Public-APIs

I'm reminded of this little gem: https://hookrace.net/time.gif (Relevant post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14996715) But on the topic: is there actually a dearth of APIs "these days" vs peak Web-2.0, or have the major players just restricted theirs due to abuse, and thus it seems like the whole world of possibilities have veen restricted? One can easily find lists of public apis (e.g https://github.com/n0shake/Public-APIs), but perhaps the video was more about the facilitators, like Yahoo Pipes.

Another list of APIs: https://github.com/abhishekbanthia/Public-APIs

There is a fairly well-known curated list started in 2015, 'free-for-dev' [1], which lists "SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev". There is another list started in 2016, 'stack-on-a-budget' [2], for "services with great free tiers for developers on a budget". A tangentially related list is 'Public-APIs' [3], for APIs "which make their resources available for consumption." [1] https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev [2] https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget [3] https://github.com/abhishekbanthia/Public-APIs