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Awesome list of public APIs — manually curated directory of free APIs across diverse domains
This awesome list compiles an extensive, manually curated directory of free public APIs across numerous domains. Community members maintain and expand the list, making it a valuable resource for developers seeking external services. It categorizes APIs by domain, providing descriptions, authentication requirements, and HTTPS/CORS support for each entry.
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- Extensive directory of free public APIs
- Categorized APIs by domain (e.g., Animals, Anime, Finance)
- Includes API descriptions, authentication, HTTPS, CORS details
- Community-maintained and regularly updated
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The Public APIs repository is manually curated by community members like you and folks working at APILayer. It includes an extensive list of public APIs from many domains that you can use for your own products. Consider it a treasure trove of APIs well-managed by the community over the years.
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APILayer APIs
| API | Description | Call this API |
|---|---|---|
| IPstack | Locate and Identify Website Visitors by IP Address |  |
| Marketstack | Free, easy-to-use REST API interface delivering worldwide stock market data in JSON format | |
| Weatherstack | Retrieve instant, accurate weather information for any location in the world in lightweight JSON format | |
| Numverify | Global Phone Number Validation & Lookup JSON API | |
| Fixer | Fixer is a simple and lightweight API for current and historical foreign exchange (forex) rates. | |
| Aviationstack | Free, real-time flight status and global Aviation data API | |
| Zenserp | Fast, Accurate Google Search Data Built for Developers | |
| Screenshotlayer | Capture highly customizable screenshots of any website | Documentation |
| Exchangerate Host | Real-time current and historical foreign exchange and crypto rates | Documentation |
| Mailboxlayer | Email Validation & Verification JSON API for Developers | Documentation |
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Index
- Animals
- Anime
- Anti-Malware
- Art & Design
- Authentication & Authorization
- Blockchain
- Books
- Business
- Calendar
- Cloud Storage & File Sharing
- Continuous Integration
- Cryptocurrency
- Currency Exchange
- Data Validation
- Development
- Dictionaries
- Documents & Productivity
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Events
- Finance
- Food & Drink
- Games & Comics
- Geocoding
- Government
- Health
- Jobs
- Machine Learning
- Music
- News
- Open Data
- Open Source Projects
- Patent
- Personality
- Phone
- Photography
- Programming
- Science & Math
- Security
- Shopping
- Social
- Sports & Fitness
- Test Data
- Text Analysis
- Tracking
- Transportation
- URL Shorteners
- Vehicle
- Video
- Weather
Animals
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AdoptAPet | Resource to help get pets adopted | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Axolotl | Collection of axolotl pictures and facts | No | Yes | No |
| Cat Facts | Daily cat facts | No | Yes | No |
| Cataas | Cat as a service (cats pictures and gifs) | No | Yes | No |
| Cats | Pictures of cats from Tumblr | apiKey |
Yes | No |
| Dog Facts | Random dog facts | No | Yes | Yes |
| Dog Facts | Random facts of Dogs | No | Yes | Yes |
| Dogs | Based on the Stanford Dogs Dataset | No | Yes | Yes |
| eBird | Retrieve recent or notable birding observations within a region | apiKey |
Yes | No |
| FishWatch | Information and pictures about individual fish species | No | Yes | Yes |
| HTTP Cat | Cat for every HTTP Status | No | Yes | Yes |
| HTTP Dog | Dogs for every HTTP response status code | No | Yes | Yes |
| IUCN | IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | apiKey |
No | No |
| MeowFacts | Get random cat facts | No | Yes | No |
| Movebank | Movement and Migration data of animals | No | Yes | Yes |
| Petfinder | Petfinder is dedicated to helping pets find homes, another resource to get pets adopted | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| PlaceBear | Placeholder bear pictures | No | Yes | Yes |
| PlaceDog | Placeholder Dog pictures | No | Yes | Yes |
| PlaceKitten | Placeholder Kitten pictures | No | Yes | Yes |
| RandomDog | Random pictures of dogs | No | Yes | Yes |
| RandomDuck | Random pictures of ducks | No | Yes | No |
| RandomFox | Random pictures of foxes | No | Yes | No |
| RescueGroups | Adoption | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Shibe.Online | Random pictures of Shiba Inu, cats or birds | No | Yes | Yes |
| The Dog | A public service all about Dogs, free to use when making your fancy new App, Website or Service | apiKey |
Yes | No |
| xeno-canto | Bird recordings | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Zoo Animals | Facts and pictures of zoo animals | No | Yes | Yes |
Anime
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AniAPI | Anime discovery, streaming & syncing with trackers | OAuth |
Yes | Yes |
| AniDB | Anime Database | apiKey |
No | Unknown |
| AniList | Anime discovery & tracking | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| AnimeChan | Anime quotes (over 10k+) | No | Yes | No |
| AnimeFacts | Anime Facts (over 100+) | No | Yes | Yes |
| AnimeNewsNetwork | Anime industry news | No | Yes | Yes |
| Catboy | Neko images, funny GIFs & more | No | Yes | Yes |
| Danbooru Anime | Thousands of anime artist database to find good anime art | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Jikan | Unofficial MyAnimeList API | No | Yes | Yes |
| Kitsu | Anime discovery platform | OAuth |
Yes | Yes |
| MangaDex | Manga Database and Community | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Mangapi | Translate manga pages from one language to another | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| MyAnimeList | Anime and Manga Database and Community | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| NekosBest | Neko Images & Anime roleplaying GIFs | No | Yes | Yes |
| Shikimori | Anime discovery, tracking, forum, rates | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| Studio Ghibli | Resources from Studio Ghibli films | No | Yes | Yes |
| Trace Moe | A useful tool to get the exact scene of an anime from a screenshot | No | Yes | No |
| Waifu.im | Get waifu pictures from an archive of over 4000 images and multiple tags | No | Yes | Yes |
| Waifu.pics | Image sharing platform for anime images | No | Yes | No |
Anti-Malware
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AbuseIPDB | IP/domain/URL reputation | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX) | IP/domain/URL reputation | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| CAPEsandbox | Malware execution and analysis | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Google Safe Browsing | Google Link/Domain Flagging | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| MalDatabase | Provide malware datasets and threat intelligence feeds | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| MalShare | Malware Archive / file sourcing | apiKey |
Yes | No |
| MalwareBazaar | Collect and share malware samples | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Metacert | Metacert Link Flagging | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| NoPhishy | Check links to see if they're known phishing attempts | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Phisherman | IP/domain/URL reputation | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Scanii | Simple REST API that can scan submitted documents/files for the presence of threats | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| URLhaus | Bulk queries and Download Malware Samples | No | Yes | Yes |
| URLScan.io | Scan and Analyse URLs | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| VirusTotal | VirusTotal File/URL Analysis | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Web of Trust | IP/domain/URL reputation | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
Art & Design
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Améthyste | Generate images for Discord users | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Art Institute of Chicago | Art | No | Yes | Yes |
| Colormind | Color scheme generator | No | No | Unknown |
| ColourLovers | Get various patterns, palettes and images | No | No | Unknown |
| Cooper Hewitt | Smithsonian Design Museum | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Dribbble | Discover the world’s top designers & creatives | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| EmojiHub | Get emojis by categories and groups | No | Yes | Yes |
| Europeana | European Museum and Galleries content | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Harvard Art Museums | Art | apiKey |
No | Unknown |
| Icon Horse | Favicons for any website, with fallbacks | No | Yes | Yes |
| Iconfinder | Icons | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Icons8 | Icons (find "search icon" hyperlink in page) | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Lordicon | Icons with predone Animations | No | Yes | Yes |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | Met Museum of Art | No | Yes | No |
| Noun Project | Icons | OAuth |
No | Unknown |
| PHP-Noise | Noise Background Image Generator | No | Yes | Yes |
| Pixel Encounter | SVG Icon Generator | No | Yes | No |
| Rijksmuseum | RijksMuseum Data | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Word Cloud | Easily create word clouds | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| xColors | Generate & convert colors | No | Yes | Yes |
Authentication & Authorization
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auth0 | Easy to implement, adaptable authentication and authorization platform | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| GetOTP | Implement OTP flow quickly | apiKey |
Yes | No |
| Micro User Service | User management and authentication | apiKey |
Yes | No |
| MojoAuth | Secure and modern passwordless authentication platform | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| SAWO Labs | Simplify login and improve user experience by integrating passwordless authentication in your app | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Stytch | User infrastructure for modern applications | apiKey |
Yes | No |
| Warrant | APIs for authorization and access control | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
Blockchain
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitquery | Onchain GraphQL APIs & DEX APIs | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Chainlink | Build hybrid smart contracts with Chainlink | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Chainpoint | Chainpoint is a global network for anchoring data to the Bitcoin blockchain | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Covalent | Multi-blockchain data aggregator platform | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Etherscan | Ethereum explorer API | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Helium | Helium is a global, distributed network of Hotspots that create public, long-range wireless coverage | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Nownodes | Blockchain-as-a-service solution that provides high-quality connection via API | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Steem | Blockchain-based blogging and social media website | No | No | No |
| The Graph | Indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum with GraphQL | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Walltime | To retrieve Walltime's market info | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Watchdata | Provide simple and reliable API access to Ethereum blockchain | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
Books
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Bíblia Digital | Do not worry about managing the multiple versions of the Bible | apiKey |
Yes | No |
| Bhagavad Gita | Open Source Shrimad Bhagavad Gita API including 21+ authors translation in Sanskrit/English/Hindi | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Bhagavad Gita | Bhagavad Gita text | OAuth |
Yes | Yes |
| Bhagavad Gita telugu | Bhagavad Gita API in telugu and odia languages | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bible-api | Free Bible API with multiple languages | No | Yes | Yes |
| British National Bibliography | Books | No | No | Unknown |
| Crossref Metadata Search | Books & Articles Metadata | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Ganjoor | Classic Persian poetry works including access to related manuscripts, recitations and music tracks | OAuth |
Yes | Yes |
| Google Books | Books | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| GurbaniNow | Fast and Accurate Gurbani RESTful API | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Gutendex | Web-API for fetching data from Project Gutenberg Books Library | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Open Library | Books, book covers and related data | No | Yes | No |
| Penguin Publishing | Books, book covers and related data | No | Yes | Yes |
| PoetryDB | Enables you to get instant data from our vast poetry collection | No | Yes | Yes |
| Quran | RESTful Quran API with multiple languages | No | Yes | Yes |
| Quran Cloud | A RESTful Quran API to retrieve an Ayah, Surah, Juz or the entire Holy Quran | No | Yes | Yes |
| Quran-api | Free Quran API Service with 90+ different languages and 400+ translations | No | Yes | Yes |
| Rig Veda | Gods and poets, their categories, and the verse meters, with the mandal and sukta number | No | Yes | Unknown |
| The Bible | Everything you need from the Bible in one discoverable place | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Thirukkural | 1330 Thirukkural poems and explanation in Tamil and English | No | Yes | Yes |
| Vedic Society | Descriptions of all nouns (names, places, animals, things) from vedic literature | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Wizard World | Get information from the Harry Potter universe | No | Yes | Yes |
| Wolne Lektury | API for obtaining information about e-books available on the WolneLektury.pl website | No | Yes | Unknown |
Business
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Superset | API to manage your BI dashboards and data sources on Superset | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Charity Search | Non-profit charity data | apiKey |
No | Unknown |
| Clearbit Logo | Search for company logos and embed them in your projects | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Domainsdb.info | Registered Domain Names Search | No | Yes | No |
| Freelancer | Hire freelancers to get work done | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| Gmail | Flexible, RESTful access to the user's inbox | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| Google Analytics | Collect, configure and analyze your data to reach the right audience | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| Instatus | Post to and update maintenance and incidents on your status page through an HTTP REST API | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Mailchimp | Send marketing campaigns and transactional mails | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| mailjet | Marketing email can be sent and mail templates made in MJML or HTML can be sent using API | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| markerapi | Trademark Search | No | No | Unknown |
| ORB Intelligence | Company lookup | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Redash | Access your queries and dashboards on Redash | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Smartsheet | Allows you to programmatically access and Smartsheet data and account information | OAuth |
Yes | No |
| Square | Easy way to take payments, manage refunds, and help customers checkout online | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| SwiftKanban | Kanban software, Visualize Work, Increase Organizations Lead Time, Throughput & Productivity | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Tenders in Hungary | Get data for procurements in Hungary in JSON format | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Tenders in Poland | Get data for procurements in Poland in JSON format | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Tenders in Romania | Get data for procurements in Romania in JSON format | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Tenders in Spain | Get data for procurements in Spain in JSON format | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Tenders in Ukraine | Get data for procurements in Ukraine in JSON format | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Tomba email finder | Email Finder for B2B sales and email marketing and email verifier | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Trello | Boards, lists and cards to help you organize and prioritize your projects | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
Calendar
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calendarific | Worldwide Holidays | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Checkiday - National Holiday API | Industry-leading Holiday API. Over 5,000 holidays and thousands of descriptions. Trusted by the World’s leading companies | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Church Calendar | Catholic liturgical calendar | No | No | Unknown |
| Czech Namedays Calendar | Lookup for a name and returns nameday date | No | No | Unknown |
| Festivo Public Holidays | Fastest and most advanced public holiday and observance service on the market | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Google Calendar | Display, create and modify Google calendar events | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| Hebrew Calendar | Convert between Gregorian and Hebrew, fetch Shabbat and Holiday times, etc | No | No | Unknown |
| Holidays | Historical data regarding holidays | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| LectServe | Protestant liturgical calendar | No | No | Unknown |
| Nager.Date | Public holidays for more than 90 countries | No | Yes | No |
| Namedays Calendar | Provides namedays for multiple countries | No | Yes | Yes |
| Non-Working Days | Database of ICS files for non working days | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Non-Working Days | Simple REST API for checking working, non-working or short days for Russia, CIS, USA and other | No | Yes | Yes |
| Public Holidays | Data on national, regional, and religious holidays via API | apiKey |
Yes | Yes |
| Russian Calendar | Check if a date is a Russian holiday or not | No | Yes | No |
| UK Bank Holidays | Bank holidays in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland | No | Yes | Unknown |
Cloud Storage & File Sharing
| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AnonFiles | Upload and share your files anonymously | No | Yes | Unknown |
| BayFiles | Upload and share your files | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Box | File Sharing and Storage | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| ddownload | File Sharing and Storage | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Dropbox | File Sharing and Storage | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| File.io | Super simple file sharing, convenient, anonymous and secure | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Filestack | Filestack File Uploader & File Upload API | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| GoFile | Unlimited size file uploads for free | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Google Drive | File Sharing and Storage | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| Gyazo | Save & Share screen captures instantly | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| Imgbb | Simple and quick private image sharing | apiKey |
Yes | Unknown |
| OneDrive | File Sharing and Storage | OAuth |
Yes | Unknown |
| Pantry | Free JSON storage for small projects | No | Yes | Yes |
| Pastebin | Plain Text Storage |
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