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10 Free Public APIs for developers you need to use for your next projects

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1. New York Times

Provides news

πŸ”—https://developer.nytimes.com/?ref=apilist.fun

2. Cat Facts

Daily cat facts

πŸ”—https://alexwohlbruck.github.io/cat-facts/?ref=apilist.fun

3. GeoName API

Geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge

πŸ”—http://www.geonames.org/export/?ref=apilist.fun

4. Food API

Let’s you access over 330,000 recipes and 80,000 food products

πŸ”—https://spoonacular.com/food-api

5. Fixer. io

Exchange rates and currency conversion

πŸ”—https://fixer.io/?ref=apilist.fun

6. Currencylayer

Exchange rates and currency conversion

πŸ”—https://currencylayer.com/documentation?ref=apilist.fun

7. Adorable Avatars

Generate random cartoon avatars

πŸ”—https://adorable.io/?ref=apilist.fun

8. Ipstack

Locate and identify website visitors by IP address

πŸ”—https://ipstack.com/?ref=apilist.fun

9. Random Facts API

Get random Facts on different topics

πŸ”—https://fungenerators.com/api/facts/?ref=apilist.fun

10. Superhero API

Get all SuperHeroes and Villians data from all universes under a single API

πŸ”—https://superheroapi.com/?ref=apilist.fun

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Al β€’

Don't forget about Star Wars: swapi.dev/

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Chris Hansen β€’

Pokemon!

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Braian Fernandez β€’
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Atulit Anand β€’ β€’ Edited

I wanted to use adorable.io and I got this

Error 1020
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2021-08-18 06:14:03 UTC
Access denied

And this one do not support cors so you can't use it in a project.

Superhero API
Get all SuperHeroes and Villians data from all universes under a single API

superheroapi.com/?ref=apilist.fun

Compilation is great tho.

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Atharva Shirdhankar β€’

Even wheather api by openweather is greatπŸ”₯

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Soter Ramirez β€’

The Rick and Morty API ---> rickandmortyapi.com/

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Syed Abubakar β€’

The movie database must be on the list (TMDB) -> themoviedb.org/documentation/api

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Samy β€’

Thank you for the cool list, I guess you can explore thousands of cool APIs on this directory which I've created a while ago.

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