# The 8 considerations for designing public data APIs

DevFeed: [The 8 considerations for designing public data APIs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-8-considerations-for-designing-public-data-apis-18368.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/8-considerations-for-designing-public-data-apis>)

Author: Jim Moffitt

Published: 2023-05-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [scalable-analytics-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalable-analytics-architecture.md>)

## AI overview

The article presents eight considerations for designing public data APIs and explains how to make those design decisions effectively for developers.

## Source excerpt

Designing a public API? Get one of these 8 decisions wrong and developers will abandon it. Here's how to get them right.