RESTful Services
Representational State Transfer (REST) services are web services built using the REST architectural style, which uses stateless HTTP communication and standard HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH) to expose resources. RESTful services are the dominant pattern for modern public APIs and microservices. This index covers the REST architectural style, key design principles, tooling ecosystem, and notable frameworks for building REST services across all technology stacks.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles RESTful Services the way a machine reads it — 14 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — RESTful Services scores 36.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile RESTful Services
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for RESTful Services. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 5
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Standards.REST
A curated collection of standards, conventions, and best practices for building RESTful APIs, including HAL, JSON:API, Siren, Collection+JSON, and HATEOAS patterns.
Zalando RESTful API and Event Guidelines
Zalando's comprehensive and widely-adopted RESTful API design guidelines, covering naming conventions, HTTP methods, versioning, error handling, pagination, and hypermedia.
Microsoft Azure REST API Guidelines
Microsoft's official REST API design guidelines for Azure services, covering resource naming, versioning, HTTP semantics, long-running operations, and error responses.
AWS API Gateway
Amazon Web Services fully managed service for creating, publishing, maintaining, monitoring, and securing REST APIs at any scale.
Google Apigee API Management
Google Cloud's API management platform for building, managing, and securing RESTful APIs. Provides analytics, developer portal, rate limiting, and policy management.
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Restful Services Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Restful Services Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Restful Services Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
RESTful Services API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
REST Error Response
JSON SCHEMAREST Resource
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Restful Services Resource Structure
JSON STRUCTURESecurity Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for RESTful Services — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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