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Introducing FooApi

I am excited to announce a personal project I’ve been working on: fooapi.com. The service isn’t 100% complete yet—some features are still in development—but I plan to share progress and updates with each new release. This project began with the idea of creating a single platform to access data on various topics through different methods. The platform provides realistic dummy data across several categories, which you can use to mock your projects and ideas.

• Users
• Products
• Posts
• Comments
• To-dos
• Images
• Movies
• Songs
• Cities (GeoJSON)
• Countries (GeoJSON geometries)

You can find all the details in fooapi.com/docs

How to use it?

Currently there are two ways to fetch the data:

1. REST endpoints
2. GraphQL queries
3. (Would you like gRPC?)

If you go to fooapi.com/playground you can practice and test your queries

Some useful examples

Here are some practical examples of how to use FooApi.

1) Do you want to create simple placeholder images? easy:

fooapi.com/imgmaker/700/500/ff0000/000000/foooo

With this endpoint, you can customize dimensions (width and height), background color, font color (Hex format), and add a custom message.

/imgmaker/:width/:height/:bg/:fn/:text

More details in fooapi.com/docs/images

2) Do you want data to test your maps? just use:

fetch('https://fooapi.com/api/cities?limit=3')
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data))

The data for this category is real and not artificially generated because, in a real map, we should use actual coordinates, in case you’re wondering.

3) Something simple and useful is fetch a random user:

fetch('https://fooapi.com/api/users/rand')
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data))

Response:

{
    id: "1",
    name: "John",
    lastname: "Doe",
    username: "JohnxDoe11",
    birthdate: "1990-01-01",
    age: 30,
    gender: "Male",
    phone: "[phone]",
    email: "[e-mail]",
    country: "USA",
    height: 170,
    weight: 70
}

4) Are you developing the next social media hit? check:

fetch('https://fooapi.com/api/comments')
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data))

Response:

[
    {
        id: "1",
        comment: "Sunshine and sci-fi sounds like a perfect combo! Enjoy getting lost in your book ",
        reactions: 0,
        postId: "1",
        user: {
            id: "50",
            name: "John",
            lastname: "Smith",
            username: "SmiJohnxD100"
        }
    },
    {
        id:"2",
        comment:"Don't forget the sunscreen!  What sci-fi are you reading?",
        reactions:1,
        postId:"1",
        user:{
             id:"2",
             name:"Akira",
             lastname:"Von Trier",
             username:"alphaVonAkirax853"
          }
    }
    "28 more elements..."
]

Now you are free to explore the data categories.

What do you think?

I’d love to hear your feedback! Remember, you can use this service to mock your apps, designs, models, etc. If you have ideas for new data categories or features, please share them in the comments.

Comments

[Fyodor]

Great project 👍 As @elpidaguy mentioned, if you have the source code available (that is if you plan to keep it open and free), would be interesting to take a look and maybe have the possibility to roll it out locally and test, for instance.

[Kaustubh Joshi]

Good Idea. Is the project open for contribution on GitHub?

[KamalMostafa]

good idea, better if you put OAuth for some of them just to let ppl try it out.

[Ciphernutz]

Worth reading.