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15 Fun APIs For Your Next Project

Biplov on May 04, 2020

Maybe you want to make something cool for the web using some APIs. Maybe you are tired from building all the to-do lists and calculators and want t...
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Robert

Great!

Another cool set of APIs github.com/public-apis/public-apis

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Biplov

Yeah, that is an excellent list of APIs! I included links to that at the end of the post.

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Sahil Nare

Wow, that's pretty cool. Thanks!

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Rohith Gilla

Hey amazing collection, btw there is this API with which you can create memes.
api.imgflip.com/
memeflip.netlify.com/

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Juan Sifontez

Wow!! Thanks for this Rohith, is Amazing!!

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Rohith Gilla

🙌

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Diogo Brito

Nice list!
Also those are quite funny:
http.cat/
placegoat.com/

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Liyas Thomas

Great collection. Feel free to use open source API testing tool: Hoppscotch to spin up these APIs on-the-go directly from your browser window.

GitHub logo hoppscotch / hoppscotch

👽 Open source API development ecosystem https://hoppscotch.io

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Cherny

best post ever!

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Logan

I tried out the Marvel API and it doesn't look like it's been updated since 2014. I attempted to contact support and the submit button did not submit. If anyone is able to get it working, I'd sure like to know how.

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Mohd Danish

You can get more here. public-apis.io

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Aung Kyaw Hein

Dog API
dog.ceo

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Godwin Agedah

Heres a movie api developers.themoviedb.org/3/gettin...
You can checkout my project for inspiration
ngmovieapp.herokuapp.com/

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Felix Wolfsteller

For some of those example (and tons more) you can use Faker (github.com/faker-ruby/faker) (if in ruby-land). This saves you the "headache" of HTTP calls.

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Huzaifa Rasheed • Edited

I actually used the Advice Slip a while back with a combo of Pexel's API. It's a little old and I haven't looked at it much but here is the link anyways.

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Douglas Pinheiro Goulart

The Tronald Dump API is amazing 😃. I'm thinking about coding a similar one about our dear president, Bozonaro. The database will be FILLED with content.

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Randy L

Very nice list! Now, if I can get my python requests to work...

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Maureen T'O

Wow I didn’t know these existed! Thanks for this post!

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Victor Magarlamov

Coll stuff! Thanks!

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Felipe Cerda

Very cool, thanks!

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webstuff

Cool stuff

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Juan Sifontez

Good APIs. I definitely going to build a project with a couple of them. Thanks!

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Raphaël Lemaitre

Nice list! You can add SWAPI 🙂

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Vincent

Also the PixLab API for all your images/video analysis, modification & processing. pixlab.io/cmdls

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Deon Rich

Excelent for a simple GUI project!

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