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A collective list of free JSON APIs for use in web development.

A JSON encoding of all entries can be found here.

For information on contributing to this project, please see the contributing guide.

Please note a passing build status indicates all listed APIs are available since the last update. A failing build status indicates that 1 or more services may be unavailable at the moment.

Index

Animals

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Dogs Based on the Stanford Dogs Dataset No Yes Go!
IUCN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species apiKey No Go!
Petfinder Adoption apiKey Yes Go!
RescueGroups Adoption No Yes Go!

Anime

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
AniList AniList Anime OAuth No Go!
Jikan Unofficial MyAnimeList API No Yes Go!
Kitsu Anime discovery platform OAuth Yes Go!
Studio Ghibli Resources from Studio Ghibli films No Yes Go!

Anti-Malware

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Certly Certly Link/Domain Flagging apiKey Yes Go!
Google Safe Browsing Google Link/Domain Flagging apiKey Yes Go!
Metacert Metacert Link Flagging apiKey Yes Go!
VirusTotal VirusTotal File/URL Analysis apiKey Yes Go!
Web Of Trust (WOT) Website reputation apiKey Yes Go!

Art & Design

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Dribbble Design OAuth No Go!
Harvard Art Museums Art apiKey No Go!
Icons8 Icons OAuth Yes Go!
Noun Project Icons OAuth No Go!
Rijksmuseum Art apiKey Yes Go!

Books

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
British National Bibliography Books No No Go!
Goodreads Books No Yes Go!
Google Books Books OAuth Yes Go!

Business

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
mailgun Email Service apiKey Yes Go!
markerapi Trademark Search No No Go!

Calendar

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Church Calendar Catholic liturgical calendar No No Go!
Holidays Historical data regarding holidays apiKey Yes Go!
LectServe Protestant liturgical calendar No No Go!
Non-Working Days Database of ICS files for non working days No Yes Go!

Cloud Storage & File Sharing

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Box File Sharing and Storage OAuth Yes Go!
Dropbox File Sharing and Storage OAuth Yes Go!
Google Drive File Sharing and Storage OAuth Yes Go!
OneDrive File Sharing and Storage OAuth Yes Go!

Currency Exchange

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Currencylayer Exchange rates and currency conversion apiKey Yes Go!
Fixer.io Exchange rates and currency conversion No Yes Go!

Data Access

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
18F US Federal Government /Developer Program No No Go!
Abbreviation Get abbreviations and meanings X-Mashape-Key Yes Go!
CARTO Location Information Prediction apiKey Yes Go!
Callook.info United States ham radio callsigns No Yes Go!
Celebinfo Celebrity information X-Mashape-Key Yes Go!
Colorado Data Engine Formatted and geolocated Colorado public data No Yes Go!
Colorado Information Marketplace Colorado State Government Open Data No Yes Go!
Data USA US Public Data No Yes Go!
Dronestream Tracks United States drone strikes No Yes Go!
fonoApi Mobile Device Description No Yes Go!
Open Government, Australia Australian Government Open Data No Yes Go!
Open Government, USA United States Government Open Data No Yes Go!
Open Government, Canada Canadian Government Open Data No No Go!
Open Government Data, India Indian Government Open Data apiKey Yes Go!
Open Government, New Zealand New Zealand Government Open Data No Yes Go!
Pearson Dictionary Data apiKey No Go!
Prague Opendata Prague City Open Data No No Go!
Quandl Stock Market Data No Yes Go!
Represent by Open North Find Canadian Government Representatives No Yes Go!
Scoop.it Content Curation Service apiKey No Go!
Teleport Quality of Life Data No Yes Go!
Wikipedia Mediawiki Encyclopedia No Yes Go!
Wordnik Dictionary Data No No Go!
Yelp Find Local Business OAuth Yes Go!

Data Validation

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
languagelayer Language detection No Yes Go!
Lob.com US Address Verification apiKey Yes Go!
mailboxlayer Email address validation No Yes Go!
numverify Phone number validation No Yes Go!
vatlayer VAT number validation No Yes Go!

Development

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Adorable Avatars Generate random cartoon avatars No Yes Go!
APIs.guru Wikipedia for Web APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger specs for public APIs No Yes Go!
BetterMeta Return a site's meta tags in JSON format X-Mashape-Key Yes Go!
Changelogs.md Structured changelog metadata from open source projects No Yes Go!
CDNJS Library info on CDNJS No Yes Go!
Faceplusplus A tool to detect face OAuth Yes Go!
Genderize.io Determines a gender from a first name No Yes Go!
Github - User Data Pull public information for a user's github No Yes Go!
Gitter Chat for GitHub OAuth Yes Go!
HackerRank Compile source code and run against a set of provided test cases apiKey Yes Go!
Hipster Ipsum Generates Hipster Ipsum text No No Go!
IPify A simple IP Address API No Yes Go!
JSON 2 JSONP Convert JSON to JSONP (on-the-fly) for easy cross-domain data requests using client-side JavaScript No Yes Go!
JSONbin.io Free JSON storage service. Ideal for small scale Web apps, Websites and Mobile apps. No Yes Go!
JSONPlaceholder Fake data for testing and prototyping No No Go!
Judge0 API Compile and run source code No Yes Go!
Let's Validate Uncovers the technologies used on websites and URL to thumbnail No Yes Go!
LiveEdu Live Coding Streaming OAuth Yes Go!
Lorem Text Generates Lorem Ipsum text X-Mashape-Key Yes Go!
Loripsum The "lorem ipsum" generator that doesn't suck No No Go!
Myjson A simple JSON store for your web or mobile app No No Go!
Plino Spam filtering system No Yes Go!
Public APIs A collective list of free JSON APIs for use in web development No Yes Go!
Random Word Generate random word No No Go!
RandomUser Generates random user data No Yes Go!
ReqRes A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests No Yes Go!
RoboHash Generate random robot/alien avatars No Yes Go!
StackExchange Q&A forum for developers OAuth Yes Go!
Stormpath User Authentication apiKey Yes Go!
UI Names Generate random fake names No Yes Go!
Verse Check what's the latest version of your favorite open-source project No Yes Go!

Documents & Productivity

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
File.io File Sharing No Yes Go!
pdflayer API HTML/URL to PDF No Yes Go!
Pocket Bookmarking service OAuth Yes Go!
PrexView Data from XML or JSON to PDF, HTML or Image apiKey Yes Go!
Todoist Todo Lists OAuth Yes Go!
Wunderlist Todo Lists OAuth Yes Go!

Environment

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
AirVisual Air quality and weather data apiKey Yes Go!
OpenAQ Open air quality data apiKey Yes Go!
PM2.5.in Air quality of China apiKey No Go!

Finance

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Barchart OnDemand Stock, Futures, and Forex Market Data apiKey Yes Go!
CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index No No Go!
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Financial services consumer complains data apiKey Yes Go!

Food & Drink

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
BigOven Recipe Search X-Mashape-Key No Go!
BreweryDB Beer apiKey No Go!
Edamam Recipe Search apiKey Yes Go!
Food2Fork Recipe Search apiKey No Go!
LCBO Alcohol apiKey Yes Go!
PunkAPI Brewdog Beer Recipes No Yes Go!
Recipe Puppy Food No No Go!
TacoFancy Community-driven taco database No No Go!
TheCocktailDB Cocktail Recipes No No Go!
The Report of the Week Food & Drink Reviews No Yes Go!
Yummly Find food recipes No Yes Go!
Zomato Discover restaurants apiKey Yes Go!

Fraud Prevention

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Whitepages Pro Global identity verification with phone, address, email, and IP apiKey Yes Go!
Whitepages Pro Phone reputation to detect spammy phones apiKey Yes Go!
Whitepages Pro Get an owner’s name, address, demographics based on the phone number apiKey Yes Go!
Whitepages Pro Phone number validation, line_type, carrier append apiKey Yes Go!
Whitepages Pro Get normalized physical address, residents, address type, and validity. apiKey Yes Go!

Games & Comics

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Battle.net Blizzard Entertainment No Yes Go!
Battlefield 4 Battlefield 4 Information No Yes Go!
Chuck Norris Database Jokes No No Go!
Clash of Clans Clash of Clans Game Information No Yes Go!
Clash Royale Clash Royale Game Information No Yes Go!
Comic Vine Comics No Yes Go!
Deck of Cards Deck of Cards No No Go!
Destiny The Game Bungie Platform API apiKey Yes Go!
Eve Online Third-Party Developer Documentation OAuth Yes Go!
Giant Bomb Video Games No Yes Go!
Guild Wars 2 Guild Wars 2 Game Information apiKey Yes Go!
Jservice Jeopardy Question Database No No Go!
Magic The Gathering Magic The Gathering Game Information No No Go!
Marvel Marvel Comics apiKey No Go!
Minecraft Minecraft server info & user info) No Yes Go!
Open Trivia Trivia Questions No Yes Go!
PandaScore E-sports games and results apiKey Yes Go!
Pokéapi Pokémon Information No No Go!
Qriusity Quiz/Trivia Questions No Yes Go!
Riot Games League of Legends Game Information apiKey Yes Go!
Steam Steam Client Interaction OAuth Yes Go!

Geocoding

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
adresse.data.gouv.fr Address database of France. geocoding and reverse. No Yes Go!
Bing Maps Create/customize digital maps based on Bing Maps data apiKey Yes Go!
Geocode.xyz Provides worldwide forward/reverse geocoding, batch geocoding and geoparsing No Yes Go!
GeoNames Place names and other geographical data No No Go!
GéoApi French geographical data No Yes Go!
Google Maps Create/customize digital maps based on Google Maps data apiKey Yes Go!
IP 2 Country Map an IP to a country No Yes Go!
IP Address Details Find geolocation with ip address No Yes Go!
IP Location Find IP address location information No Yes Go!
IP Vigilante Free IP Geolocation API No Yes Go!
Mapbox Create/customize beautiful digital maps apiKey Yes Go!
Mapzen Search Open Source & Open Data Global Geocoding Service apiKey Yes Go!
Mexico Mexico RESTful zip codes API No Yes Go!
One Map 2.0, Singapore Singapore Land Authority REST API services for Singapore addresses apiKey Yes Go!
OnWater Determine if a lat/lon is on water or land No Yes Go!
OpenCage Forward and reverse geocoding using open data No Yes Go!
OpenStreetMap Navigation, geolocation and geographical data OAuth No Go!
PostcodeData.nl Provide geolocation data based on postcode for Dutch addresses No No Go!
Postcodes.io Postcode lookup & Geolocation for the UK No Yes Go!
REST Countries Get information about countries via a RESTful API No Yes Go!
Utah AGRC Utah Web API for geocoding Utah addresses apiKey Yes Go!
ViaCep Brazil RESTful zip codes API No Yes Go!

Health

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Diabetes Logging and retrieving diabetes information No No Go!
Flutrack Influenza-like symptoms with geotracking No No Go!
Makeup Makeup Information No No Go!
Medicare Access to the data from the CMS - medicare.gov No Yes Go!
Nutritionix Worlds largest verified nutrition database apiKey Yes Go!
openFDA Public FDA data about drugs, devices, and foods No Yes Go!
USDA Nutrients National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference No Yes Go!

Machine Learning

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
API.AI Natural Language Processing apiKey Yes Go!
Clarifai Computer Vision OAuth Yes Go!
Cleverbot Web chat bot apiKey Yes Go!
Keen IO Data Analytics apiKey Yes Go!
Unplugg Forecasting API for timeseries data apiKey Yes Go!
Wit.ai Natural Language Processing OAuth Yes Go!

Math

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Newton Symbolic and Arithmetic Math Calculator No Yes Go!
Numbers API Facts about numbers No No Go!

Music

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Bandsintown Music Events No Yes Go!
Deezer Music OAuth No Go!
Discogs Music OAuth Yes Go!
Genius Crowdsourced lyrics and music knowledge OAuth Yes Go!
Jamendo Music OAuth Yes Go!
iTunes Search Software products No Yes Go!
LastFm Music No No Go!
Mixcloud Music No Yes Go!
MusicBrainz Music No Yes Go!
Musikki Music No Yes Go!
Musixmatch Music apiKey Yes Go!
Songsterr Provides guitar, bass and drums tabs and chords No Yes Go!
Soundcloud Music No Yes Go!
Spotify Music OAuth Yes Go!
Vagalume Crowdsourced lyrics and music knowledge apiKey Yes Go!

News

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
New York Times Provides news apiKey Yes Go!
News API Headlines currently published on a range of news sources and blogs apiKey Yes Go!
The Guardian Access all the content the Guardian creates, categorised by tags and section apiKey Yes Go!

Open Source projects

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Countly Countly web analytics No No Go!
Drupal.org Drupal.org No Yes Go!
Libraries.io Open source software libraries apiKey Yes Go!

Personality

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
chucknorris.io JSON API for hand curated Chuck Norris jokes No Yes Go!
Forismatic Inspirational Quotes No No Go!
icanhazdadjoke The largest selection of dad jokes on the internet No Yes Go!
Medium Community of readers and writers offering unique perspectives on ideas. OAuth Yes Go!
Quotes on Design Inspirational Quotes No Yes Go!
Traitify Assess, collect, and analyze Personality No Yes Go!
tronalddump.io Api & web archive for the things Donald Trump has said No Yes Go!

Photography

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
500px Photography Community OAuth Yes Go!
Flickr Flickr Services OAuth Yes Go!
Gfycat Jiffier GIFs OAuth Yes Go!
Giphy Get all your gifs No Yes Go!
Imgur Images OAuth Yes Go!
ScreenShotLayer URL 2 Image No Yes Go!
Unsplash Photography OAuth Yes Go!
PlaceKitten Resizable kitten placeholder images No Yes Go!

Science

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
arcsecond.io Multiple astronomy data sources No Yes Go!
Fedger.io Query machine intelligence data No Yes Go!
inspirehep.net High Energy Physics info. system No Yes Go!
Launch Library Upcoming Space Launches No Yes Go!
Minor Planet Center Asterank.com Information No No Go!
NASA NASA data, including imagery No Yes Go!
Open Notify ISS astronauts, current location, etc No No Go!
Sunrise and Sunset Sunset and sunrise times for a given latitude and longitude. No Yes Go!
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program Earthquakes data real-time No Yes Go!
USGS Water Services Water quality and level info for rivers and lakes No Yes Go!
World Bank World Data No No Go!

Security

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
AXFR Database AXFR public database No No Go!
UK Police UK Police data No Yes Go!

Shopping

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
eBay Sell and Buy on eBay OAuth Yes Go!

Social

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Discord Make bots for Discord, integrate Discord onto an external platform OAuth Yes Go!
DonReach Social Count Get the social share count of a URL from every major social network No Yes Go!
Facebook Facebook Login, Share on FB, Social Plugins, Analytics and more OAuth Yes Go!
Foursquare Interact with Foursquare users and places (geolocation-based checkins, photos, tips, events, etc) OAuth Yes Go!
Fuck Off as a Service Asks someone to fuck off No Yes Go!
Full Contact Get Social Media profiles and contact Information OAuth Yes Go!
HackerNews Social news for CS and entrepreneurship No Yes Go!
Instagram Instagram Login, Share on Instagram, Social Plugins and more OAuth Yes Go!
LinkedIn The foundation of all digital integrations with LinkedIn OAuth Yes Go!
Meetup.com Data about Meetups from Meetup.com apiKey Yes Go!
Telegram MTProto Read and write Telegram data OAuth Yes Go!
Telegram bot Simplified HTTP version of the MTProto API for bots OAuth Yes Go!
Pinterest The world's catalog of ideas OAuth Yes Go!
PWRTelegram bot Boosted version of the Telegram bot API OAuth Yes Go!
Reddit Homepage of the internet OAuth Yes Go!
Slack Team Instant Messaging OAuth Yes Go!
Tumblr Read and write Tumblr Data OAuth Yes Go!
Twitch Game Streaming API OAuth Yes Go!
Twitter Read and write Twitter data OAuth Yes Go!
vk Read and write vk data OAuth Yes Go!

Sports & Fitness

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Cartola FC The Cartola FC API serves to check the partial points of your team. No Yes Go!
City Bikes City Bikes around the world No No Go!
Ergast F1 F1 data from the beginning of the world championships in 1950 No No Go!
Fitbit Fitbit Information OAuth Yes Go!
Football-Data.org Football Data No No Go!
JCDecaux Bike JCDecaux's self-service bicycles apiKey Yes Go!
Cricket Live Scores Live cricket scores X-Mashape-Key Yes Go!
NFL Arrests NFL Arrest Data No No Go!
Pro Motocross The RESTful AMA Pro Motocross lap times for every racer on the start gate No No Go!
Strava Connect with athletes, activities and more OAuth Yes Go!
UFC Data Ultimate Fighting Championship information for events and fighters No No Go!
Wger Workout manager data as exercises, muscles or equipment apiKey Yes Go!

Tracking

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Postmon An API to query Brazilian ZIP codes and orders easily, quickly and free No No Go!
Sweden Provides information about parcels in transport apiKey No Go!

Transportation

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Amadeus Travel Innovation Sandbox Travel Search - Limited usage apiKey Yes Go!
Bay Area Rapid Transit Stations and predicted arrivals for BART apiKey No Go!
Community Transit Transitland API No Yes Go!
Goibibo API for travel search apiKey Yes Go!
Indian Railways Indian Railways Information apiKey No Go!
Navitia The open API for building cool stuff with transport data apiKey Yes Go!
The Nomad List A list of the best places to live/work remotely No Yes Go!
Schiphol Airport Schiphol apiKey Yes Go!
TransitLand Transit Aggregation No Yes Go!
Transport for Atlanta, US Marta No No Go!
Transport for Auckland, New Zealand Auckland Transport API No Yes Go!
Transport for Belgium Belgian transport API No Yes Go!
Transport for Berlin, Germany Third-party VBB API No Yes Go!
Transport for Boston, US MBTA API No No Go!
Transport for Budapest, Hungary Budapest public transport API No Yes Go!
Transport for Chicago, US CTA No No Go!
Transport for Czech Republic Czech transport API No Yes Go!
Transport for Denver, US RTD No No Go!
Transport for Finland Finnish transport API No Yes Go!
Transport for Germany Deutsche Bahn (DB) API apiKey No Go!
Transport for India India Public Transport API apiKey Yes Go!
Transport for London, England TfL API No Yes Go!
Transport for Madrid, Spain Madrid BUS transport API apiKey No Go!
Transport for Minneapolis, US NexTrip API OAuth No Go!
Transport for The Netherlands NS, only trains apiKey No Go!
Transport for The Netherlands OVAPI, country-wide public transport No Yes Go!
Transport for New York City, US MTA apiKey No Go!
Transport for Norway Norwegian transport API No No Go!
Transport for Ottawa, Canada OC Transpo next bus arrival API No No Go!
Transport for Paris, France RATP Open Data API No No Go!
Transport for Paris, France Live schedules made simple No No Go!
Transport for Philadelphia, US SEPTA APIs No No Go!
Transport for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Prefeitura do Rio (City Hall) No No Go!
Transport for São Paulo, Brazil SPTrans OAuth No Go!
Transport for Sweden Public Transport consumer OAuth Yes Go!
Transport for Switzerland Swiss public transport API No Yes Go!
Transport for Switzerland Official Swiss Public Transport Open Data apiKey Yes Go!
Transport for Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Metro apiKey Yes Go!
Transport for Toronto, Canada TTC No Yes Go!
Transport for Vancouver, Canada TransLink OAuth Yes Go!
Transport for U.S. (multiple locations) NextBus API No No Go!
Transport for Victoria, AU PTV API apiKey Yes Go!
Transport for Washington, US Washington Metro transport API OAuth Yes Go!
Uber Request Uber rides, reach riders, transport things, and reward drivers OAuth Yes Go!
WhereIsMyTransport Platform for public transport data in emerging cities OAuth Yes Go!

University

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Universities List University names, countries and domains No Yes Go!

Vehicle

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Vehicles Lot of vehicles information apiKey No Go!
Brazilian Vehicles and Prices Vehicles information from Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas - Fipe No Yes Go!
NHTSA Vehicles NHTSA Product Information Catalog and Vehicle Listing No Yes Go!

Video

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
An API of Ice And Fire Game Of Thrones API No Yes Go!
Dailymotion Dailymotion Developer API OAuth Yes Go!
Netflix Roulette Netflix database No Yes Go!
Ron Swanson Quotes Television No Yes Go!
SWAPI Star Wars Information No Yes Go!
TMDb Community-based movie data apiKey Yes Go!
TVMaze TV Show Data No No Go!
Vimeo Vimeo Developer API OAuth Yes Go!
YouTube Add YouTube functionality to your sites and apps. OAuth Yes Go!

Weather

API Description Auth HTTPS Link
Dark Sky Weather apiKey Yes Go!
MetaWeather Weather No Yes Go!
OpenWeatherMap Weather apiKey No Go!
Weatherbit Weather apiKey Yes Go!
Wunderground Weather apiKey Yes Go!
Yahoo! Weather Weather No Yes Go!

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