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Hi! Welcome, or welcome back to a new blog post! I'm gonna be sharing with you some awesome FREE apis that you can easily implement into your projects as they don't require any api keys or authentication! Without wasting any more time, let's get started!
Table Of Contents
1. QR tag API
Simple api that allows you to generate QR codes! There are multiple use cases for this, and while you can use it as a fun little feature for your project, it could also work as project itself!
The cool thing about this is that you can specify a lot of perameters like the size of the image, or the format like SVG or PNG.
URL Endpoint: https://qrtag.net/api/qr(_transparent)(_[size]).[png|svg](?url=[URL])
Example: https://www.qrtag.net/api/qr_12.svg?url=https://the-net-blog.netlify.app
Response:
2. EVA - Email Validation API
EVA is a simple API that allows you to identify spam emails or fake emails with blazinlgly fast performance!
URL Endpoint: https://api.eva.pingutil.com/email?email=[email]
Example: `https://api.eva.pingutil.com/email?email=test@mail7.io
Response:
{
"status": "success",
"data": {
"email_address": "test@mail7.io",
"domain": "mail7.io",
"valid_syntax": true,
"disposable": true,
"webmail": false,
"deliverable": true,
"catch_all": true,
"gibberish": false,
"spam": false
}
}
3. GeographQL
Get information about countries, states, cities using GraphQL
URL Endpoint:https://api.geographql.rudio.dev/graphql
Queries: cities, city, state, states, country, countries
Example Response for a city query:
{
"data": {
"city": {
"id": 127759,
"name": "Los Angeles",
"state_id": 4655,
"country_id": 236,
"country_code": "US",
"latitude": 34.05223,
"longitude": -118.24368
}
}
}
4. Image Charts
Create any type of chart image you can think of! I even learnt some new type of charts while going through their documentation.
Might not be the easiest thing to get started with, but this can definitely spice up your websites and in my opinion worth giving a try.
URL Endpoint: https://image-charts.com/chart ?cht=<chart_type> &chd=<chart_data> &chs=<chart_size> &...additional_parameters...
Example URL: https://image-charts.com/chart?chs=700x190&chd=t:60,40&cht=p3&chl=Hello%7CWorld&chan&chf=ps0-0,lg,45,ffeb3b,0.2,f44336,1%7Cps0-1,lg,45,8bc34a,0.2,009688,1
Response:
5. Free Forex API
The Free Forex API gives real-time information about foreign exchange rates, and as the name implies it is of course free to use, but they are strict when it comes to abusing their service.
URL Endpoint: https://www.freeforexapi.com/api/
Example URL: https://www.freeforexapi.com/api/live?pairs=EURGBP,USDJPY
Response:
{
"rates":{
"EURGBP":{
"rate":0.891724,
"timestamp":1532429549281
},
"USDJPY":{
"rate":111.1307,
"timestamp":1532429549281
}
},
"code":200
}
Fun Bonus: EmojiHub
EmojiHub returns random emojis from already filtered categories and groups. As well as get all the emojis from one specific group. Who knows, maybe you might find a good use for this!
URL Endpoint: emojihub.yurace.pro/api/[Option]
Example : emojihub.yurace.pro/api/random
Response:
{
name: "hugging face",
category: "smileys and people",
group: "face positive",
htmlCode: [
"🤗"
],
unicode: [
"U+1F917"
]
}
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Top comments (7)
EmojiHub was migrated from Heroku and now availabe on a new domain:
emojihub.yurace.pro/api/random
All the latest information is always in the repository: github.com/cheatsnake/emojihub
Thanks for the update!
Feel free to comment down below any APIs I missed, I'd be glad check them out!
Note that:
https://api.eva.pingutil.com/email?email=test+foo@example.comfails validation, but is just as valid an address as test@example.com.
Validators will fail "+" emails as they are an alias and permit the user to hold more than one valid account with the service. Keep in mind that your service doesn't have to support them. But, if you choose to deny them then please let your user know that aliased emails are not supported.
I agree, but the email address is a valid email since rfc822. So both test@example.com and test+foo@... should pass as this validator
is not really validating the existence of the email address (e.g. via smtp vrfy as example.com doesn't have an email server). It is just validating (supposedly) the address format.
I agree, I'm simply stating that the email format with '+' is valid. But, the original poster should simply notify the user that the email is against policy and why if they intended to block aliased email results. However, the original poster mentioned no such intention. I left a general response to server a note for others who may intend to block these perfectly valid email addresses.