API Evangelist Providers (api-evangelist-providers)

An alphabetical listing of every provider tracked across the API Evangelist network.

URL: Visit APIs.json URL

Scope

• Type: Providers
• Position: Consuming
• Access: 3rd-Party

Tags

• Providers

Timestamps

• Created: 2024-10-14
• Modified: 2026-06-03

Listing

The site is a static, alphabetically-grouped index (A–Z plus 0-9) of all provider repositories under all/*. There are no detail pages — each provider links out to:

• its APIs.io provider page (https://providers.apis.io/providers/<slug>/) when the provider has an API listed (i.e. it appears in api-search/providers/_providers/), or
• its GitHub repository (https://github.com/api-evangelist/<slug>) otherwise.

The listing data is generated into _data/companies.json by scripts/build-listing.py, which scans all/* (provider repos) and api-search/providers/_providers/* (provider listings). Re-run it to refresh the index:

python3 scripts/build-listing.py

This site is static — there is no API backend. The listing is generated at build time from local repositories and deployed as plain HTML + a static apis.json feed.

Editing _data/ — read this first

Jekyll does not parse _data/*.json with a JSON parser. It hands them to SafeYAML → Psych, and YAML is stricter than JSON: it accepts \uXXXX only for the Basic Multilingual Plane and rejects the surrogate-pair escapes JSON uses for anything above U+FFFF. A file can be perfectly valid JSON and still kill the entire Pages build before one page renders — which is what a single emoji in one provider description, written by a bare json.dump, did on 2026-08-11.

So: anything that rewrites a file under _data/ must go through dump_json() in scripts/build-listing.py, which desurrogates and writes ensure_ascii=False. Never a bare json.dump (its default ensure_ascii=True is the trap).

Two guards enforce this:

ruby scripts/check-data.rb        # parse every data file the way Pages will
git config core.hooksPath .githooks   # run that check automatically pre-commit

The second line is required once per clone — core.hooksPath lives in .git/config and is not versioned. .github/workflows/validate-data.yml is the backstop if it was never run; it reports in ~1 minute instead of the ~25 the Pages build takes to tell you.

Properties

• GitHubRepository
• Documentation

Common Properties

• GitHubOrganization

Maintainers

FN: Kin Lane

Email: info@apievangelist.com