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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

🔗https://developer.nytimes.com/?ref=apilist.fun

2. Cat Facts

Daily cat facts

🔗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

🔗http://www.geonames.org/export/?ref=apilist.fun

4. Food API

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

🔗https://spoonacular.com/food-api

5. Fixer. io

Exchange rates and currency conversion

🔗https://fixer.io/?ref=apilist.fun

6. Currencylayer

Exchange rates and currency conversion

🔗https://currencylayer.com/documentation?ref=apilist.fun

7. Adorable Avatars

Generate random cartoon avatars

🔗https://adorable.io/?ref=apilist.fun

8. Ipstack

Locate and identify website visitors by IP address

🔗https://ipstack.com/?ref=apilist.fun

9. Random Facts API

Get random Facts on different topics

🔗https://fungenerators.com/api/facts/?ref=apilist.fun

10. Superhero API

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

🔗https://superheroapi.com/?ref=apilist.fun

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Al

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

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Chris Hansen

Pokemon!

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Braian Fernandez
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Atulit Anand • Edited

I wanted to use adorable.io and I got this

Error 1020
Ray ID: *************** •
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

Even wheather api by openweather is great🔥

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Soter Ramirez

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

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Syed Abubakar

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

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Samy

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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