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10 Great Free APIs for Front-End Developers

Introduction

So you are front-end developer and and want to build interactive applications that interacts with the API but you don't have API to do so. No worries in this post I'll cover 10 amazing free apis that you can use to build awesome projects.

1. Web Search API

If you want to build search engine like google or implement simple search engine widget then Web Search API is great tool to do so. It returns billions of webpages, images, news with a just single API call.
Web Search

2. Open Weather Map API

Open Weather Map is free API which gives data on the latest weather around the world. All you've to do is provide city name or country name and it returns weather details for that specific area
Open Weather Map

3. IMDB API

If you want to build movie app then IMDB API is another great API as it returns data for queried films, actors, tv-series, trailers, movie ratins and more.
IMDB

4. News API

News API amazing free API that provides you with the data on the worldwide news. So if you are building News APP then you should definitely have a look at this API
News

5. The Guardian API

If you need the data that's generated by The Guardian API then you can use their free public service API
The Guardian

6. Instagram API

If you are building the clone of the Instagram or need real time data from Instagram in your APP then you can use this amazing free API that provides real-time data from Instagram
Instagram

7. API-Football

If you want to build Football results app then API-Football is the API for you as it provides +940 football leagues & cups. Livescore on every 15 seconds, live & pre-match odds, events, line-ups, coachs, players, top scorers, standings, statistics, transfers, predictions.
API-Football

8. Meme Generator API

Meme Generator API is a simple meme generator that generates memes by choosing a preloaded image, and short top and bottom text sentences. Memes are served in the JPEG image file format
Meme Generator

9. Words API

Words API lets you retrieve information about English words, including definitions, synonyms, rhymes, pronunciation, syllables, and frequency of usage. It also can tell you about relationships between words, for instance that “math” has categories like “algebra” and “geometry”, or that a “finger” is part of a “hand”.
Words

10. API-NBA

If you are into basketball then API-NBA covers you as it provides with the all NBA Stats DATA, Games, Livescore, Standings, Players, Statistics and a lot more
API-NBA

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