How AI is applied across API Evangelist and APIs.io. Read my AI disclosure →
API Evangelist API Evangelist
Discovery
Learnings
Guidance
Toolbox
Alignment
API Evangelist LLC

How do I get my company removed from the catalog?

butterfly About API Evangelist Updated August 12, 2026

Short answer

Ask, and it happens. The default outcome keeps a name, a description and a link to your own site, with no rating and no artifacts — and there is a permanent registry that stops you being re-added.

Ask and it gets done. You do not need to justify it.

The default posture is what I call restricted: your entry keeps a name, a short description, and a link to your own site, and carries no rating, no artifacts, and no derived analysis. That leaves the record honest — the company exists and here is where to find it — without the catalog holding or publishing anything about your API surface.

Full removal is also available if that is what you want.

Either way, the delisting goes into a permanent do-not-list registry that every pipeline consults, so an automated harvest cannot quietly re-add you six months later. That registry is the part that actually matters; a one-time deletion without it is not a removal, it is a delay.

Existing artifacts, index membership, ratings and generated pages get stripped as part of the same process rather than left behind in a rollup somewhere.

Go deeper in the guidance

This answer is distilled from the API Evangelist guidance catalog — the long-form treatment of each topic, with its own citations back into sixteen years of writing.