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APIs Development Tools

Welcome to the world of APIs tools development collection. An ongoing collection of awesome resources, tools, learning tutorials, libraries, webcasts for design and implement RESTful API's. This is starting point for you to know the options available to write your class-A grade of API. These are delightful list of resources and good tools that are available out there in the ecosystem.

What Are APIs?

API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface, which is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. Each time you use an app like Facebook, send an instant message, or check the weather on your phone, you’re using an API.

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API Specification Languages

API Specification Tools

  • Swagger Inspector: Test and auto-generate OpenAPI documentation for any API.
  • Swagger Editor: An editor for designing Swagger specifications.
  • Swagger Tools and Integrations: A list of libraries and frameworks serving the Swagger ecosystem.
  • OpenAPI Spec Tooling: A list of libraries and frameworks serving the OpenAPI ecosystem.
  • API Studio. Write, mock, and share your Swagger specifications online.
  • Dredd: Validate API documentation written in API Blueprint against its backend implementation.
  • APITransformer: Transform API Descriptions from/to various formats e.g., Swagger, API Blueprint, RAML, WADL, Google Discovery, I/O Docs.
  • Restlet Studio: Web IDE for API Design.
  • API Spec Converter: Convert between different API spec formats.
  • Prism: Supercharge any OAS file with mocking, transformations, validations, and more.
  • Apimatic: Supports API description formats including Swagger, OAI format, RAML, API Blueprint, IO Docs, WADL, Postman Collections and HAR 1.4 and more
  • Mulesoft Anypoint: Design and publish enterprise-grade APIs using RAML
  • Sandbox: Quick and easy mock RESTful API from API definitions
  • Restunited: Generate SDK, Documentation with Testing and Debugging

API Specifications

  • API Commons: A repository of language-agnostic API specifications / Data Models.
  • APIS.guru: Directory of API specs in OpenAPI(aka Swagger) 2.0 format.
  • AnyAPI: Documentation and Test Consoles for Public APIs.

API Frameworks

Ruby

  • rails-api: Rails for API only applications.
  • pliny: Opinionated template Sinatra app for writing APIs in Ruby.
  • grape: An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.
  • ActiveModel::Serializer: Brings convention over configuration to your JSON generation.
  • rabl: Generate JSON and XML from any ruby object.
  • jbuilder: Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL.
  • roar: Parse and render REST API documents using representers.

Python

  • Django REST framework: Toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
  • Tastypie: Webservice API framework for Django.
  • restless: A lightweight REST miniframework for Python.
  • flask-restful: Simple framework for creating REST APIs.
  • Falcon: Falcon is a low-level, high-performance Python framework for building HTTP APIs, app backends, and higher-level frameworks.
  • Connexion: Swagger/OpenAPI First framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation and OAuth2 support
  • apistar: A smart Web API framework, designed for Python3.
  • sanic: Sanic is a Flask-like Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast.
  • hug: hug aims to make developing Python driven APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Javascript

  • hapi.js: Web and services application framework for Node.js.
  • Restify: Node.js REST framework specifically meant for web service APIs.
  • Express: Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js.
  • sailsjs: Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js.
  • Actionhero: Multi-transport Node.js API server with integrated cluster capabilities and delayed tasks.
  • Baucis: To build
  • Koa: Next generation web framework for Node.js
  • Loopback: Node.js framework for creating APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.
  • Seneca: A microservices toolkit for Node.js.
  • Feathers: Build RESTful and real-time APIs through Socket.io or Primus.
  • Deployd: Deployd is the simplest way to build realtime APIs for web and mobile apps
  • Nest: A modern node.js framework for efficient and scalable web applications built on top of TypeScript

Go

  • Go-Json-Rest: Thin layer on top of net/http that helps building RESTful APIs easily
  • gocrud: Go library to simplify creating, updating and deleting arbitrary depth structured data — to make building REST services fast and easy.
  • sleepy: RESTful micro-framework written in Go.
  • restit: Go micro framework to help writing RESTful API integration test.
  • go-relax: Framework of pluggable components to build RESTful API's.
  • go-rest: Small and evil REST framework for Go.
  • go-restful: A declarative highly readable framework for building restful API's.
  • Goat: Minimalistic REST API server in Go.
  • Resoursea: REST framework for quickly writing resource based services.
  • Zerver: Zerver is a expressive, modular, feature completed RESTful framework.

Scala

  • Colossus: I/O and microservice library for Scala.
  • Finatra: Fast, testable, Scala HTTP services built on Twitter-Server and Finagle.
  • Play: The high velocity web framework for Java and Scala.
  • Scalatra: Simple, accessible and free web micro-framework.
  • Skinny Micro: Micro-web framework to build servlet applications in Scala.
  • Spray: Open-source toolkit for building REST/HTTP-based integration layers on top of Scala and Akka.
  • Akka HTTP: The Akka HTTP modules implement a full server- and client-side HTTP stack on top of akka-actor and akka-stream.
  • Swagger Akka HTTP: Swagger-Akka-Http brings Swagger support for Akka-Http Apis.

Java

  • Rest.li: REST framework using type-safe bindings and asynchronous, non-blocking IO.
  • Dropwizard: Framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services.
  • Jersey: RESTful web services in Java.
  • Spring Boot: RESTful Web Service using Spring, high-performance and little configuration needed.

Haskell

  • Scotty: Micro web framework inspired by Ruby's Sinatra, using WAI and Warp.
  • Spock: Another Haskell web framework for rapid development.
  • Servant: A Type-Level Web DSL.
  • Yesod: The Haskell RESTful web framework.

Elixir

  • Phoenix: Framework for building HTML5 apps, API backends and distributed systems.
  • Plug: A specification and conveniences for composable modules between web applications.

Erlang

  • Cowboy: Small, fast, modular HTTP server written in Erlang.
  • Gen Microservice: This library solves the problem of implementing microservices with Erlang.
  • Mochiweb: Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.

Postgres

  • PostgREST: Serve a RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database.

PHP

  • API Platform: API framework on top of Symfony with JSON-LD, Schema.org and Hydra support
  • Dingo API: A RESTful API package for the Laravel and Lumen frameworks
  • Fractal: Fractal provides a presentation and transformation layer for complex data output, the like found in RESTful APIs, and works really well with JSON
  • Yii2 Framework: Provides a whole set of tools to simplify the task of implementing RESTful Web Service APIs

Miscellaneous

API Client Development Tools

General

  • Swagger CodeGen: Generate client libraries automatically from a Swagger-compliant server.
  • sdks.io: Explore Automatically Generated SDKs.
  • AutoRest: Generate client libraries for RESTful web services
  • Unirest: Lightweight HTTP-Request client libraries for several languages

Ruby

  • heroics: Ruby HTTP client for APIs represented with JSON schema.
  • blanket: A Ruby API wrapper.
  • nestful: Ruby HTTP/REST client.

Java

  • Retrofit: A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java.

Javascript

  • Restangular: Restangular is an AngularJS service that simplifies common GET, POST, DELETE, and UPDATE requests with a minimum of client code

.NET

  • Refit: The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET
  • WebAnchor: Web Anchor provides type-safe, testable and flexible access to web resources.

API Documentation

  • ReDoc: OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation.
  • Swagger UI: Dynamically generate documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
  • Slate: Static site generated documentation for your API.
  • prmd: JSON Schema tooling: scaffold, verify, and generate documentation from JSON Schema documents.
  • Aglio: An API Blueprint renderer with theme support that outputs static HTML.
  • Apiary: Collaborative design, instant API mock, generated documentation, integrated code samples, debugging and automated testing.
  • Readme: API Documentation Hosting.
  • Embed curl: Embeddable curl commands on the web.
  • Gelato: Create developer portals for your API.
  • API Docs: Hosted public API documentation for OAS (Swagger) and RAML specs.
  • Docula: Documentation using Github and OpenAPI standards.
  • Docbox: REST API documentation generator, using Markdown.
  • widdershins: REST API documentation generator from OpenAPI 3.0 / Swagger 2.0 / AsyncAPI 1.x / Semoasa 0.1.0 definition

API Clients

Hosted

Desktop

  • HTTPie: Command line HTTP client.
  • HttpMaster: Desktop tool for REST API testing.
  • Paw: REST client for Mac.
  • Postman: Desktop API testing tool.
  • Insomnia: REST API client for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
  • Jsonium: Free REST client for JSON over HTTP protocols
  • I'm only Resting: Windows GUI tool for REST API testing

API Debugging and Mocking

Hosted

  • Beeceptor: An HTTP-proxy for rest APIs - inspect and build mock APIs.
  • MockBin: Generate mock HTTP endpoints.
  • RequestBin: Inspect and debug webhook POST requests.
  • httpbin: Templated responses for testing various scenarios for HTTP requests.

Desktop

  • Json-Server Full fake REST API with zero coding.
  • Mockoon: Desktop API mocking tool.
  • Postman: Desktop API client and mocking tool.

API Design Guides

API Publishing

API Gateways

  • AWS API Gateway: Traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management.
  • API Umbrella: Proxy that sits in front of your APIs.
  • APIAxle: Proxy that sits in front of your APIs.
  • APIGrove: API manager built in Java on top of Fuse ESB.
  • Apigee127: nodejs based API Gateway
  • Pushpin: Proxy for both request/response or streaming (long poll) of responses
  • Strongloop: nodejs based API Gateway
  • Fusio: PHP based open source API management platform
  • Camel: Empowers you to define routing and mediation rules in a variety of domain-specific languages, including a Java-based fluent API, Spring or Blueprint XML configuration files, and a Scala DSL.
  • HAProxy: Reliable, high Performance TCP/HTTP load balancer.
  • OpenResty: Fast web application server built on top of Nginx.
  • Tengine: A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features.
  • Tyk: Open-source, fast and scalable API gateway, portal and API management platform.
  • Vulcand: Programmatic load balancer backed by Etcd.
  • Zuul: An edge service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, security, and more.
  • Kong: An open-source management layer for APIs, delivering high performance and reliability.
  • Janus: A lightweight API Gateway written in Go by Hello Fresh.
  • fabio: A fast, modern, zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) router for deploying microservices managed by consul by eBay.
  • Traefik: Træfik (pronounced like traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer written in Go.
  • Oathkeeper: OIdentity & Access Proxy (IAP) that authorizes HTTP requests based on sets of rules. Integrates with ORY Hydra.

API Security

  • API Security checklist: Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API.
  • Ory Hydra: OAuth2 server with OpenID Connect written in Go.

API Monitoring

  • Runscope: API Performance Monitoring.
  • Moesif: Understand API Usage and Monitor API KPIs.
  • Ping-API: Automated API Testing.

API Testing

  • Assertible: Continuously test and monitor your APIs after deployments and across environments.
  • Pyresttest: YAML based REST testing and API microbenchmarking tool
  • OWASP Zaproxy: A tool to test your API for known security vulnerabilities, with a great CI integration.

JSON Format Standards

API Best Practices

Blogs

Public APIs

Advertising

API Description Open/Trial
Amazon Mobile Ads Monetize across platforms with multiple ad formats. N/A
Facebook Marketing API Manage ads and campaigns using the Facebook API. N/A
Google AdSense Free, flexible way to earn money from your websites, mobile sites, and site search results. N/A
Google AdWords API Manage Google AdWords campaigns programmatically. N/A
Microsoft Advertising Platform - Bing Ads API Provides programmatic access to various advertising technologies. N/A
Yahoo Gemini API Allows advertisers to manage complex Gemini accounts and campaigns more efficiently. N/A

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Analytics

API Description Open/Trial
Amazon Mobile Analytics Service for collecting, visualizing, and understanding app usage data at scale. N/A
Callcounter Analytics for API providers. Send request metadata to the API and view user friendly charts to analyse usage. 💸
Clicky Allows you to extract your web site's traffic data into several formats, making it easy to integrate, analyze, or store your data within your own application. N/A
Fabric A platform that helps your mobile team build better apps, understand your users, and grow your business. N/A
Flurry Yahoo’s Flurry provides you with a number of APIs enabling you to export your data. N/A
Google Analytics Google Analytics provides APIs to collect, configure, and report on user-interactions with your online content. N/A
Localytics Interface to Localytics analytics platform. N/A
Matomo Matomo is an all-in-one premium web analytics platform designed to give you the most conclusive insights. 💸
MixPanel Analytics for mobile and web which helps you analyze the actions people take in your application. N/A
Open Web Analytics Provides a way to request and work with your data outside of the OWA reporting interface. N/A
Ticksel Friendly website analytics made for humans. Secure and powerful yet simple to use. N/A
Woopra Real-time website analysis tool that targets customer engagement. N/A
Zoho Reports API Build powerful reporting and analytical capabilities into your application. N/A

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Augmented Reality

API Description Open/Trial
Vuforia Solid SDK with robust development options. 💸
Wikitude Wikitude’s all-in-one AR solution includes image recognition & tracking, 3D model rendering, video overlay, location based AR. 💸

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BarCode

API Description Open/Trial
Google Barcode The Barcode API detects barcodes in real-time, on device, in any orientation. It can also detect multiple barcodes at once. N/A
EAN-Search The EAN-Search API allows you to lookup products by EAN, UPC or GTIN barcode. 💸
QR Code API QR Code REST API. Can create QR code images or read existing images and return the contents. 💸
Stakdek's QR Generator API Returns QR code image. Uses python qrcode. N/A

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Big Data and Analytics

API Description Open/Trial
Google Charts Free tool with a wide range of capabilities for visualizing data from a website. N/A
Keen IO Keen IO is a powerful, flexible, and scalable solution that’s literally Big Data, easy-to-implement and at your fingertips. N/A
Mongo DB mongoDB is ideal for developers who want precise control over the final results and processes for handling Big Data. N/A
Ryft integrate the Ryft ONE’s data analysis capabilities into existing big data environments for faster data analysis and real-time intelligence. N/A
LinkedData.Center a RDF graph database as a service with W3C SPARQL query and SPARQL update apis. 💸

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Cryptocurrency/Crypto Wallets

API Description Open/Trial
Bitcoin Find useful resources, guides and reference material for developers. N/A
Bitcoincharts You can use this API to include markets data in your websites, mobile apps or desktop applets. N/A
bitpay A simple, RESTful API to the most powerful bitcoin infrastructure on the planet. N/A
Block The most versatile and secure wallet for all your coins. N/A
BlockCypher BlockCypher is the infrastructure fabric for blockchain applications. N/A
BlockFacts.io Compliance-first digital asset data with REST and WebSocket API support. Real-time cryptocurrency data from multiple exchanges via a single unified API. SDKs for integration, rich historic tick data. N/A
Coinbase Coinbase APIs and developer tools make building bitcoin and blockchain apps much easier. N/A
CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index. N/A
Coingecko Free and Public Cryptocurrency API which you can use without an API key. N/A
Coinlore Cryptocurrency tick data API. N/A
CoinMarketCap Cryptocurrencies Prices. N/A
coinpaprika Cryptocurrencies prices, market capitalization, volume and more. N/A
CryptoCompare Cryptocurrencies Comparison. N/A
Cryptonator Cryptocurrencies Exchange Rates. N/A
CryptoTradingAPI Real-Time Crypto Prices & Technical Analysis JSON API. 31 Technical Indicators From Binance, CoinBase and Kraken. N/A
Coinigy Interact with Coinigy Accounts and Exchange Accounts Directly. N/A
Covalent Multi-blockchain data aggregator at one unified API. N/A
Exchange Rates API Market Prices and exchanges rates api. N/A
ShapeShift.io Exchange between cryptocurrencies without an account. Well documented API for easy use. N/A
Technical Analysis Cryptocurrency prices, technical analysis and sentiment detection. N/A
Poloniex US based digital asset exchange. N/A

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Calendar

API Description Open/Trial
CalendarIndex Worldwide Holidays and Working Days API. N/A
Holiday API Public holiday API service for several supported countries. N/A

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Captcha

API Description Open/Trial
Anti-Captcha Access to Anti-Captcha’s API. N/A
ProxyCrawl Crawl and scrape websites without the need of proxies, infrastructure or browsers. We solve captchas for you and prevent you being blocked while speeding up your development. 💸
Google reCAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA lets you embed a CAPTCHA in your web pages in order to protect them against spam and other types of automated abuse. N/A

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Check-In

API Description Open/Trial
Facebook Check-In A check-in made to a location-based Page. N/A
Google Places Access to Google Places’ API. N/A
Foursquare Check-In Allows you to check in to a place. N/A

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Commerce

API Description Open/Trial
Commerce Layer Commerce Layer is a headless commerce platform that lets you add global ecommerce capabilities to any website, mobile app, chatbot, or IoT device, with ease. using the language, CMS, and tools you already master and love. N/A
Dummy Products Provides dummy products to aid you in prototyping or developing e-commerce type of websites. Open Source
envoice Invoicing for online businesses. Simplify your invoicing process and get paid online with a debit or credit card via your payment gateway. N/A
koomalooma A Loyalty BPaaS (Business Process as a Service) for mobile and web companies. Merchants issue points for actions their customers/users make, for example a purchase or a referral. koomalooma takes care of all the rest, from signing up users, keeping track of points and delivering rewards in over 80 countries. 💸
Marketcloud eCommerce APIs for developers. It covers inventory and database, carts and checkout, payments, user authentication, and more. You just bring the frontend. N/A
MLScrape Scrape product data from any e-commerce website, free tier with quota that resets monthly. 💸
Moltin Unified APIs for inventory, carts, the checkout process, payments and more, so you can focus on creating seamless customer experiences at any scale. N/A
Stripe Allows both private individuals and businesses to accept payments over the Internet. N/A
Braintree Specializes in mobile and web payment systems for ecommerce companies. N/A

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Communication

API Description Open/Trial
Africa's Talking Access African telco services through a HTTP API. 💸
iP1sms Send and receive SMS messages worldwide. 💸
MailGun Transactional Email API Service For Developers. Free first 10000 emails per month. 💸
Nexmo Make and receive phone calls, send and receive SMS worldwide. Libraries in Node, Ruby, Java, PHP, .NET & Python. 💸
Phone Number Validation Check phone number validity, location and timezones. N/A
Sakari Send and Receive SMS to over 200+ countries around the world. Send one or one million messages from a single API call. 💸
Telnyx Build Voice, SMS, Fax, Networking and Cellular IoT applications on a private, purpose-built global communications network. 💸
The SMS Works The SMS Works provides a low-cost, reliable SMS API for developers. Pay only for delivered texts, all failed messages are refunded. 💸
Twilio APIs for SMS, Voice, Video and more. 💸

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Content

API Description Open/Trial
Jokes Full featured Jokes API 💸
Perfect Tense API The Perfect Tense API is the only spelling and grammar checking API that uses artificial intelligence to automatically correct all of your text in one call. 💸
qKast Channel Content Access live content collections sourced from any page around the web. N/A
Random Data Generator API Generator for telephones, text, numbers, passwords, names, social security numbers, and cards. 💸
Random Facts Random Facts API 💸
SLF German city, country, river, database. Open Source
Today in History Daily historical events, births and deaths API. Open Source
Wikipedia Free multilingual Encyclopedia. N/A

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Currency

API Description Open/Trial
1Forge.com Real-time forex and crypto quotes via JSON and WebSocket. N/A
Coingecko.com Free, comprehensive cryptocurrency API. N/A
Currency-api Free Currency Exchange Rates API with 150+ Currencies & No Rate Limits. Open Source
CurrencyLayer.com Exchange rates and currency conversion API. N/A
CurrencyScoop.com Real-time and historical currency rates JSON API. N/A
ExchangeRate-API.com Currency conversion API. N/A
ExchangeRatesAPI.io Foreign exchange rates API with currency conversion. Open Source
Fixer.io JSON API for foreign exchange rates and currency conversion. End of day data only. N/A
Frankfurter.app Exchange rates and currency data API. Open Source
OpenRates.io Live exchange rates and currency conversion API. N/A
ratesapi.io Free foreign currency exchange rates and currency conversion. N/A

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Data Science

API Description Open/Trial
Data Science Toolkit A collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science. N/A
Time Door Time Door is an API for statistical insights into time series data. 💸

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Design

API Description Open/Trial
Dribbble Dribbble is a community of designers answering that question each day. N/A
Behance Behance is the leading online platform to showcase & discover creative work. N/A
Pexels Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. N/A
PHP-Noise Noise background image generator api with various parameters. Open Source

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Dictionary

API Description Open/Trial
Agarathi Tamil language Dictionary API. 💸
Cambridge Dictionaries Online Access to Cambridge’s custom-developed API. 💸
Datamuse API Word-finding query engine that finds words that match a given set of constraints and that are likely in a given context. 💸
Free Dictionary API Get word definitions for free. N/A
Lingua Robot API Definition of words, pronunciations, synonyms and antonyms, lemmatization and morpheme segmentation. 💸
Merriam-Webster Dictionary API Gives developers access to a big ass resource of dictionary and thesaurus content as well as specialized medical, Spanish, ESL, and student-friendly vocabulary. N/A
Oxford Dictionary API Access to Oxford Dictionary services with several different subscription options including a free tier. 💸
Wordnik Dictionary functions. N/A
Words API Use it to find definitions for more than 150,000 words. N/A
Wiktionary API Collaborative, free-content multilingual dictionary. N/A

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Entertainment

API Description Open/Trial
Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul API Get data about characters, episodes, quotes, and deaths. N/A
Cat as a Service (CATAAS) Is a REST API to spread peace and love (or not) thanks to cats. N/A
Comic Vine An extremely mature, well organized and continually updated resource of comic information. N/A
Comichron Data API for comic sales data from comichron.com. Open Source
Danbooru Get images categorized by tags. N/A
Final Space API A RESTful API that provides information and images about Final Space show. Open Source
Fun Translations API Translate to over 50+ languages from various TV Series and Movies. N/A
Lord of the Rings API Get data about the books, the movie trilogy, many characters and quotes. N/A
Marvel Access over 70 years of comic data with Marvel's official developer API. N/A
My Anime List API Get data about any specific anime or anime genre of your choice. Open Source
Pokéapi All the Pokémon data you'll ever need, in one place. Open Source
Rick and Morty All the Rick and Morty information, including images. Open Source
Star Wars API (SWAPI) All things Star Wars, based on Wookpedia and other sources. Reboot of original swapi.co, guaranteed to be maintained. Open Source
Studio Ghibli Resources from Studio Ghibli films. Open Source
TCGdex A Multilanguage Pokémon TCG Database with Cards Pictures and most of the informations contained on the cards. Open Source

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Events

API Description Open/Trial
Picatic Sell tickets directly from your app or website. N/A

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Face Recognition

API Description Open/Trial
Kairos Face recognition, emotion analysis and measuring engagement of people in images or videos for any mobile or web application. 30 Day Trial 💸
Skybiometry Face detection, emotional analysis, face grouping, recognition service and tagging the photo. N/A

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File Storage and Manipulation

API Description Open/Trial
Amazon S3 API that provides access to stored files and can be added easily to any service - and it's free for twelve months. 💸
Cloudinary API for image and video storage and manipulation - free for up to 75,000 images and 7,500 manipulations per month, good documentation, it can also manipulate GIFs and PDFs. N/A
DigitalOcean Spaces API that provides easy access to store and receive files as simple object storage with easy to understand pricing. 2 Month Free Trial 💸
Dropbox API for accessing stored files and pictures which is easy to use and free for small amounts of data. N/A
Filestack API for image and file manipulation, 250 uploads and 500 uploads per month for free, free CDN, HTML widget. N/A
Microsoft Graph API for accessing stored files and photos for personal and enterprise users with high resolution thumbnails and Microsoft Office APIs. N/A
PDF Blocks API for working with PDF documents (merge, add password, watermark, and more). Well documented, easy to use. 14-day free trial. 💸
Vector Express API for converting, processing and analyzing vector files. N/A
Verizon Cloud API for accessing stored pictures and other files stored by users of Verizon Cloud app. N/A

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Finance

API Description Open/Trial
Alpha Vantage Y Combinator backed API provider for stock, ETF, mutual fund, forex, and crypto data. There is also a 2000+ star Python wrapper for it on GitHub. N/A
Hotstoks Stock market data powered by SQL. N/A
IEX Free Stocks and Market Data. N/A
Twelve Data Stock market data (real-time & historical). N/A
Australia Plenty of kinds of data in CSV format. N/A
Canada Daily exchange rates and statistical data tables in CSV, XML or JSON formats. N/A
Exchange Rates Foreign exchange rates API with currency conversion. JSON & CORS. Open Source
Ireland Variety of data mainly in XLS format. N/A
Myanmar Currency exchange rates in JSON format. N/A
Moldova Currency exchange rates in XML, JSON and XLS formats. N/A
New Zealand Variety of data in XLS format. N/A
Nigeria Exchange rates and other info in CSV format N/A
Peru Variety of data in XLSX format. N/A
Poland Currency exchange rates and gold prices in the XML and JSON formats. N/A
Russian Federation History of exchange rates via REST XML and far more macroeconomical info via SOAP. N/A
Switzerland Rich variety of data in XLS and CSV formats. N/A
Ukraine Exchange rates and bond placements in JSON and XML formats. N/A
Portfolio Optimizer API for investment portfolio optimization. N/A

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Fitness

API Description Open/Trial
FitBit Web API for accessing data from Fitbit activity trackers, Aria scale, and manually entered logs. N/A
HealthGraph RunKeeper's web-based HealthGraph API presents Health Graph data, and provides information about a user and friends. N/A
Open Food Facts Open Food Facts is a database of food products with ingredients, allergens, nutrition facts and all the tidbits of information we can find on product labels. N/A
Strava API for accessing and managing data about athletes, activities and segments. N/A
Withings Access to data from Withings activity trackers and body measures. N/A

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Google

API Description Open/Trial
Gmail API The Gmail REST API. v1 N/A
Google BigQuery API A data platform for customers to create, manage, share and query data. v2 N/A
Google Books API Lets you search for books and manage your Google Books library. v1 N/A
Google Calendar API Lets you manipulate events and other calendar data. v3 N/A
Google Classroom API The Google Classroom API. v1 N/A
Google CustomSearch API Lets you search over a website or collection of websites. v1 N/A
Google Drive API The API to interact with Google Drive. v3 N/A
Google Fitness API The Fit API. v1 N/A
The Google Fonts Developer API. The Google Fonts API helps you add fonts to any web page. v1 N/A
Google Genomics API Provides access to Genomics data. v1beta2 N/A
Google Identity Toolkit API. Helps third party sites implement federated login. v1 N/A
Google Monitoring API API for accessing Google Cloud and API monitoring data. v2beta2 N/A

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Identity Verification

API Description Open/Trial
BlockScore A real-time API for verifying an identity by name, address, date of birth, and social security number. Unknowm
Cognito A powerful API for verifying and retrieving identity information. Can take a customer's cellphone number and return name, address history, full SSN, and date of birth. N/A
Whitepages Pro Global Identity Verification API. Get a clearer picture of your customer. Instantly know if a name, address, phone number, email, and IP all belong to the same person. Every country in the world supported. 💸

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Image Moderation

API Description Open/Trial
Clarifai AI API that analyzes images and videos and returns probability scores on the likelihood that the image contains pornography. N/A
WebPurify Provides live image moderation by humans. Free for first 100 images. 2¢ per image after. 💸

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IoT

API Description Open/Trial
Ably API for making cross-protocol realtime communication between devices easy. N/A
Particle API to manage Particle devices (including their own Arduino-compatible ones and the Raspberry Pi) and control them. Free for up to 25 devices and 250k events/month. N/A
PubNub API to make realtime applications with variety of hardware devices including Arduino, RPi, Kinoma, Atmel, Samsung Smart TV WebOS, and more. Open Source
Philips Hue Registration (free) and local Hue Bridge (not free) required - Control Hue brand lights made by Philips. API calls are made to the Hue Bridge residing on local network. Includes a web based UI. N/A
SmartThings API for Samsung SmartThings Smart Home Hub products (ZigBee, Z-Wave, IP). N/A
Temboo SDK This platform acts as a layer on top of third-party APIs, using code snippets to trigger complex processes that run through their cloud platform. N/A
ThingSpeak “Internet of Things” application and API to store and retrieve data from things using HTTP over the Internet or via a Local Area Network. N/A
Xively Uses free and open libraries to let you connect different types of hardware, using a variety of languages to their cloud service. N/A
Zetta An open source platform built on Node.js for creating IoT servers that run across geo-distributed computers and the cloud. Open Source

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Legal

Open Licenses

API Description Open/Trial
GitHub Licenses API N/A N/A
ToSDR Terms Of Service API N/A N/A

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Login Authentication

API Description Open/Trial
Auth0 Authenticate and authorize apps and APIs with any identity provider running on any stack any device or cloud. Free for 700 active users. N/A
Facebook Login for Apps Secure, fast, convenient way to login in your app/website. N/A
Firebase Authentication, analytics, cloud messaging, crash reporting, ads and more. N/A
GitHub Authentication Access to GitHub’s Authentication API. N/A
Instagram Access to Instagram’s OAuth API. N/A
LinkedIn Make it convenient for your users to sign in with their professional identity. N/A
PayPal Enables your customers to sign in to your web site quickly and securely using their PayPal login credentials. N/A
Salesforce Salesforce uses the OAuth protocol to allow users of applications to securely access data without having to reveal username and password credentials. N/A
Twitter Sign-in Works on websites, iOS, mobile and desktop applications. N/A
WorkOS Support Single Sign-On for common Enterprise Identity Providers (Okta, Azure, OneLogin). N/A

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Machine Learning

API Description Open/Trial
Amazon ML API Amazon Machine Learning API simplifies the process of making predictions that require lots of expertise around model building, data cleansing and statistical analysis. N/A
AYLIEN AYLIEN Text Analysis API is a package of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and Machine Learning tools for extracting meaning and insight from textual and visual content with ease. N/A
Big ML BigML is user-friendly and developer-friendly Machine learning API that mainly concentrates on decision trees. N/A
Cloud Machine Learning Engine Cloud-based machine learning and pattern matching tool. N/A
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning API Helps data scientists publish in minutes which once used to take days after they had developed a feasible model. N/A
ObjectCut Automatic background removal service powered by AI. From an input image given its public-accessible URL or being the image itself, ObjectCut returns the same image but without background. N/A
Unplugg Automated Forecasting API for timeseries data which can be used to forecast energy consumption, temperature, or any other timeseries data which has some seasonality effect. N/A

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Maps

API Description Open/Trial
Amazon Maps API v2 Add interactive 3D maps, graphics, and custom overlays to your Fire Tablet and Fire phone apps. N/A
Bing Maps Bing Maps platform provides multiple API options for your application. N/A
Cartes.io Create maps and markers for anything, without authentication. Open Source
CartoDB Allows you to generate maps based on data hosted in your CartoDB account. N/A
Daum Maps API Daum Maps provide multiple APIs for Korean map. N/A
Google Maps API Google Maps APIs are available for Android, iOS, web browsers and through HTTP web services. Clients can be found here. N/A
HERE Maps API Wide range of APIs available through JavaScript, iOS, Android, or REST services. N/A
Leaflet.js An open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Open Source
Mapbox Access to MapBox’s API. N/A
Open Street Map API access to OSM. N/A
Scribble The Scribble Maps API is a cross browser, mobile ready, HTML5/JavaScript, interactive map builder. N/A
Yahoo Maps Yahoo Maps lets you easily embed rich and interactive maps using your choice of platform. N/A
Yandex API for installing Yandex.Maps and the necessary tools for working it on your web app or site. N/A

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Math

API Description Open/Trial
Matlab The MATLAB RESTful API enables you to evaluate MATLAB functions on remote servers using JSON representation of MATLAB data types. N/A
Newton An API for Arithmetic and Symbolic Math. Open Source

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Medical

API Description Open/Trial
COVID-19 Data Get live and historical data regarding Coronavirus cases per country. Open Source
Infermedica AI-based engine for patient triage and preliminary medical diagnosis. v2 N/A
Lexigram NLP that extracts mentions of clinical concepts from text, gives access to clinical ontology. v1 N/A

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Miscellaneous

API Description Open/Trial
Aadhaar Bridge Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique identification number issued by the Indian government to every individual resident of India. API allows you to authenticate and perform ekYC and eSign using Aadhar. 💸
Mozilla Addons Mozilla's catalogue of addons for Firefox-compatible web browsers. Open Source
Bhagavad Gita Bhagavad Gita in various languages. Open Source
Breaking Bad Quotes A simple API to retrieve some quotes of Breaking Bad, bitch! Open Source
Callook.info Look up information about United States ham radio callsigns. N/A
ChuckNorris.io A free JSON API for hand curated Chuck Norris facts. Open Source
Cloudflare Trace Get IP Address, Timestamp, User Agent, Country Code, IATA, HTTP Version, TLS/SSL Version & More. N/A
Dataflow Kit Web Scraper API to extract information from web sites, scrape SERPs, convert web pages to PDF, and capture screenshots. 💸
Don't Kill My App Database of ways mobile vendors inhibit background activity of apps. Open Source
Domainsdb.info Registered domain names search checks the lists of registered domains for names containing particular words/phrases/numbers or symbols. N/A
Evil Insult Generator Offers the most evil insults. Open Source
Flowdash Create, edit, delete, and read your workflow data on demand. N/A
Game of Thrones Quotes A free API to retrieve some quotes of Game of Thrones! Open Source
Geocodify Worldwide geocoding, geoparsing and autocomplete for addresses. 💸
Giphy Worlds largest library of GIFs. N/A
Httpbin A Simple HTTP Request & Response Service. Open Source
Httpbin Cloudflare A Simple HTTP Request & Response Service with HTTP/3 Support by Cloudflare. Open Source
Icanhazepoch Get Epoch time. Open Source
Icanhazip IP Address API. Open Source
Image-Charts 1 URL = 1 Chart: Get a chart image in response to a URL GET or POST request. A drop-in-replacement for the deprecated Google Image Charts. N/A
IP Sidekick IP Sidekick is an API that returns information about an IP address. You can use it to customize your content based on the visitor's location or display their country. N/A
JSONbin.io Free JSON data storage service, ideal for small scale web apps, website, mobile apps. N/A
Judge0 API Compile and run source code. Open Source
Labs64 NetLicensing (API Test Center) Innovative License Management Solution. N/A
LaunchLibrary Aggregated info about space launches. N/A
LetsValidate Uncovers the technologies used on websites and URL to thumbnail. N/A
LinkPreview RESTful API that returns JSON formatted summary with title, description and preview image for any requested URL. Free & paid plans. N/A
LiveChat Online Customer Service software with customizable chat, embeddable widgets, help desk and web analytics tools. APIs include webhooks support, SDKs and open-source libraries to build on. 💸
Lottery Number Generation Generate lottery numbers. Hundereds of lottery games from various countries are supported. 💸
PageCDN Public CDN API for Open-source JavaScript, CSS and fonts libraries. Open Source
PDFmyURL RESTful API that converts webpages to PDF quickly and even does entire websites to PDF. 💸
PDF from URL API that converts websites from URL to PDF and even does convert HTML Strings to PDF for free. N/A
Pastebin Quickly share text or code, with support for over 250 languages for syntax highlighting. N/A
PhantAuth Random User Generator + OpenID Connect Provider. Like Lorem Ipsum, but for user accounts and authentication. Open Source
QuickChart Generate Chart.js image charts for email, dashboards, etc. Provides a replacement API for the old Google Image Charts service. Open Source
Quran API A RESTful Quran API to retrieve an Ayah, Surah, Juz or the enitre Holy Quran. Open Source
Quran-api Free Quran API Service with 90+ different languages and 400+ translations. Open Source
Rig Veda API All of the poets and gods in the Rig Veda, presented with the mandal and sukta numbers they're mentioned in, the meters the verses are composed in, and the categories the poets and gods belong to. N/A
Rocketium Video API Rocketium Video API allows you to create Buzzfeed-like videos programmatically. 💸
Scraper API Scraper API handles proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs so developers can easily build scalable web scrapers. N/A
Spreaker Enables developers to read and write data to Spreaker. N/A
StackExchange The StackExchange API provides RESTful services to all the sites on the StackExchange domain. N/A
RandomUserGenerator An API for generating random user data. Like Lorem Ipsum, but for people. Open Source
RestCountries Get information about countries via a RESTful API. N/A
Typeform Typeform's APIs allow you to create and edit Typeform surveys, and retrieve survey responses on demand. N/A
Unixtime Free RESTservice to convert unixtime to datetime and vice versa. N/A
Vedic Society API A description of all of the nouns in vedic literature, including the flora, fauna, geography, food, relationships, and objects (personal nouns not included, though). N/A
Wallhaven A huge wallpaper library. N/A
Website Text Extraction Scrape websites and get their content as plaintext. N/A
Who Hosts This Detect the hosting provider powering any web site. N/A
WolframAlpha Integrate top of the line computational knowledge into your applications through the WolframAlpha API. 💸
WorldTimeAPI A JSON/plain-text which returns the (approx) current time for a provided timezone or IP. Targetted at limited-compute IoT devices. N/A

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Movies

API Description Open/Trial
OMDB OMDb provides a subscription based web service to obtain information and metadata about movies. 💸
TMDb TMDb provides powerful searches as well as powerful movie discovery. N/A
Trakt Trakt collect lots of information about what tv shows and movies everyone is watching. N/A
TVmaze TV Show and web series database. Episode guide, cast, crew and character information. Recaps, reviews, episode trailers, celebrity photos and more. N/A

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Music

API Description Open/Trial
AI Mastering AI Mastering API provides automated audio mastering service. You can upload your audio, master it, and download the mastered audio. N/A
Deezer Deezer API provides a nice set of services to build up web applications allowing the discovery of Deezer's music catalogue. N/A
Discogs Access database of artists, labels, releases, marketplace and more. N/A
Last.fm The Last.fm API allows anyone to build their own programs using Last.fm data, whether they're on the web, the desktop or mobile devices. N/A
musicApi Centralized Node.JS API SDK for the top 3 music providers in China, Xiami, Netease, and QQ music. N/A
NPR API NPR's API is a content API, which essentially provides a structured way for other computer applications to get NPR stories in a predictable, flexible and powerful way. N/A
QuantOneMusic Answers the need for digital music data. N/A
Rhapsody Access metadata, user’s entire library of music and do much more. N/A
SearchLy Song similarity search API based on lyrics. Open Source
SoundCloud Using the SoundCloud API, you can build applications that take sound on the web to the next level. N/A
Spotify Spotify’s Web API lets your applications fetch data from the Spotify music catalog, manage users' playlists and saved music, get recommendations, control Spotify Connect, and more. N/A
TheAudioDB Free JSON API for music data, artwork, charting, ratings and hashes. Open Source

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Music Analytics

API Description Open/Trial
Next Big Sound API offers a very simple interface to access data from NBS. Ruby wrapper available. N/A

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Music Discovery

API Description Open/Trial
Rovi Access to Metadata, search capabilities and recommendations. N/A
Setlist.fm The setlist.fm API has been designed to give you easy access to setlist data in order to build fancy websites and other applications. N/A
TuneFind Allows developers to enhance their services with song, show, and movie data from TuneFind. N/A
Genius Allows users to find details about Genius artists and songs. N/A

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Music Identification

API Description Open/Trial
Acoustid Supports searching through their fingerprint database. Open Source
AudD Recognize music in microphone recordings, audio files and UGC. N/A
Gracenote Largest source of music and video metadata on the planet. N/A

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Music Lyrics

API Description Open/Trial
ChartLyrics Lyrics API Allows users to search for lyrics using the artist name, song title, or lyric text. N/A
Lololyrics API Given an artist and track name, obtains its lyrics and metadata such as the year released and album art. Specializes more in electronic dance music genres such as hardstyle. N/A
Musixmatch Power your music project by licensing access to the world’s most authoritative lyrics DB. N/A

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Music Stores

API Description Open/Trial
iTunes Search The Search API allows you to place search fields in your website to search for content within the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store and Mac App Store. N/A
Reverb Sell and buy music related merchandise. N/A

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News Services

API Description Open/Trial
Faroo Alternative to Google Web Search API / Google News Search API, allows you to search news within dates, fetch trending news, topics and terms. N/A
Mediastack Scalable JSON API delivering worldwide news, headlines and blog articles in real-time. N/A
New York Times Article search, best sellers, campaign finance, community, most popular, real estate, movie reviews, NY state legislature, Times newswire, tags, and people. N/A
NewsAPI 70+ news sources and their headlines, one API. N/A
NewsCatcherAPI News API to find news articles by any topic, country, language, website or keyword. 💸
The Guardian Access a huge range of content from The Guardian. N/A

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Natural Language Processing

API Description Open/Trial
Cloudmersive NLP APIs Wide array of unified NLP APIs including language translation, rephrasing, sentiment analysis, hate speech detection, and more. N/A
DialogFlow Natural Language Interactions for Bots, Applications, Services, and Devices. N/A
Datum Box Datumbox offers a powerful open-source Machine Learning Framework written in Java. Open Source
Language Detection Detect language(s) from pieces of text. N/A
LUIS AI Language Understanding Intelligent Service offers a fast and effective way of adding language understanding to applications. N/A
MeaningCloud Text analysis APIs for topic extraction, sentiment analysis, automatic classification, morphosyntactic analysis, language detection and more. Several languages are supported. N/A
ParallelDots ParallelDots AI APIs are the most comprehensive set of document classification and NLP APIs for software developers that provide state-of-the-art accuracy on most common NLP use-cases such as sentiment analysis and emotion detection. N/A
Recast.AI Recast.AI provide an NLP API for text analysis and entity extraction. Recast.AI is the leading platform to build, connect and monitor bots. N/A
Shakespeare Translator API Shakespeare English Translation API. 💸
SpeechText.AI API Cloud Speech Recognition API. Transform speech to text with high accuracy in multiple languages. Generate summaries with important highlights from audio and video files. 💸
SummarizeBot API AI web data extraction and analysis. Multilingual summarization, keywords and sentiment analysis, language recognition, article extraction, comments identification, multimedia analysis, image and face recognition solutions. 💸
Semantria SAAS API based on Lexalytics engine. N/A
TextRazor Helps you extract and understand the Who, What, Why, and How from your supplied text. N/A
VoiceRSS An API to convert Text to Speech, supporting 15+ major languages. N/A
Wit AI Provides an intent-based NLP API to easily build text and audio based chat bots. Open Source
Word Associations API Provides service to get associations for a word or phrase. Words are grouped by semantics, meaning, and psychological perception. N/A

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Placeholder Images

API Description Open/Trial
DummyImage Particularly nice, when compared to some of its competitors, in that it offers a great deal of flexibility. N/A
Pixabay Restful API for searching and retrieving free images and videos. N/A
Placehold A quick and simple image placeholder service. N/A
PlaceKitten A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. N/A
Satyr Free powerful API for generating dummy images with unique features like delay, aspect ratio, variable resolution, themes, flags and offline mode. N/A
Lorem Picsum Beautiful placeholders using images from the popular Unsplash. N/A

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Places

API Description Open/Trial
bng2latlong Convert an OSGB36 easting and northing (British National Grid) to WGS84 latitude and longitude. N/A
CityGrid Enables developers to create web and mobile applications that find local businesses, organizations, and points of interest by a variety of search criteria. N/A
CountryAPI Gets all the countries, and obtain the most important information of these. N/A
Factual Providing a places search that can be searched by latitude/longitude, and “where” using full text search query string. N/A
Foursquare Venue Providing a places search that can be searched by  hierarchical list of categories, longitude/latitude etc. N/A
Google Places API Providing a places search that can be searched by latitude/longitude, keyword matched against all fields, name of place, type of place restricted by radius. N/A
Nokia Providing a JavaScript places search that can be searched by search term, with a detail search for display by JS widget. N/A
Yelp You can search location using longitude and latitude, neighborhood, address or city and filter listings by “where”, using a list of support categories. N/A

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Product

API Description Open/Trial
Product Hunt The best new products, every day. N/A

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Quotes

API Description Open/Trial
FavQs FavQs allows you to collect, discover, and share your favorite quotes. N/A
Forismatic Gives you a random quote per click. N/A
Quotable Fetch quotes based on your query parameters, which includes random quotes by author, ID, tags and more. Open Source
They Said So Gives you a random quote per day. N/A

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Retail

API Description Open/Trial
Amazon Product Advertising API Get access to the data used by Amazon including items for sale, customer reviews, seller reviews, item search, product promotions, and more. N/A

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Science

API Description Open/Trial
MPDS Provides experimental materials science data excerpted from the peer-reviewed publications. 💸
NASA Get NASA data, including imagery, list of asteroids based on their closest approach date to Earth and much more. N/A
Open Science Framework A free, open source workflow/project management system for storing, collaborating on, and sharing research across the scholarly life cycle. Open Source
Open Access Button Free, legal research articles delivered instantly or automatically requested from authors. N/A
SHARE A free, open dataset of scholarly research activity across the scholarly lifecycle. Open Source

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Screenshots

API Description Open/Trial
ApiFlash Chrome based screenshot API to convert URLs to images. N/A
SavePage.io A free, RESTful API used to screenshot any desktop or mobile website with the real Chrome browser. 💸
ScreenshotAPI.net Use one simple API call to generate screenshots of any website. N/A

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Social Media

API Description Open/Trial
Daily Motion Build applications centered around DailyMotion. N/A
Dangerous Discord Database Access a database of Dangerous Discord Users. N/A
Delicious Access to Delicious’s API. N/A
DeviantArt The largest social networking website for artists and art enthusiasts. N/A
EventBrite The Eventbrite Python SDK makes it trivial to interact with the Eventbrite API. Open Source
Facebook For ads, games, payments, login, sharing stats, and user data. N/A
Flickr Search through user Flickr content, contacts, upload or replace photos. N/A
Foursquare Access to Foursquare database and ability to interact with Foursquare users. N/A
GoodReads Allows developers access to Goodreads data in order to help websites or applications that deal with books. N/A
Gravatar Create profiles and avatars using this web service. N/A
Hacker News Anything that good hackers would find interesting. N/A
Hacker News GraphQL Convenient HackerNews GraphQL wrapper API. N/A
Imgur Imgur's API exposes the entire Imgur infrastructure via a standardized programmatic interface. N/A
Instagram Search photos by location, user, tags, view trending photos, and make custom items. N/A
LinkedIn Enables apps to connect to user accounts, data, connections, groups, communications, and social streams. N/A
Mastodon Access to Mastodon’s APIs, the Open-source twitter competitor. Open Source
Microlink Turns any link into information. Take screenshots, extract predominant palette colors. N/A
MySocialApp Seamless Social Networking features, API, SDK for any app. N/A
Pinterest Enables apps to view the most clicked-through or repinned Pins, view related posts, and user profiles. N/A
Reddit API to build clients, crawlers, scrapers, and browser extensions. Open Source
Saidit Open source API wrapper made for the Reddit alternative Saidit.net. Open Source
Snapchat PHP library of Snapchat’s private API. N/A
Telegram The Telegram API allows you to build your own customized Telegram clients. N/A
Trash Nothing Build apps on top of one of the largest freecycling and reuse communities with millions of people giving away thousands of free items every day. N/A
Twitch The Twitch API enables you to develop your own applications using the rich feature set that Twitch provides. N/A
Twitter Enables an app to interact with most of Twitter’s functions. N/A
Tumblr Create new ways to use Tumblr with access to content, likes, followers, and drafts. N/A
Vimeo Access to Vimeo’s API. N/A
Viber With Viber’s APIs, can create unique experiences for users at scale. N/A
VK Access to VKontakte's API. This has a variety of features such as authorization via VK, embedding VK comments for things like blogs, and taking payments via VK. Additionally, you may use the VK API to control much of the functionality on the website (for example, adjusting shop inventory in your VK community's market section). N/A
Weibo Programmatic access to China’s most popular microblogging site. N/A
Whatsapp Document Interaction If your application creates photos, videos or audio notes and you’d like your users to share these media using WhatsApp. #Limited N/A
Wordpress Access to Wordpress’ API. N/A
Untappd Untappd is a mobile web app that allows you to socially share beers that you're enjoying. N/A
YouTube Add YouTube functionality to your sites and apps. N/A
Zomato Zomato APIs give you access to the freshest and most exhaustive information for over 1.5 million restaurants across 10,000 cities globally. N/A

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Source Control

API Description Open/Trial
Bitbucket Access to Bitbucket's API. N/A
GitHub Build real-world GitHub applications right from authentication, to manipulating results, to combining results with other service. N/A
GitHub Gists Access to GitHub’s Gists API. N/A
GitLab Access to GitLab's API. N/A
Mercurial Access to Mercurial’s API. N/A
SVN Collection of modular libraries written in the C programming language. N/A
Team Foundation Server TFS APIs are based on REST, OAuth, Json and service hooks. N/A

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Sport

API Description Open/Trial
Ergast Formula 1 Provides access to current and historical Formula 1 race data from 1950 to today. N/A
FIFA women's world cup 2019 FIFA women's world cup 2019 matches and group stage results. N/A
Football Prediction Predictions for upcoming football matches, odds, results and stats. 💸
TheSportsDB Various sports events, results, players, teams and high quality artwork. N/A

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Test Data

API Description Open/Trial
Faker API Collection of completely free APIs that helps web developers and web designers with generating fake data. N/A
PIPL API Free and public API that generates random and fake people's data in JSON. N/A

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Transportation

API Description Open/Trial
ADS-B Exchange Access real-time and historical data of any and all airborne aircraft. N/A
AfterShip Provides multi-carrier shipment tracking APIs. N/A
CarsXE API Get access to millions of vehicle records, specs, ownership costs and market values. 💸
Edmunds A dataset containing all the car makes. N/A
HyperTrack Build applications that track the movement of your business. 💸
Lyft Get real-time ETAs, availability, price estimates, ride status through the Lyft API. N/A
Postmen Add shipping capability of FedEx, UPS, DHL, USPS and over 40 carriers worldwide. N/A
Postmates Build on-demand delivery into your app or website. N/A
Ola Help your users find, book and track Ola rides with ease. Ola is India’s most popular cab booking app with availability of rides in more than 100 cities across India. N/A
Uber Uber provides API for customizing trip experiences, requesting rides, powering logistics, creating bots and so much more. N/A

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URL Shorteners

API Description Open/Trial
Bitly Access to Bitly’s API. N/A
GoTiny Lightweight and easy to implement URL shortener. Supports custom links and offers JavaScript SDK. N/A
Is.gd Simple URL shortener. Supports custom short link ending. N/A
ShrtURI URL shortening API for creating short URLs from long URLs. N/A
Tiny.cc Easy-to-use URL shortener. Supports custom short link ending. N/A
Tiny.UID API for shortening long URLs. N/A
V.gd Simple URL shortener. Supports custom short link ending. N/A
Yourls Generate or get existing short URLs, with sequential or custom keyword. N/A
Zero Width Shortener URL shortener that shortens URLs using spaces that have zero width, making them invisible to humans. N/A

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Videogames

API Description Open/Trial
Autochess VNG API API that provides data about Autochess VNG. Open Source
Clash Royale API that provides information about Clash Royale game. N/A
FreeToGame Free-to-play games database API. N/A
GamerPower Access programmatically the best giveaways in gaming, from free games to beta keys to free in-game loot and more. N/A
GiantBomb API to query the GiantBomb database for videogames, characters, companies, genres and many more. N/A
Hyrule Compendium API serving data on all interactive items in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Open Source
IGDB Access the International Games Database and get information about videogames, characters, companies, genres and many more. Commercial usage is allowed. N/A
MMO Games MMO Games database, news and giveaways. N/A
RAWG Open video game database. Find games by platform, genre, company or find game developers, stores, publishers and many more. N/A

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Weather

API Description Open/Trial
AccuWeather AccuWeather provides hourly and minute by minute forecasts with Superior accuracy. AccuWeather provides the world’s most sophisticated weather intelligence. 💸
AerisWeather Global weather data and imagery APIs, with a free developer subscription tier, boasting detailed documentation for simple to advanced queries, free SDKs and a Map Builder to get you up and running faster. N/A
Open-Meteo Global weather forecast API. Free for non-commercial use. No API key required. CORS supported. N/A
Open Weather Access current weather data for any location on Earth including over 200,000 cities! N/A
Storm Glass Marine Weather API Global marine weather data from multiple sources in one single API! N/A
Weather-API A free RESTful API to check the weather. N/A
Weatherbit Access forecasts, current weather, and historical weather data for any point on the Earth! N/A
Weather Source Powerful Weather API built for systems that demand speed, reliability and heavy load. N/A
Weatherstack Real-Time & Historical World Weather Data API. N/A
Wunderground API Reliable data, accurate forecast, & global coverage in 80 languages. N/A
Yahoo Weather API Get up-to-date information for any location, including 5-day forecast, wind, atmosphere, astronomy conditions, and more. N/A

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Credits

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Resources For Design and Discovery of APIs

API Description Open/Trial
Abstract Suite of utility API's (validate emails, create user avatars, calculate VAT, and more) 💸
Apiary Collaborative tool to design APIs. 💸
OpenAPI Standard, language-agnostic interface to REST APIs (based on Swagger). Open Source
Swagger Tools for designing, building, and documenting RESTful APIs. Open Source

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