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About

RapidAPI is the world’s largest API marketplace where over a million developers find and connect to thousands of public APIs, as well as share and collaborate on internal APIs. We're a team of developers, building for developers, based in San Francisco, Tel Aviv and Kiev.

Mission

There are millions of software programs out there and they’re reshaping every aspect of our lives. We believe that they can get exponentially better by sharing data and functionality with each other. APIs are the language that software uses to communicate and connect. That’s why we love APIs.

Founders

Iddo Gino
Iddo Gino is the Founder and CEO of RapidAPI. Part of Forbes 30 Under 30 list, he's a 2017 Thiel Fellow. Previously, he was a Co-organizer of Hacking Gen Y. Iddo has been programming since he was a kid and continues to contribute to open-source projects. Originally from Haifa, Israel, Iddo is based in San Francisco, CA.

Investors

We are proud to work with top Silicon Valley investors.

Logo

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Timeline

We've had quite the ride at RapidAPI so far! Here are the highlights:

Jan 2015
Company FoundedIddo Gino
Mar 2015
First developers on BETA
June 2015
First app built using RapidAPI launches on the App Store
Nov 2015
WWW
First version launched
Jan 2016
#500
Strong
Joined #500 Startups
Apr 2016
US offices launch
July 2016
Ukraine offices launch
Nov 2016
Seed Round with a16z, SV Angels
May 2017
Acquired Mashape API Marketplace
Mar 2018
Series A with a16z, SV Angels
June 2019
Series B with M12, a16z, and Grove

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Installing

To utilize unirest for node.js install the the npm module:

$ npm install unirest

After installing the npm package you can now start simplifying requests like so:

var unirest = require('unirest');

Creating Request

unirest.("https://")
.header("X-RapidAPI-Key", "SIGN-UP-FOR-KEY")
.header("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
.end(function (result) {
  console.log(result.status, result.headers, result.body);
});

Client ID

Client Secret

OAuth2 Authentication