👍 Identifying The Different Types Of APIs

To help me establish a handful of new buckets, I’m thinking more critically about the different types of API functionality I’m coming across, establishing seven new buckets:

• General Data – You can get at data across the platform, users, and resources.
• Relative Data – You can get at data that is relative to a user, company, or specific account.
• Static Data – The data doesn’t change too often, and will always remain fairly constant.
• Evolving Data – The data changes on a regular basis, providing a reason to come back often.
• Historical Data – Provides access to historical data, going back an X number of. years.
• Service – The API is offered as a service, or is provided to extend a specific service.
• Algorithmic – The API provides some sort of algorithmic functionality like ML, or otherwise.