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7 Unique APIs for your next project

Renaissance Engineer on January 21, 2021

Need some inspiration for a new project? In this article I'll go over what I think are 7 of the coolest APIs around that make it quick and easy to ...
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Marcel Cruz

Awesome list, thanks for sharing!

In case you're interested, I've put up a list of APIs on devresourc.es/tools-and-utilities/..., so feel free to check them out too! :)

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Renaissance Engineer

cool resource, I like the design as well

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Marcel Cruz

Thanks!! 🙏

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z2lai • Edited

Holy cow, that's an insanely large and well-categorized collection if I've ever seen one! Did you develop that site?

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Marcel Cruz

Thanks for the compliment!

Yeah, I had A LOT of bookmarks, so I figured I'd put them all in one place, where everyone else could also use it.

I'm working on making the resources list open-source and available through a public API, so everyone can contribute and use it.

:)

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Fabio Carballo

Couple years afters and I just want to comment what a great resource!

Helped me a lot in my personal projects.

Thanks for this!

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Bruno Gonzales
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Liyas Thomas

Awesome list!
Feel free to use hooppscotch.io to spin up these APIs directly from your browser window itself.

GitHub

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Aidan

"This Shodan thing sounds inter...WHAT THE F**k!"

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Renaissance Engineer

lol, it's definitely a little scary to use sometimes. Pretty crazy how badly secured so many crucial systems are

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z2lai

Some of these are unique alright! And some of these look really valuable, I can't imagine them being free to use for a personal project. The Segment API sounds like an enterprise solution.

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Renaissance Engineer

true, although Segment's main customers are startups and their free tier is catered for that. So if you have a small side project it could be useful. Plus I see some companies even say experience with Segment is a "bonus" skill they would like to see

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trick94

Thank you!!!

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Renaissance Engineer

glad you liked it!

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Madalina Burci

Have you seen the TypingDNA Authentication API?
It's used for recognizing people by the way they type: typingdna.com/authentication-api.html

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Sanjeev Sharma

This is awesome!

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Alwafe

☺️🌹🌹

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KAIDI

Thanks for sharing these gems 💎

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Renaissance Engineer

hope you make something cool with it, post a link if you do so others can see what you make!

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makkentoshh {{☕}}

Wow, I didn't know about SpaceX's API) And Shodan API also not bad 👍

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Renaissance Engineer

shodan is fun to play around with for sure

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Admor Aguilar

Shodan and PeopleLabs are giving me that big brother vibes ngl but it is very cool.

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Renaissance Engineer

for sure, I'm guessing data collection companies will be regulated soon. Most people don't know they exist so they've flown under the radar

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Pratik Kanthi

Point me to an API that brings me inner peace.

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Renaissance Engineer

unfortunately I hear it's still in development hell, people have been working on it for a few thousand years 😟

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Dule Martins

Point me to an API that provides birthday and goodwill message for friends and love ones.

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Renaissance Engineer

Lob API would let you schedule and send them custom post cards or letters
lob.com/

otherwise you could just make your own pretty easily, google a list of messages and put them into a CSV file and then randomly choose a row

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mwangiKibui

Thanks for the resources.

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Renaissance Engineer

you're welcome, hope you find them helpful

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Xing Wang

Love the list!!

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Renaissance Engineer

thanks, glad you liked it

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Adrian Artiles

Thisa.com is a good alternative to PeopleDataLabs that's 1/10 the cost (also has a web UI).
Awesome list! Definitely going to find an excuse to play with WebHose sometime soon.

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Renaissance Engineer

thanks for suggesting Thisa, their pricing is way more transparent. Always surprising how so many companies fly under the radar, pretty much the reason I make posts like these

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Fikra_Dev

simply awesome

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Adrin Amin Salehi

Great list! Thank you for sharing!

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Renaissance Engineer

thanks

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KevinLeeBuchan • Edited

Nice list. Links would have been helpful.

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Renaissance Engineer

good point, I'll add them in

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Jamal Hussain

Thanks for sharing. Amazing stuff. 👍

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Alejandro Brega

Awesome API list, thanks!
You should add:
-Woord: Free Text to Speech API in 50 languages. getwoord.com
-Klazify: Free Domain Categorization & Logo API. klazify.com

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ChriStef

Thank you for the list. It would be nice if you had and the urls to jump into...

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bingege-global

thx, but why first term 'cheat'?

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alover

This is awesome! Valguskett Kiirtestide müük

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halbano

If we are speaking of APIs, this link needs to be here: github.com/public-apis/public-apis