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Free and Fake APIs You Can Use to Practice Front End Development

John Au-Yeung on February 23, 2020

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Médéric Burlet • Feb 24 '20

Any api is a very good one as it compiles information of a lot of open api
any-api.com/

I think you could include NASA API it has a lot of data and information available to the public:
api.nasa.gov/

Open Weather is also a good one:
openweathermap.org/api

For any Anime Fan I would recommend:
animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/...
This is a good one as it lets you get movie like information, covers, actors, and more.

Last but not least the must have of all APIs
pokeapi.co/

John Au-Yeung • Feb 25 '20

NASA's API is pretty high quality. Lots of photos URLs, data for near-earth objects, etc.

Open Weather API also a good free weather API to practice with.

The other ones are also good finds.

Shannon Crabill • Feb 28 '20

Dog CEO is the best.

Here are some other fun APIs I found recently.

John Au-Yeung • Feb 28 '20

Thanks. These are good for practice.

Nikolay • Apr 5 '20

If you need to design an API, for example, create custom methods, generate and save some data on the server I can recommend fake.rest
It's a project-based service, with a variety of settings for HTTP response.

John Au-Yeung • Apr 5 '20

That looks good. I see that it can seed data according to the docs, which makes it even better.

Creating data by hand is awful.

Nikolay • Apr 5 '20

Thanks.
Yes, the data can be seeded in Store Arrays and used in CRUD operations or could be regenerated dynamically for each response if required.

Chris Walters (He/Him) • Feb 24 '20

One tool I have been using is crudpi.io/

It lets you create a standalone CRUD API. I like this in particular because it lets you format your JSON return however you want it, and it also includes some auto-values to give you sample data (Random First and Last names for example).

Good read!

John Au-Yeung • Feb 25 '20

Thanks. Your site looks good. If it has auth built-in, then it's even better.

David • Jun 11 '24

Hi guys, you can try DevApiService. I discover it a few week ago and I'm delighted because this online tool has a lot of functions that I need. Some of them are: mock API, fake API, sort the results of the API, pagination, token authentication, share APIs with other users, etc. An interesting functionality is that you are the owner of the data you upload and you can modify it all you want without limits.

Vikram Sharma • Mar 1 '20

For those developing news apps (like I did) this list of news apis offers many free apis.

John Au-Yeung • Mar 1 '20

These are good. I would also add the New York Times API to the list.

Any of them give full content for free?

Vikram Sharma • Mar 1 '20

I don't think anyone gives full content for free.

Douglas Fugazi • Feb 24 '20

Cool recommendations 👍😊

John Au-Yeung • Feb 24 '20

Thanks

Sally • Feb 26 '20

I'm rather fond of the US National Parks one. There's tons of information per park, including alerts, which are frequently updated and sometimes contain warnings about bears. Win win.