The API-mashup ecosystem: a comprehensive study of ProgrammableWeb Online publication date: Wed, 08-Jun-2022
by Xinhua Guo; Hongbo Zhou; Mingdong Tang
International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES), Vol. 15, No. 2, 2022
Abstract: With the increasing number of open APIs on the internet, reusing them to develop value-added new applications has received enormous attention. Mashup is the most popular technique for combining APIs into new applications. Against this background, the API-mashup ecosystem composed of APIs and mashups is emerging. This paper focuses on the API-mashup ecosystem of ProgrammableWeb.com, which is the largest web API portal. Although a few studies have investigated this API-mashup ecosystem, the understandings to it are still limited. In addition, the features of the API-mashup ecosystem may change due to its continuous evolvement. Therefore, this paper reinvestigates the API-mashup ecosystem of ProgrammableWeb by exploiting the latest data. We first conduct a statistical analysis to the current API-mashup ecosystem, and then explore the relationships between APIs or API providers to build cooperation networks of them. Finally, we analyse the derived cooperation networks and uncover some important features.
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