiple API gateways
Use Case: Partner API Hub
RapidAPI Enterprise Hub enables organizations to share and collaborate on APIs with partners and manage access control. Partner API hubs can be customized to match organizations’ brand requirements, and governed to set permissions at the partner, team, and developer level. RapidAPI is the world’s largest API platform, and RapidAPI Enterprise Hub offers a leading experience for API consumers that improves partner developer efficiency and accelerates partner onboarding times.
RapidAPI Enterprise Hub enables you to:
- Offer a partner API hub for sharing and collaborating on APIs with partners
- Granularly control partner access to APIs to ensure data privacy and security
- Empower partner developers with tools to monitor and analyze their API usage
Create a Single Platform for All APIs
API environments have evolved and become more complex and diverse than ever. RapidAPI Enterprise Hub is a next-generation API platform built to address the requirements of modern software development. RapidAPI Enterprise Hub provides organizations with a single place for all APIs, including any API type, any API category, and across any API infrastructure.
Using a variety of API types such as REST and SOAP in addition to emerging protocols like GraphQL and Kafka helps break down coding and development silos. Supporting internal APIs as well as partner and third-party APIs expands the impact of the platform. And creating an abstraction layer above multiple API gateways unifies visibility and control across all APIs.
RapidAPI can programmatically communicate with all your API gateways, enabling you to centrally catalog, analyze, and provision all your organization’s APIs. After creating an integration service to communicate with your gateways’ admin APIs, RapidAPI can pull updates into the hub via the Platform API, and push updates to the integration service via Events (webhooks).
Key Features
Discovery
Discovery
- Deep Search – full text search across API name, description, API provider username
- Search filtering by categories, tags and metadata
- Search for endpoint by name within API documentation
- API Collections – Custom pages of APIs grouped by publishing team or use-case
- Homepage with previews from multiple API Collections
- Analysis of APIs based on performance metrics and popularity
- Discussion forums to facilitate collaboration between developers using an API
- Testing/Evaluation – view documentation and test APIs easily in browser
- API Mocking
Integration
- A view of all API endpoints & their parameters
- Add third-party API subscriptions from the public RapidAPI Hub to your RapidAPI Enterprise Hub
- Single application key for all APIs
- Comprehensive support for OpenAPI spec including schema details and examples for requests and responses
- Support for code snippets to easily embed API connection into application: C, C#, Go, Java, Javascript, Node.js, Objective-C, OCaml, PHP, Powershell, Python, RapidQL, Ruby, Shell, Swift
- Platform API to programmatically integrate with multiple third-party API gateways
- RapidAPI Lightweight API Gateway for simple proxying use cases
API Management
- Developer dashboard for analytics and quick insights across all APIs consumed by team
- Charts for daily active users, new users, and total users, and total users over selected time periods
- Analytics (requests, errors, latency, group by individual applications) per API or per API endpoint
- Access control – open access, by subscription, requested access, invitation from provider
Development
- OpenAPI specification upload/import
- Postman Collection import
- HTTP client – visual editor and HTTP toolset
- Team Collection & Collaboration
- A set of extensions with the ability to add your own
- Support for multiple API environments
Publishing
- Dev experience features: spotlight on collections page, tutorials/FAQs per API
- Comprehensive Open API Spec support (2.0 and 3.0)
- CI/CD integration
- Support for all API Types: REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Kafka, Webhooks, WebSocket APIs [coming soon], gRPC APIs [coming soon]
- Simple UI to define API
- API authentication (per application and additional authentication capabilities)
Billing & Monetization
- Manage billing information and API subscription and consumption data
- Plans that can be defined as free, freemium, or paid (with quotas and hard/soft limits)
- Monthly subscription or pay-per-use plans
- Private plans that are available by invite only
- Automatic charging and payment processing out of the box
- Enforcement of DocuSign esignature for contracts
Monitoring & Analytics
- Dashboard for analytics and quick insight across all APIs consumed by the team
- Analytics (requests, errors, latency) grouped by individual applications per API and API endpoint
- Ability to filter analytics by API and API endpoints
- Access to granular API logs for easier debugging
- Set up alerts for API anomalies
Management & Control
- Role-based access controls and federated identity
- Track, analyze and secure API access, publishing, and provisioning
- Configure API as public, private or semi-private
- Grant API editing, viewing, and access privileges by team
- View API usage
- Define approval processes for publishing APIs and consuming APIs
- Provide API key per user application
- View audit trails across all team and organization activity
- API Versioning
- Block or unblock specific users from API access
- Invite specific users to private plans
- Create plans restricting access to specific endpoints
- Users – self-service onboarding, Single Sign On (SSO) integration and user provisioning via UI CSV import, GitHub import, AD integration, SCIM API
- Transform API requests/responses, authenticate, and rate limit with the RapidAPI Lightweight API Gateway
Security
- Integrate to any 3rd party identity provider (IdP) to support authentication with any identity layer including OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and SAML
- TLS
- Certificate Management
- Schema validation
- Gateway Secret Key
- Fraud detection through third-party provider
- Threat Protection
- Rate Limiting
- Two factor authentication (2FA)
- API key rotation
Customization
- Customizable hub experience
- Theming – fully customizable UI including logo, style, images, messaging, colors, fonts, login methods, and layouts
- Extend system through API integrations and plugins
- Dark mode option
- Custom Collections
