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Tapajyoti Bose
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7 Free Public APIs you will love as a developer💖

1. JSON Placeholder

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JSON Placeholder is a service that provides you with fake online REST APIs for testing and prototyping. This is a go-to API for every developer.

2. Google Translate

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Google has a plethora of APIs, but most of them are paid. Thankfully, the Translate API provides free translations for 100+ languages, up to 500k characters per month.

3. Open Weather Map

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Need to look into the crystal ball & predict the weather? Open Weather Map is a service that does just that & provides you easy access to their data via their API.

4. REST Countries

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REST Countries is a service that provides you with information about countries via a RESTful API. It provides you with data such as country name, capital, population, area, currencies, languages, and more.

5. IP API

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IP API is a service that provides you with information about an IP address. It exposes country, region, city, latitude, longitude, timezone, currency, and myriad other data.

People can be seen extensively using this API (https://ipapi.co/json) while building anything that requires the user's country code.

6. Random Data API

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Random Data API is a service that provides you with random data. It is similar to JSON Placeholder, but provides random data, unlike JSON Placeholder, which delivers static data and has a few more data categories like Banks, Credit Cards & Beers up its sleeve.

7. The Pokemon API

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The Pokemon API is a simple API for Pokemon characters, abilities, moves, etc. It has numerous endpoints for various purposes, for example: fetching characters, abilities, etc.

Recently, a GraphQL API has also been introduced, which is an incredible addition.

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Timothy_Odugbemi

Thanks so much!

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Chibuzor Ojukwu

Nice one

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Marcos Ramírez

Thanks, very useful

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adriens

Same here !!!!

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adriens

Alreay have project ideas about Pokemons.... XD

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adriens • Edited

Pokemon v2 API has some issues :

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adriens

(data) Story telling... one of my greatest hobbies !
When achieved, I'll let you know for sure <3

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Fred Pallesen

As far as I can see Google Translate is NOT free. It is just a very good offer ... but ultimately not free.

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Tapajyoti Bose

They provide $10 credits each month, whoch translates to 500k free characters/month

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André ldev

Here is a list of APIs that really worked for a business brasilapi.com.br

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YURIIDE

Like!

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React Hunter

Thank you

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Devarshi Shimpi

Thanks for sharing!!

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Tommy

One of my favorite APIs to use a developer is an avatar generator. You can find some examples here: stefanjudis.com/blog/apis-to-gener...

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Code of Relevancy

Thank you for this apis..

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