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12 APIs that you as a developer will love it 💖

The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️ on July 05, 2022

Are you starting a new project, learning a new technology, or building a new feature and you already have everything figured out, how you are going...
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Liyas Thomas

This is very informative. Great collection of APIs.

If anyone like to spin up any of these RESTful APIs online - checkout Hoppscotch.io - helps to make requests directly from the browser.

GitHub logo hoppscotch / hoppscotch

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

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Hi Liyas!
Thanks!! And thanks for the suggestion!

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

:) as expected

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Lior Nitz

Great Article! thanks!
We just launched the first ever soundscapes API for VR and you're all invited for a FREE ACCOUNT. soundscape.city
Get soundscapes by weather, time of day, environments, for menus and more!

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AquaDrehz

Interesting. When does the new musics would be added?

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Lior Nitz

we constantly expand the soundscapes we stream via the API, you can start using it now for free at soundscape.city

Cheers!

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FileX

For your 11. listing I personally prefer github.com/factbook/factbook.json - if you just need a collection of bare facts - as far as I know this repository is backed by the CIA and pretty straight forward. ✌️

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Didn'tDidnt know about this one! Thanks! :)

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Dedé Menezes

Awesome list Mermaid, thanks for sharing!!

If you don't mind I have a brand new suggestion that some people might like as well ;) I just released this Harry Potter API yesterday! I came to write an article about it and just stumble upon your article, life is beautiful :)
here's the link: theboywholivedapi.fun/

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Sara Palacio

Thank you for all the work!
I'm gonna use it.

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Elaine Delgado

Fantastic!!! Thanks a lot! -

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Wow! Love it! This is amazing! You had so much work doing this! Thanks!!

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development-vargamarcel

If you just want an interface to view your graphql endpoint.
graphboarder.netlify.app/queries

Working on it, please give feedback. Have fun

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Camille Rakotoarisoa

Great !
You can also try FakeJobs API which is an easy-to-use REST API that offers you free fictitious job offers to integrate into your test applications 😜 :

fakejobsapi.camillerakoto.fr/

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Hi Camille! Thanks for sharing!!

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Aziz Kaukawala

Damn! This is so awesome! 😍 Perfect to get hands dirty on weekends! ✨

Thanks!

Happy Coding

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Totally Aziz! The hard part is.. which one to choose? 😃

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Aziz Kaukawala

For me, its PokeAPI for sure this weekend! 😋

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Alex Walker

Thanks defiantly trying a few

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Yongchang He

Love the pictures!

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Thank you Yongchang!

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Chris Jarvis

Nice article, I didn't know about the DEV Api. I might need to add that to my site.

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Yes!! It's awesome and very easy to use! It's like you have your own dev inside your website. But fully style customizable :P

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Jonas Petri

Nice list! I’ve used several of these in the past and they’re all great!

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Elijah Trillionz

I had no idea dev.to has an API.
Thanks for the article, it is very well written.

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Rebecca Rosol

Awesome!

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Humberto David Esquerra

Good collection!

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Stu Bowles

Thanks!

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Mohammad Javed

Awesome list - thanks for the article.

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Lucía Calisaya

I'm interested in NASA API! Thank you for the list! :)

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Thank you Lucia!

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Andy Piper

There are 9 Star Wars films... wish they would update that.

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Thomas Bnt ☕

Hello ! For Unsplash, you need API key to request contents 😄

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Hi Thomas! Yes you are totally right! Great catch! My mistake :)

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Roge

I was looking for it, thank you!

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Thank you Roge! :)

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Enrique

A thousand thanks! I'm just training my JavaScript fetching skills, super useful to me 😀

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Kushal Magar • Edited

Thanks for sharing this awesome list. Really helpful.

We are working on a cloud-based video editing API that allows you to manipulate videos through API requests. If anyone is interested, check us out here shotstack.io/docs/api/#shotstack :)

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Oleksii Borisenko

Cool list, thanks! New OpenAI API can help to create or edit new images; it also helps with copyrights, as OpenAI assigns the creator all its rights. Unpacking new OpenAI

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LyAVALE95

This is amazing thank you, for those who wants to create or use medical ref in a project here's one API: rapidapi.com/humanapi/api/human

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Ajitkumar Vaghela

Amazing

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Wulfi

Great collection of APIs, planning to use Unsplash and Dev.to

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Farhana Binte Hasan

Just awesome. I'm gonna use it.

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Martin Pagels • Edited

Awesome list. If someone interested in the Rick and Morty API, I created a React exercise for my web dev students. Take a look and try it out.
github.com/mpagels/react-and-morty

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Luis Paulo Dobreira

If possible give a look to my API Free-To-Play Games Database API: freetogame.com/api-doc

It's free! And no accounts or keys required.

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Chuck Fischer

A male SQL query walks into a bar
It approaches two female tables and asks "Can I join you?

hehehe

subscribe for more SQL humor!

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Michael Richins

I hadn't heard of the Star Wars or Rick and Morty APIs. Thank you so much for this post

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Dariusz Cichorski

Great list! 🔥
Thanks and keep up the good work 💪

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Toby Parent

I find the Mockaroo API generator (mockaroo.com/) to be wildly useful, and fast.

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AmberM16

Looking forward to buliding with the Pokeapi! My kids love Pokemon so I want to build him an online pokedex maybe even build him a real one that connects to this api later on!

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Tome Karkalashev

Great Apis! Thanks for sharing!
I'd like to sharing one more API - Public APIs (api.publicapis.org/).
Hope it would be helpful. Nice!

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Parth

Amazing stuff. Gonna work on one someday. Impressed especially with NASA and SWAPI!!!

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xxyopen

Thank you for sharing!

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Rafael Pinto da Silva

wow! cool ;) - thanks for the suggestion!

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Front-end developer

Just a simple endpoint to get a list of inspirational quotes type.fit/api/quotes

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Hudson Atwell

Thanks, great list!

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Tygas

Ukraine war news: rapidapi.com/davidbenjaminnovotny/...

 🇺🇦

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Martin Pagels

For the Rick and Morty API, I created an excercise, where everyone can practise their skills.
github.com/mpagels/react-and-morty

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

That looks like an awesome idea Martin!

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Obieze Ezeugo Felistus

Thank you so much for this . Very informative and a good collection to bookmark

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Daniel Zotti

We use the Rick and Morty API during interviews ❤️

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Wow really? Ahah that must be fun!

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Bartłomiej Ciupa
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MAMADOU YAYA DIALLO

very nice article. thumbs up

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