Mashery API Documentation

Welcome to the Mashery API Documentation pages.  This section is intended for API Providers that need to understand the capabilities of the Mashery API to integrate with Mashery provided services. 

Use Cases for the Mashery API

The Mashery API is designed to facilitate

• Integration with external tools and existing sites.
• Pulling member and application content for your own reporting needs
• Creating custom workflows
• Migrating existing API programs to Mashery

We Use Our Own API

The practice of using your own product is commonly called eating your own dogfood.  We prefer to think of it as drinking our own champaign.  This documentation was created and hosted in the Mashery portal product.  API key management in this site is done using our own product.

Additionally, we've made a major commitment to our own API in the form of the Mashery Dashboard.  All user management functions in the dashboard are performed using the Mashery API.

Getting Started

1. Read the documentation to familiarize yourself with its capabilities and determine suitability for your project.
2. Determine which Portal member administrator account from your Mashery site you will use to govern API access.
3. Register for your API key for the Mashery API v2 Sandbox environment.
4. Build your application using the sandbox environment.
5. Request a production Mashery API v2 API key.
6. Deploy your application.