The Mashup API, also known as the "Access API", provides a public HTTP interface to access the commands defined in Exalead CloudView's Search API configuration.
The Mashup API provides a standardized way to search and retrieve results from heterogeneous sources, called feeds. You can use independent feeds to retrieve different types of information, or nested feeds to enrich results from a previous feed.
You therefore have two APIs for search in your applications, the Search API and the Mashup API. For more information, see "Appendix - Search API Parameters" in the Exalead CloudView Mashup Programmer's Guide.