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11 free and fun APIs you must use in your side project

Shreya on December 18, 2023

Starting a new project is like setting sail on an adventure—full of excitement and challenges for developers. As you brainstorm ideas and map out t...
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Jake Lundberg

How did Pokemon API not make the list?! 🤣

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Jaime López

I bet for Chuck Norris API to be on the list as well 😊

Chuck Norris Jokes API

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Shreya

Thanks for sharing. Will consider it for next blog.

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Prayson Wilfred Daniel • Edited

There exists also HTTPBin , simple HTTP Request & Response Service, which is literally a request bin 🗑️ and Bored API, which randomly finds things for bored souls to do 😜

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Shreya

Nice thanks for sharing.

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val von vorn

nobody must use any joke API seriously never

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Christian Heilmann

The Covid API is defunct:
This API handled over 1 billion requests, serving numerous dashboards, mobile apps and travel-related solutions worldwide. Due to the changing nature of Covid-19 and subsequent lack of data we decided to discontinue the service on May 15th, 2023.

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Matija Sosic

nice list! But yeah, we need pokemon api :D

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Shreya

Thanks @matijasos Next article is on the way :)

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SSK

There is this one Fakend / Jsoplaceholder++ , this is cool, i'm using for my projects also. It also have headers search, sort, paginate, authentications and more.

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Nevo David

I'm def going to use the Nasa one! :D

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Shreya

Yeah :)

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Nathan Tarbert

Nice list of API's. I've used quite a few listed here but I will bookmark this article so I have a list to come back to.

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Bap

The NASA one looks super cool - I never knew about it. Thanks :)

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Shreya

Yeah. Nasa have GraphQL APIs as well.

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Vladimir Ignatev

Could anyone recommend some fun API to use it as a demo for students? It should be really fun, not another one weather, news or stupid jokes 🤣

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Matek

love this img with github's cat. btw awesome article as well

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Shreya

Thanks a lot :)

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José Muñoz

I've used a couple of this but there are so many new ones, nice list!

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Carlos Duran

I think some time ago I saw a Harry Potter API, also the Starwars API. But don't remember where... 🤔

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Saurabh Rai

Bookmarked it for API testing.

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Carlisle Mcclour

Haha, JokeAPI :D

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Chuo Vechet

Good for Learning and Testing.

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Harry Wood

Nice list!
You wrote "Check out OpenWeatherMap's GitHub repo!" twice

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Nevin M

thanks for sharing

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rooted92

Don't forget SWAPI!! :)

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Shawn2208

Jason placeholder api 👌

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Repro Dev

Bookmarked for later API related shenanigans, thank you