discover-portal-apis

name	discover-portal-apis
description	Discover APIs published in an API Experience Hub portal as a portal consumer. Use when an end user needs to browse the catalog, search assets by keyword or filter, open an API's detail page, read its terms and conditions, or fetch rendered documentation pages and resources.

Discover Portal APIs

Overview

As a portal consumer (end user), you need to find the right API and understand what it does before requesting access. This workflow covers the discovery surface of an API Experience Hub (AEH) portal: listing and searching published assets, inspecting a specific asset's metadata, reading its terms of use, and fetching its documentation pages and downloadable resources.

What you'll build: A short list of candidate APIs and the supporting docs you need to decide which one to request access to.

Prerequisites

Before starting, ensure:

1. Authentication ready

   • Valid portal-consumer Bearer token
   • Membership in the portal (see manage-portal-members-and-prospects for the admin flow that grants this)

2. Portal context known

   • targetOrganizationId — the Anypoint organization hosting the portal
   • portalId / targetPortalId — the specific portal you are browsing

Step 1: List Published Assets in the Portal

Start with a broad browse of everything the portal publishes.

What you'll need:

• targetOrganizationId, targetPortalId

api: urn:api:api-experience-hub-consumer
operationId: listAssetsCommunityAsset
inputs:
  targetOrganizationId:
    userProvided: true
    description: Anypoint organization ID hosting the portal
  targetPortalId:
    userProvided: true
    description: Portal ID the user is browsing
outputs:
  - name: assets
    path: $.assets[*]
    labels: $.assets[*].name
    description: Assets published in the portal
  - name: groupId
    path: $.assets[*].groupId
    description: Exchange groupId of an asset, used by detail-level operations
  - name: assetId
    path: $.assets[*].assetId
    description: Exchange assetId of an asset
  - name: minorVersion
    path: $.assets[*].minorVersion
    description: Minor version visible to the consumer

Step 2: Search for Specific Assets

Narrow the list with a keyword, tag, category or asset-type filter.

What you'll need:

• targetOrganizationId, targetPortalId
• Search criteria

api: urn:api:api-experience-hub-consumer
operationId: searchCommunityAssets
inputs:
  targetOrganizationId:
    from:
      variable: targetOrganizationId
    description: Anypoint organization ID hosting the portal
  targetPortalId:
    from:
      variable: targetPortalId
    description: Portal ID the user is browsing
  searchRequest:
    userProvided: true
    description: Search criteria (free-text query, categories, tags, paging)
    example:
      searchTerm: orders
      tags:
        - v2
      limit: 25
      offset: 0
outputs:
  - name: matchingAssets
    path: $.assets[*]
    labels: 
         

Step 3: Open an Asset's Detail Page

Retrieve the full metadata of one asset — summary, description, contact info, classifier, all visible minor versions.

What you'll need:

• targetOrganizationId, targetPortalId
• groupId, assetId, minorVersion chosen from Step 1 or Step 2

api: urn:api:api-experience-hub-consumer
operationId: getAssetDetails
inputs:
  targetOrganizationId:
    from:
      variable: targetOrganizationId
    description: Anypoint organization ID hosting the portal
  targetPortalId:
    from:
      variable: targetPortalId
    description: Portal ID the user is browsing
  groupId:
    from:
      variable: groupId
    description: Exchange groupId of the asset
  assetId:
    from:
      variable: assetId
    description: Exchange assetId of the asset
  minorVersion:
    from:
      variable: minorVersion
    description: Minor version to open

    
     
              

Step 4: Read Terms and Conditions

Before requesting access, consumers should read the terms published for the asset.

What you'll need:

• targetOrganizationId, targetPortalId, groupId, assetId, minorVersion

api: urn:api:api-experience-hub-consumer
operationId: getTermsAndConditions
inputs:
  targetOrganizationId:
    from:
      variable: targetOrganizationId
    description: Anypoint organization ID hosting the portal
  targetPortalId:
    from:
      variable: targetPortalId
    description: Portal ID the user is browsing
  groupId:
    from:
      variable: groupId
    description: Exchange groupId of the asset
  assetId:
    from:
      variable: assetId
    description: Exchange assetId of the asset
  minorVersion:
    from:
      variable: minorVersion
    description: Minor version whose terms  

    
     
           

Step 5: Fetch Documentation Pages

Each asset can publish multiple documentation pages (home, guides, changelog, etc.).

What you'll need:

• targetOrganizationId, targetPortalId, groupId, assetId, minorVersion
• Optional page path (the API uses a wildcard — pass the specific page path to fetch a single page)

api: urn:api:api-experience-hub-consumer
operationId: getAssetPages
inputs:
  targetOrganizationId:
    from:
      variable: targetOrganizationId
    description: Anypoint organization ID hosting the portal
  targetPortalId:
    from:
      variable: targetPortalId
    description: Portal ID the user is browsing
  groupId:
    from:
      variable: groupId
    description: Exchange groupId of the asset
  assetId:
    from:
      variable: assetId
    description: Exchange assetId of the asset
  minorVersion:
    from:
      variable: minorVersion
    description: Minor version to fetch  
  
     
              

    
     
            

Step 6: Fetch Asset Resources (Optional)

Download companion resources (diagrams, sample files, SDK bundles) attached to an asset.

What you'll need:

• targetOrganizationId, targetPortalId, groupId, assetId, minorVersion
• resourceId obtained from the asset-details response in Step 3

api: urn:api:api-experience-hub-consumer
operationId: getAssetResource
inputs:
  targetOrganizationId:
    from:
      variable: targetOrganizationId
    description: Anypoint organization ID hosting the portal
  targetPortalId:
    from:
      variable: targetPortalId
    description: Portal ID the user is browsing
  groupId:
    from:
      variable: groupId
    description: Exchange groupId of the asset
  assetId:
    from:
      variable: assetId
    description: Exchange assetId of the asset
  minorVersion:
    from:
      variable: minorVersion
    description: Minor version to fetch   
  
     
            

    
     
        

Completion Checklist

• Portal catalog browsed or searched
• Candidate asset identified
• Full asset details reviewed
• Terms and conditions read
• Documentation pages consulted
• Companion resources downloaded (if applicable)

What You've Built

✅ Informed API Choice — You have the metadata, terms and docs you need to decide which API to request access to.

Next Steps

1. Request access — See request-api-access to create a contract against the chosen instance and tier.
2. Manage your applications — See manage-portal-applications to create the application identity that will consume the API.

Related Jobs

• request-api-access — Create a contract between your app and the discovered API
• manage-portal-applications — Manage the applications that hold API credentials