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Swagger 2.0 API models supplied by APIs Guru: https://github.com/APIs-guru/api-models

Any feedback appreciated!

Just google Web Services .. anything useful?

There's a lot of Google in there since they publish machine-readable definitions for all their APIs. We'll probably weed some of them out either via likes or manual removal.

Two of my favorites are Bitdango [1] and Getty Images [2]. Bitdango has live exchange rates for currencies, including virtual currencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin. Getty lets you find high-quality stock photos and has search parameters to select everything from the number of people to the artistic style of the photo

[1] https://any-api.com/consoles/bitdango.com/1.0.0/ [2] https://any-api.com/consoles/gettyimages.com/3.0/

Can we stop saying 'API' to talk about Web service?

API is more generic than that. It is the abstraction describing software components and operations. Any good library should have a good API.

Except the term "web service" is just as overloaded as "API" - its got the very specific old school meaning of a SOAP/WSDL API which typically isn't exposed as a service on the web :(

What about "REST API"?

Alas, that seems to have also been reduced to simply meaning "JSON over HTTP", instead of taking advantage of Hypermedia, but there is hope with more articles, such as http://www.infoq.com/articles/programming-semantic-profiles, being written.

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