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Star Wars APIs (SWAPI) 2025

The community run version of the original swapi run by Juriy Bura swapi.dev is down,

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Here's a small curated list of reliable Star Wars APIs run by more community members, forks and their own implementations in more modern setups included.

Our own Tweaked, Simplr Alternative.

JSON files based, Cloudflare Edge-based, ultra-low latency, highly available, forever free service & Typescript SDK.
Simplr SW-API :- https://sw.simplr.sh
Simplr Typescript SWAPI SDK :- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@simplr-sh/swapi-sdk

Drop-in Replacements

Swapi.info:- https://swapi.info/
Swapi.tech:- https://swapi.tech/
Swapi Node:- https://swapi-node.vercel.app/
Swapi Py4e:- https://swapi.py4e.com/
Swapi Pipedream:- https://pipedream.com/apps/swapi

Find more of our work on our Github page @ https://github.com/simplr-sh

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