ARaragonite·Nov 27, 2023Submission
A list of free APIs for use in software and web development
1 points · Open discussiontoddmotto
public-apis
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toddmotto / public-apis
public-apis
A collective list of free APIs
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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12 sourcesPublic APIs: A collective list of free APIs
141 points · Open discussionHere's a fun list of JSON APIs -- https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis
In The Marvel APINice. I'm glad Google is making it easier to find public data sets. I wish that these could be filtered by format, so that you could narrow them to CSV, XML, JSON, KML, etc.
Another nice resource that I've used in the past is 'toddmotto/public-apis' on Github [0].
In the end I would prefer all public data sets to be available over the DAT protocol [1] instead of being hosted only on government or organization websites. A lot of climate data previously made available by the EPA was taken down, and only saved by efforts of volunteers.[2]
[0] https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis
[1] https://datproject.org/
[2] https://www.wired.com/2017/01/rogue-scientists-race-save-cli...
In Google Dataset SearchA list of public JSON APIs for use in web development
270 points · Open discussionA curated list of free public APIs for developers
4 points · Open discussionA collective list of public JSON APIs for use in web development
1 points · Open discussionAsk HN: What are some open REST APIs like Pokéapi?
I'm willing to teach front-end development to some people I know so I'm looking for some APIs like Pokéapi (http://pokeapi.co/), that are easy to deal with and still cool to work with. Some rules I wan't follow:
- Must be a REST API;
- Should not use auth (or some easy one, like passing a simple key on the get params);
- The data should not be too complex (like having to do a lot of requests to fill a view.
I know PublicAPIs (https://www.publicapis.com/) and Todd Motto's public-apis (https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis), but most of them need auth and/or are not RESTful.
Can somebody help me? :)
1 points · Open discussionA list of over 200 open JSON APIs
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