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The key here is tested daily. The last time I wanted some sample data api it took me way too long to find one because all the ones that were recommended to me were deprecated. It's really tough to keep a free api up, because there's no incentives. You can't sell ads on it.
> You can't sell ads on it.
Maybe you could! Perhaps a sample data API that creates users like "John Chocolate Oreos," address "100 Pack Street", age 19.99, email "visit<at>oreo.com"
(This doesn't apply to every API in the list, but) having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine, never again.
These days I keep an API deployed on a subdomain I control.
> having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine
The possibility of an internet resource disappearing exists regardless of the resource type.
Running an API Forwarder that could act as a common target for all your APIs might work. Give it the request, and it passes it on, records success, optionally sends a notification if an endpoint that previously succeeded is now failing.
Add a fancy feature of redirection with format changing to handle replacing dead APIs with new ones transparently.
If anybody makes one of these, they should totally make it a free public API. I'd use it, and I'm not certain if that would just be ironically.
I’ve seen books reference internet archive.
I did a similar deep dive to find all the specifically Music-related APIs that are available a few years ago. I've since moved on to other projects but maybe someone will find it useful / maybe OP can add the entries in my list to FreePublicAPIs.com!
I'm not OP but I am the dude who made freepublicapis.com. Will check it out for sure, thank you so much!
I'm glad to see https://isevenapi.xyz/ made the list.
I love their pricing options include larger ranges of numbers, and enterprise class also includes negative numbers. ha ha.
Best part is that 'sign up' links to https://archive.org/donate/
What I really want is isoddapi.xyz.
Just like the npm package, all it should do is call isevenapi.xyz and invert the result.
I Seven API vs is Even API. Can't say I saw it the right way at first.
I feel like one of the categories they are missing is 'APIs that can be done in one line of JavaScript"
I'm not saying these shouldn't exist, I think they're pretty funny, but everything in its place.
This made my day..
But what do I do if I need to know if a number is odd?
It was the first one I searched for. What a silly tool: Parity as a Service.
Not having a free public API for this site is a bit of a joke.
It would never load due to infinite recursion.
What's the use case?
I keep this list bookmarked: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
Sadly they are missing health checks.
Paraphrasing a known saying, "there's no API, it's just someone else's computer".
I wish programmers would internalize this. They often seem to take APIs uncritically, not questioning whose resources they're using and where does the data come from as well as its quality beyond obvious cases. APIs are leaky abstractions as all abstractions are.
All of the API titles have been replaced by emojis () for me. Is this a bug or is it intentional?
I like this, not only does it let people find the APIs but having a collection like this encourages others to make APIs and to keep them running.
There's not a lot of incentive to create a service if you feel like no-one will ever know about it. I have had a few thoughts for services that I might have developed if I thought anyone would ever see it.
There's probably an argument for sponsorship here as well, not as a vehicle for advertising, but just companies paying for (or supplying resources) to cover the ongoing costs of the service as a public good. I wish I could make something that worked and could put it somewhere and commit zero mindspace to billing, server maintenance etc. and just have it keep running, forever.
No right click -> New tab / Middle click is a killer in 2024.
> Free IP Geolocation API - lookup any IP address. Provides geolocation data based on the input IPv4/IPv6 address or domain name
Where does one get a geo location for an IP address from?
Whatever happened to programmable web?
Using Hugo to make a read-only API would be a great way to make an always-up API with minimal maintenance. Host on any static site host.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180530151717/https://forestry....
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180525154607/https://forestry....
Tangentially, what APIs do you guys actually pay for? (Personally or through work)
I'm relieved to know the Rick and Morty API is in such good health.
Small nitpick: How does this calculate the health score shown? I see a vague description in the about page, but I'm confused by the weights. For example the Guild Wars 2 API shows 95 prevent, but clicking for details shows 100 percent reliability. Perhaps it's the high latency that drops it's score by 5 percent?
This is really great overall. I like the interface on mobile, and search works great for me so far. Bookmarking for later.
I think most of these would be better off as files
Most of them are useless play apis, but it's a fun dataset maybe. Also I guess most don't use the OpenAPI standard.
Odd layout. After entering a search in the text field, the next element is a title: “Search for an API” and a subheading: “Searching for APIs…”. The results were below the fold on my phone. This title made me think the query was not yet submitted, so I’m sure I submitted the form a bunch of times.
Wanted to add AISstream but didn't work.
Does it accept websocket APIs?
wss://stream.aisstream.io/v0/stream
https://aisstream.io/documentation
Anyone know of a decent (doesn't have to be realtime) stock API for stocks? I didn't find any under the finance category besides one crypto related.
Very cool site and a good reminder that we need more common/shared infrastructure like that.
One nitpick: why can I not open like KS to API sub-pages in a new tab? Are Hyperlinks unfashionable now?
This site is very slow when accessed from Asia. And I can't open each card in a new tab. Slow server and/or bad Nuxt implementation?
An API for polling data would be cool, one can dream
Regarding APIs, what is a recommend good and free tool, other than Postman, that allows for importing and exporting of saved collections?
Great resource, with a nice UI (Love to know how it's built).
Found public resources I always wished existed.
Me likes, however the first API I looked for was not found. USPS address verification
This is great - bookmarked!
I tried to build something years ago on a similar foundation, and I found maintaining the API list to be impossible as a solo dev. In a pool of say 30 APIs, at least one would break their "contract" as a public resource daily. Shifting endpoints, revoked public tokens, changing outputs.
I was quite disappointed because I loved the product, a dashboard for arbitrary live data sourced from APIs, but the cost of maintaining it was too high.
Just a friendly reminder that rubygems.org's APIs are free/public: https://guides.rubygems.org/rubygems-org-api/
And there's a weekly data dump of our database: https://rubygems.org/pages/data
less is more get rid of the joke ones
"are" tested daily.
Not to QC the link title, but ;)