Free API List

Larger APIs

These APIs give you an incredible amount of data to play with. You may not care about the subject, but when it comes to building something with several routes, these are great options

Pokemon API

A massive set of data about pokemon

• https://pokeapi.co/

Star Wars API

A huge API with a ton of info about Star Wars you can work with

• https://swapi.dev/

Open Library

This API is a little opaque from the docs, but messing around eventually reveals answers.

• https://openlibrary.org/developers/api

Here are some hints to get started, try:

• get a list of books by a search string:

  • https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=fantasy

• Take one of the books "key" property and query it individually with .json

const getBook = async () => {
  const response = await fetch('https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45804W.json')
  const { title, covers } = await response.json()

  const titleEl = document.createElement('h1');
  titleEl.textContent = title;
  const coverEl = document.createElement('img');
  coverEl.src = `https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/${covers[0]}-L.jpg`;

  document.body.append(titleEl, coverEl);
}

getBook();

Play around there's a lot of info!

Simpler APIs

These offer a more limited range of data, but still a lot to go through! Especially the Chicago Art Museum! Remember, you can combine APIs. Maybe you have a "cheer up" app that loads up a random joke for a user, and lets them see random pictures of dogs by breed, and then a stretch goal could be it lets them favorite those photos to a gallery (saved urls in localStorage).

Get creative and have fun!

https://anapioficeandfire.com/api/characters/583

api site	API example Link	description
http://api.artic.edu/docs/#quick-start	https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks	Chicago Museum of Art
https://docs.api.jikan.moe/	https://api.jikan.moe/v4/anime/32/full	Anime Data
https://thronesapi.com	https://thronesapi.com/api/v2/Characters	Game of Thrones
https://www.tvmaze.com/api	https://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=girls	TV Shows
https://anapioficeandfire.com	https://anapioficeandfire.com/api/characters/583	Game of Thrones
https://datausa.io/about/api/	https://datausa.io/api/data?drilldowns=State&measures=Population&year=2016	Cool and simple population data
https://github.com/15Dkatz/official_joke_api	https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/random_joke	Random Jokes
https://randomuser.me/	https://randomuser.me/api/	New Fake random user
https://github.com/wh-iterabb-it/meowfacts	https://meowfacts.herokuapp.com/	Cat facts, not sure if true
https://www.zippopotam.us/	https://api.zippopotam.us/us/33162	Zip code to lat/long
https://funtranslations.com/api/	POST request	A fun translator with options from pirates to Yoda
https://www.themealdb.com/api.php	https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/categories.php	A recipe API
https://dog.ceo/dog-api/documentation/	https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random	Random dog pics
https://randomfox.ca/floof/	https://randomfox.ca/floof/	Random pictures of foxes
https://xkcd.vercel.app/	https://xkcd.vercel.app/?comic=latest	Load up XKCD comics
https://www.ipify.org	https://api.ipify.org?format=json	Get the user's IP
https://ipinfo.io/developers	https://ipinfo.io/161.185.160.93/geo	Get geographic data from an IP
https://sunrise-sunset.org/api	https://api.sunrise-sunset.org/json?lat=36.7201600&lng=-4.4203400	Sunset/sunrise time for geographic location
https://api.attackontitanapi.com/	https://api.attackontitanapi.com/characters	Attack on Titan

More APIs

There are of course more APIs out there than what we listed above. However, really try to aim for APIs that:

• Do not have API keys

• Require Servers

• Are needlessly complicated

Remember, the point of this project is to show you can make network requests, get data, and then manipulate that dom to show the data. Don't get distracted!