US Patent 11307847 Contextual application programming interfaces in a development environment

A computer-implemented process for contextual application programming interfaces in a development environment comprising receiving a user profile data set for use in software development work, formulating a query to locate a set of application programming interface(s) (API(s)) most suited to the software development needs of the software developer; communicating the first query to an API search engine, and receiving a response data set from the API search engine that includes information identifying one or more API(s) most suited to the needs of the software developer.