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APIs you didn't know you needed

Mikhail Korolev on January 29, 2019

With everything recently being "as a service", there are a plenty of different data sources that can provide... stuff. Stuff as a service, of cours...
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Ben Halpern

Yes or No API

fml

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Templar++

Amateurs. We all know they should return also FileNotFound

thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_T...

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Robin Kretzschmar • Edited

Laughed waaaaay to hard on your comment, can relate 100% :D
Edit: the short fml at the bottom made it

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Matthew Daly

Marvel have an excellent API for getting details about your favourite comics and characters.

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Hugo

I built a small app using that API.

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Sung M. Kim

This actually I need 😉

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Nitesh Sawant

I have recently created a API,that gives a quote posted by #Sadhguru on twitter.
sadhguru-quotes.herokuapp.com/api/...
GitHub repo
Please check it out.

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Ananya Neogi

RoboHash is a service that provide unique, robot/alien/monster images for any text, IP address, email, etc.
Can be used to generate random but cool user avatars for a site!

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ComputerSmiths

This is so much fun, thanks for pointing it out. I've changed my dry and boring "Your DHCP WAN address changed from foo to bar" to "and here's a picture of the robot"!

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Ananya Neogi

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Juan A. Fuentest Torcat

Why is this tagged as productivity?

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Dan Silcox

It was “!productivity” but the ! got escaped out :D

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myleftshoe

This is sort of list of speculative known unknowns. I didn't know about them so I didn't know if I needed them, but if i had known about them I would have known that I didn't need them. Didn't stop me from going through the whole list though. I guess now they're known knowns.

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Josh Dzielak 🔆

Fantastic list! I know now that I do, in fact, need all of these APIs :P

Here's a fun one I like for filling up those template layouts:

bobrosslipsum.com/

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Raduan Silva dos Santos

My new favorite lorem ipsum generator

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Joe Mainwaring

don't forget about placegoat.com/

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JTK

For anyone that finds this type of thing funny I also have a bad fortune cookie api for which I'm taking bad fortune suggestions :) amazing list enjoyed the Ron Swanson API the most bad-fortune-cookie.herokuapp.com/f...

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Daniel Escoz

placekitten is my new favorite thing in the world, thank you.

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Phil Nash • Edited

PlaceCage is the premium option in the placeholder image world. 😄

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Daniel Escoz

No, sorry, cats are better. 🙈

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Phil Nash

I disagree!

Nic Cage looking crazy.

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Mijo

I can not believe I did not know about foaas.com before. Thanks.

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JTK

same this is the best thing I've ever seen

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Geoff Stevens

This is great, especially the taco API. The VS Code extension that I'm helping build puts a little taco in your status bar near lunch time (not the main functionality, but a fun easter egg). 🌮🌮🌮

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Vikram Sharma

Dude this is awesome. After reading your post I could not stop myself from googling for similar lists and I found a list of random quote apis

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Junsuk Park

'Donald Trump API' awesome!

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Liyas Thomas

Great collection. Feel free to use open source API testing tool: Hoppscotch to spin up these APIs on-the-go directly from your browser window.

GitHub logo hoppscotch / hoppscotch

👽 A free, fast and beautiful API request builder used by 100k+ developers. https://hoppscotch.io

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Robin Kretzschmar

Thanks for the list Mikhail, like you said in the title, I didn't know I need Yes or No api or the food api!

Also nice to have the short list of good placeholder sites at the bottom, placeholders can never be too creative.

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Max Antonucci

The Pokemon API is amazing. So many front-end experiments have been "can I make a pokedex with this using the Pokemon API?"

Also where has that number API been all my life?!

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Phil Ashby

Super list - thank you.......maybe :)

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DeChamp

This is amazing! lol Thanks for the share

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Dave Ross

I run Catalogopolis which is an API for Doctor Who episode data. Which reminds me I need to update it for this last season!

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Jess Lee

@zazzyzeph i feel like this is your jam

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sreenivas

left-pad.io/ anyone ?

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Philip Hallstrom
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Matej Ramuta

itsthisforthat.com/api.php

It's like OpenTable for Funeral Homes 😂

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Katarina Lingat

So good!

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Jerome Hardaway

Best. Article. Ever.

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Thomas Gratier

Add placeholder.com Not as fun as most services listed here but nice to get an image with a custom size to fill blocks when prototyping

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Faragó Tibi
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Wojtek Cichoń

There's also this NBA API balldontlie.io/ that I've bumped into lately.

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Pavlo Malitov

Sugar-coated lorem ipsum generator :) cupcakeipsum.com

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Jesse

This is great 🤣

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Amara Graham

I have generated some incredible ipsum in the past, need to get back to it!

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Humber Aquino

Great stuff! 💪
This might be well known but worth sharing.
httpbin: A simple HTTP Request & Response Service.

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Jacques “Blockchain” Benzakein

Woah. Just saw Lost in Translation for the first time last night. Creepy.

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Kirk Evans • Edited

Hipster Lorem. hipsum.co/