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10 Fun APIs to Use For Your Next Project

Henry Boisdequin on December 30, 2020

To put it simply: a web API (application programming interface) is a tool which tells a particular system what you want and gives the response back...

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Liyas Thomas • Dec 31 '20

Great collection. Feel free to use hoppscotch.io to spin up these APIs directly from your browser.

hoppscotch / hoppscotch

👽 Open source API development ecosystem https://hoppscotch.io

Dr-Grey • Jan 2 '21

Thank you for sharing, it'll help. I’ve been mostly using postman.

nnguyenminh • Jan 3 '21 • Edited

Thanks for recommend, it's useful for us.
I have a question, I call an devto API from website hoppscotch and get blocked by CORS policy, how to solve this issue? Thank you.

Liyas Thomas • Jan 3 '21 • Edited

You can try turning on Proxy mode from Settings page or you need to install Hoppscotch browser extension (links in readme) to fix CORS issues.

hoppscotch / hoppscotch-extension

Browser extensions to provide more capabilities to https://hoppscotch.io

nnguyenminh • Jan 3 '21

Thanks I turned it on but it seems like Proxy has an error. Would you might take a look ?

Liyas Thomas • Jan 3 '21

Yeah sure. I'll DM. Follow me to text you.

nightwolfdev • Dec 30 '20

I also like PokeApi and SWAPI.

Henry Boisdequin • Dec 30 '20

They sound cool. I will definitely check them out. Thanks for reading!

Alvaro Montoro • Dec 31 '20

Spotify used to have apps within its app that you could develop in HTML+JS with the Spotify API. I submitted an idea for a trivia game that got initial approval, and a Spotify person even helped me get it ready. Still, they rejected the game because the data from the Spotify API was incorrect and could create confusion in the players. They suggested using Spotify's API for album covers and a little more and another music API for the data (dates, names, etc.), making it really tough for a single dev like me to complete the game. In the end, I abandoned the project (luckily for me because Spotify killed the apps shortly after). This was one of the reasons why I slowed down using 3rd party APIs. Unless they improved their data considerably, I would be wary of using the Spotify API.

Alvaro Montoro • Dec 31 '20

Sorry, my comment came out a bit negative.

The post actually looks interesting, and I am curious about trying a couple of the APIs that you mention. Thanks for sharing!

Henry Boisdequin • Dec 31 '20

Thanks for your insight. Have fun playing with some of the APIs on this list!

José Pinheiro • Dec 30 '20

Hi Henry,

First of all, awesome article!
I recently did a project using NASA API, it's just to add to the list :)

It has some cool things you can do and it's free to use!
api.nasa.gov/

Henry Boisdequin • Dec 30 '20

That’s a great one! Thanks for reading.

Karthikeyan • Dec 30 '20

Well-compiled list.

Found this repo has the list of APIs

github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Henry Boisdequin • Dec 31 '20

That’s a great resource!

tq-bit • Dec 30 '20

I really like the finnhub one, could be a worthy successor to good old yahoo finance.
I'll give that a shot, thanks for the cool idea : ).

Here's one in case you're a Pokemon fan. They have sprites as well, if you want to get visual.
pokeapi.co/

Henry Boisdequin • Dec 30 '20

I think the Finnhub API is the successor to the Yahoo Finance API. The pokeapi is a classic, a great API. Thanks for reading!

Davyd McColl • Jan 2 '21

Thanks! I made currex which is a CLI currency converter between all supported currencies on exchangerate-api.com using the free interface (your own api key is required, but you don't need to pay). I've wanted a CLI currency converter for a while now, so this finally made me do it (:

examples for use: npx currex aud to cad or npx currex 23.99 aud to zar