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Public-APIs Build Status

Introduction

This is an attempt to categorise different APIs scoured from the web which make their resources available for consumption.

*Items marked with Open Source are open-source *Items marked with 💸 are trial based APIs

Table of Contents

  • [Advertising] (#advertising)
  • [Analytics] (#analytics)
  • [Augmented Reality] (#augmented-reality)
  • [Bar Code] (#barcode)
  • [Big Data and Analytics] (#big-data-and-analytics)
  • [Bitcoin] (#bitcoinbitcoin-wallets)
  • [Captcha] (#captcha)
  • [Check In] (#check-in)
  • [Commerce] (#commerce)
  • [Content] (#content)
  • [Data Science] (#data-science)
  • [Dictionary] (#dictionary)
  • [Entertainment] (#entertainment)
  • [Face Recognition] (#face-recognition)
  • [File Storage and Manipulation] (#file-storage-and-manipulation)
  • [Fitness] (#fitness)
  • [Google] (#google)
  • [Image Moderation] (#image-moderation)
  • [IoT] (#iot)
  • [Login and Authentication] (#login-authentication)
  • [Machine Learning] (#machine-learning)
  • [Maps] (#maps)
  • [Miscellaneous] (#miscellaneous)
  • [Movies] (#movies)
  • [Music] (#music)
    • [Music Analytics] (#music-analytics)
    • [Music Discovery] (#music-discovery)
    • [Music Identification] (#music-identification)
    • [Music Lyrics] (#music-lyrics)
    • [Music Store] (#music-stores)
  • [Natural Language Processing] (#natural-language-processing)
  • News
  • [Placeholder Images] (#placeholder-images)
  • [Places] (#places)
  • [Social Media] (#social-media)
  • [Source Control] (#source-control)
  • [Sport] (#sport)
  • [Transportation] (#transportation)
  • [URL Shorteners] (#url-shorteners)
  • [Weather] (#weather)
  • Resources For Design and Discovery of APIs
  • [More Resources] (#more-resources)
  • [Contribute] (#contributions)

APIs

Advertising

Analytics

  • Clicky - Allows you to extract your web site's traffic data into several formats, making it easy to integrate, analyze, or store your data within your own application.
  • Woopra - Real-time website analysis tool that targets customer engagement.
  • MixPanel - Analytics for mobile and web which helps you analyze the actions people take in your application.
  • Countly - Self-hosted or private cloud mobile, web and desktop analytics. Open Source
  • IBM Digital Analytics - Web Analytics tool often used by e-commerce websites.
  • Open Web Analytics - Provides a way to request and work with your data outside of the OWA reporting interface.
  • Google Analytics - Google Analytics provides APIs to collect, configure, and report on user-interactions with your online content.
  • Amazon Mobile Analytics - Service for collecting, visualizing, and understanding app usage data at scale.
  • Flurry - Yahoo’s Flurry provides you with a number of APIs enabling you to export your data.
  • Parse - Download recent data to run your own custom analytics.
  • Zoho Reports API - Build powerful reporting and analytical capabilities into your application.
  • Localytics - Interface to Localytics analytics platform.

Augmented Reality

  • Wikitude - Wikitude’s all-in-one AR solution includes image recognition & tracking, 3D model rendering, video overlay, location based AR. 💸
  • Vuforia - Solid SDK with robust development options. 💸

BarCode

  • Google Barcode - The Barcode API detects barcodes in real-time, on device, in any orientation. It can also detect multiple barcodes at once.

Big Data and Analytics

  • Ryft - integrate the Ryft ONE’s data analysis capabilities into existing big data environments for faster data analysis and real-time intelligence.
  • Google Charts - Free tool with a wide range of capabilities for visualizing data from a website.
  • Mongo DB - mongoDB is ideal for developers who want precise control over the final results and processes for handling Big Data.
  • Keen IO - Keen IO is a powerful, flexible, and scaleable solution that’s literally Big Data, easy-to-implement and at your fingertips.

Bitcoin/Bitcoin Wallets

  • Bitcoin - Find useful resources, guides and reference material for developers.
  • Coinbase - Coinbase APIs and developer tools make building bitcoin and blockchain apps much easier.
  • Block - The most versatile and secure wallet for all your coins.
  • Coinkite - Coinkite's Bitcoin API provides simple and powerful REST integrations for adding bitcoin functions into your business / application.
  • bitpay - A simple, RESTful API to the most powerful bitcoin infrastructure on the planet.
  • BlockCypher - BlockCypher is the infrastructure fabric for blockchain applications
  • biteasy - Biteasy provides the following, free to use, APIs which a developer can use and build its own great applications.
  • Bitcoincharts - You can use this API to include markets data in your websites, mobile apps or desktop applets.
  • ShapeShift.io - Exchange between cryptocurrencies without an account. Well documented API for easy use.
  • Exchange Rates API - Market Prices and exchanges rates api.

Captcha

  • Google reCAPTCHA - ReCAPTCHA lets you embed a CAPTCHA in your web pages in order to protect them against spam and other types of automated abuse.
  • Anti-Captcha - Access to Anti-Captcha’s API.
  • Naver Captcha - Access to Naver’s Captcha API.

Check-In

Commerce

  • Moltin - Unified APIs for inventory, carts, the checkout process, payments and more, so you can focus on creating seamless customer experiences at any scale.

Content

Data Science

  • Data Science Toolkit - A collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science.

Dictionary

  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary API - Gives developers access to a big ass resource of dictionary and thesaurus content as well as specialized medical, Spanish, ESL, and student-friendly vocabulary.
  • Wordnik - Dictionary functions.
  • Words API - Use it to find definitions for more than 150,000 words.
  • Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Access to Cambridge’s custom-developed API. 💸
  • Glosbe API - Dictionary API and Translation Memory API description.
  • DictService - This Web Service allows you to access dictionary definitions from the dict.org service.
  • Pearson Dictionaries API - (BETA) Gives access to a very large database of words and phrases with through explanations - free usage for up to 4 million calls/month.

Entertainment

  • Marvel - Access over 70 years of comic data with Marvel's official developer API.
  • Comic Vine - An extremely mature, well organized and continuely updated resource of comic information.
  • Pokéapi - All the Pokémon data you'll ever need, in one place. Open Source

Face Recognition

  • Kairos - Face recognition, emotion analysis and measuring engagement of people in images or videos for any mobile or web application. 30 Day Trial 💸

File Storage and Manipulation

Fitness

  • FitBit - Web API for accessing data from Fitbit activity trackers, Aria scale, and manually entered logs.
  • Strava - API for accessing and managing data about athletes, activities and segments.
  • Withings - Access to data from Withings activity trackers and body measures.
  • Lumo - The Lumo API provides access to detailed user activity with 5 minute resolution as well as access to user profile information, such as height, weight, gender, etc.

Google

Image Moderation

  • WebPurify - Provides live image moderation by humans. Free for first 100 images. 2¢ per image after. 💸

IoT

  • Zetta - An open source platform built on Node.js for creating IoT servers that run across geo-distributed computers and the cloud. Open Source
  • Temboo SDK - This platform acts as a layer on top of third-party APIs, using code snippets to trigger complex processes that run through their cloud platform.
  • Xively - Uses free and open libraries to let you connect different types of hardware, using a variety of languages to their cloud service.
  • ThingSpeak - “Internet of Things” application and API to store and retrieve data from things using HTTP over the Internet or via a Local Area Network.
  • Particle - API to manage Particle devices (including their own Arduino-compatible ones and the Raspberry Pi) and control them. Free for up to 25 devices and 250k events/month.
  • Philips Hue - Registration (free) and local Hue Bridge (not free) required - Control Hue brand lights made by Philips. API calls are made to the Hue Bridge residing on local network. Includes a web based UI.
  • SmartThings - API for Samsung SmartThings Smart Home Hub products (ZigBee, Z-Wave, IP).

Login Authentication

  • Facebook Login for Apps - Secure, fast, convenient way to login in your app/website.
  • Twitter Sign-in - Works on websites, iOS, mobile and desktop applications.
  • GitHub Authentication - Access to GitHub’s Authentication API.
  • LinkedIn - Make it convenient for your users to sign in with their professional identity.
  • Instagram - Access to Instagram’s OAuth API.
  • PayPal - Enables your customers to sign in to your web site quickly and securely using their PayPal login credentials.
  • Salesforce - Salesforce uses the OAuth protocol to allow users of applications to securely access data without having to reveal username and password credentials.
  • Firebase - Authentication, analytics, cloud messaging, crash reporting, ads and more.
  • Naver Login for Apps - Access to Naver’s Authentication API.
  • Kakao Login for Apps - Access to Kakao’s Authentication API.
  • Auth0 - Authenticate and authorize apps and APIs with any identity provider running on any stack any device or cloud. Free for 700 active users.

Machine Learning

  • IBM Watson - Simplifies the process of preparing data and makes it easier to run predictive analysis.
  • Microsoft Azure Machine Learning API - Helps data scientists publish in minutes which once used to take days after they had developed a feasible model.
  • Google Prediction API - Cloud-based machine learning and pattern matching tool.
  • Amazon MI API - Amazon Machine Learning API simplifies the process of making predictions that require lots of expertise around model building, data cleansing and statistical analysis.
  • Big ML - BigML is user-friendly and developer-friendly Machine learning API that mainly concentrates on decision trees.

Maps

  • Google Maps API - Google Maps APIs are available for Android, iOS, web browsers and through HTTP web services. Clients can be found here.
  • Yahoo Maps - Yahoo Maps lets you easily embed rich and interactive maps using your choice of platform.
  • Mapbox - Access to MapBox’s API.
  • CartoDB - Allows you to generate maps based on data hosted in your CartoDB account.
  • Bing Maps - Bing Maps platform provides multiple API options for your application.
  • DigitalGlobe - DigitalGlobe Maps API delivers the world's best satellite imagery, straight to your app. #Beta
  • Amazon Maps API v2 - Add interactive 3D maps, graphics, and custom overlays to your Fire Tablet and Fire phone apps.
  • Yandex - API for installing Yandex.Maps and the necessary tools for working it on your web app or site.
  • Scribble - The Scribble Maps API is a cross browser, mobile ready, HTML5/JavaScript, interactive map builder.
  • Naver Maps API - Naver Maps provide multiple APIs for Korean map.
  • Daum Maps API - Daum Maps provide multiple APIs for Korean map.

Miscellaneous

  • BBC - Variety of BBC APIs with access to interesting data from Radio Labs, programs played on BBC and linking data around the artist played on BBC.
  • MuseScore - REST based API which provides music metadata.
  • Spreaker - Enables developers to read and write data to Spreaker.
  • FreeDB - Look up CD information using the freed database.
  • QuantOneMusic - Answers the need for digital music data.
  • WolframAlpha - Integrate top of the line computational knowledge into your applications through the WolframAlpha API. 💸
  • RestCountries - Get information about countries via a RESTful API. Open Source
  • Pastebin - Quickly share text or code, with support for over 250 languages for syntax highlighting.
  • NASA - Get NASA data, including imagery, list of asteroids based on their closest approach date to Earth and much more.

Movies

  • OMDB - OMDb provides a free web service to obtain information and metadata about movies.

Music

  • Spotify - Spotify’s Web API lets your applications fetch data from the Spotify music catalog and manage user’s playlists and saved music.
  • NPR API - NPR's API is a content API, which essentially provides a structured way for other computer applications to get NPR stories in a predictable, flexible and powerful way.
  • Last.fm - The Last.fm API allows anyone to build their own programs using Last.fm data, whether they're on the web, the desktop or mobile devices.
  • Sound Cloud - Using the SoundCloud API, you can build applications that take sound on the web to the next level.
  • Rhapsody - Access metadata, user’s entire library of music and do much more.
  • MusicGraph - Search through more than 7 billion music facts and connections.
  • musicApi - Centralized Node.JS API SDK for Xiami, Netease, and QQ music - The Top 3 music providers in China.

Music Analytics

  • Next Big Sound - API offers a very simple interface to access data from NBS. Ruby wrapper available.

Music Discovery

  • Rovi - Access to Metadata, search capabilities and recommendations.
  • Setlist.fm - The setlist.fm API has been designed to give you easy access to setlist data in order to build fancy websites and other applications.
  • TuneFind - Allows developers to enhance their services with song, show, and movie data from TuneFind.

Music Identification

  • Acoustid - Supports searching through their fingerprint database. Open Source
  • Gracenote - Largest source of music and video metadata on the planet.

Music Lyrics

  • ChartLyrics Lyrics API - Allows users to search for lyrics using the artist name, song title, or lyric text.
  • Muisxmatch - Power your music project by licensing access to the world’s most authoritative lyrics DB.

Music Stores

  • iTunes Search - The Search API allows you to place search fields in your website to search for content within the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store and Mac App Store.
  • Reverb - Sell and buy music related merchandise.

News Services

  • NewsAPI - 70+ news sources and their headlines, one API.

Natural Language Processing

  • TextRazor - Helps you extract and understand the Who, What, Why, and How from your supplied text. #FreeToUse
  • AlchemyAPI - IBM Company - Uses NLP and ML algorithms to extract semantic meta-data from content.
  • Open Calais - Good entity extraction, no sentiment analysis.
  • Semantria - SAAS API based on Lexalytics engine. #Paid
  • Datum Box - Datumbox offers a powerful open-source Machine Learning Framework written in Java. Open Source
  • Wit AI - Provides an intent-based NLP API to easily build text and audio based chat bots. Open Source

Placeholder Images

  • PlaceKitten - A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code.
  • Placehold - A quick and simple image placeholder service.
  • Lorem Pixel - Placeholder images for every case.
  • DummyImage - Particularly nice, when compared to some of its competitors, in that it offers a great deal of flexibility.
  • Unsplash - Beautiful placeholders using images from the popular Unsplash

Places

  • CityGrid - Enables developers to create web and mobile applications that find local businesses, organizations, and points of interest by a variety of search criteria.
  • Factual - Providing a places search that can be searched by latitude/longitude, and “where” using full text search query string.
  • Foursquare Venue - Providing a places search that can be searched by  hierarchical list of categories, longitude/latitude etc.
  • Fwix - Providing a places search that can be searched by latitude/longitude, and text search based upon categories, address, city, province, postal code, country etc
  • Google Places API - Providing a places search that can be searched by latitude/longitude, keyword matched against all fields, name of place, type of place restricted by radius.
  • Nokia - Providing a JavaScript places search that can be searched by search term, with a detail search for display by JS widget.
  • Yahoo GeoPlanet - Providing a places search that can be searched by type, county, state, country, oceans, seas, continents, hierarchy and full text search.
  • Yelp - You can search location using geo bounding box, longitude and latitude, neighborhood, address or city and filter listings by “where”, using a list of support categories.
  • YP - Providing a places search that can be queried by keyword and longitude/latitude, street address, city, postal code, Neighborhood, state, points of interest or by phone number.

Retail

  • Amazon Product Advertising API - Get access to the data used by Amazon including items for sale, customer reviews, seller reviews, item search, product promotions, and more.

Social Media

  • Instagram - Search photos by location, user, tags, view trending photos, and make custom items.
  • Flickr - Search through user Flickr content, contacts, upload or replace photos.
  • Google+ - Enables apps to login to Google+ view connections, groups, posts, and contact information.
  • LinkedIn - Enables apps to connect to user accounts, data, connections,groups, communications, and social streams.
  • Facebook - For ads, games, payments, login, sharing stats, and user data.
  • Twitter - Enables an app to interact with most of Twitter’s functions.
  • Pinterest - Enables apps to view the most clicked-through or repinned Pins, view related posts, and user profiles.
  • Tumblr - Create new ways to use Tumblr with access to content, likes, followers, and drafts.
  • Foursquare - Access to Foursquare database and ability to interact with Foursquare users.
  • YouTube - Add YouTube functionality to your sites and apps.
  • Gravatar - Create profiles and avatars using this web service.
  • Weibo - Programmatic access to China’s most popular microblogging site.
  • DeviantArt - The largest social networking website for artists and art enthusiasts.
  • Whatsapp Document Interaction - If your application creates photos, videos or audio notes and you’d like your users to share these media using WhatsApp. #Limited
  • Snapchat - PHP library of Snapchat’s private API. #Private
  • GoodReads - Allows developers access to Goodreads data in order to help websites or applications that deal with books.
  • Telegram - The Telegram API allows you to build your own customized Telegram clients.
  • Twitch - The Twitch API enables you to develop your own applications using the rich feature set that Twitch provides.
  • Reddit - API to build clients, crawlers, scrapers, and browser extensions. Open Source
  • Zomato - Zomato APIs give you access to the freshest and most exhaustive information for over 1.5 million restaurants across 10,000 cities globally.
  • Delicious - Access to Delicious’s API.
  • Vimeo - Access to Vimeo’s API.
  • Daily Motion - Build applications centered around DailyMotion.
  • EventBrite - The Eventbrite Python SDK makes it trivial to interact with the Eventbrite API. Open Source
  • Wordpress - Access to Wordpress’ API.
  • Imgur - Imgur's API exposes the entire Imgur infrastructure via a standardized programmatic interface.
  • Kakao - Access to Kakao’s APIs.
  • Path - Path is a simple and beautiful space to capture and share everyday moments of your life with people who matter most to you.

Source Control

  • GitHub - Build real-world GitHub applications right from authentication, to manipulating results, to combining results with other service.
  • GitHub Gists - Access to GitHub’s Gists API.
  • SVN - Collection of modular libraries written in the C programming language.
  • Mercurial - Access to Mercurial’s API.
  • Team Foundation Server - TFS APIs are based on REST, OAuth, Json and service hooks.
  • Bitbucket - Access to Bitbucket's API.

Sport

  • Ergast Formula 1 - Provides access to current and historical Formula 1 race data from 1950 to today.

Transportation

  • Uber - Uber provides API for customizing trip experiences, requesting rides, powering logistics, creating bots and so much more.
  • Lyft - Get real-time ETAs, availability, price estimates, ride status through the Lyft API.
  • Moovit - Connect users from your app to the Moovit app with a specific action through deeplinks.
  • Edmunds - A dataset containing all the car makes.

URL Shorteners

  • Google URL Shortener - Service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters.
  • Bitly - Access to Bitly’s API.
  • Yourls - Generate or get existing short URLs, with sequential or custom keyword.
  • Po.st - Shorten URLs, Expand shortened URLs, see statistics etc.
  • Anon.click - Shorten long URLs and optionally protect them with passwords or captcha. No registration required.
  • Naver URL Shortener - Access to Naver’s shorten url API.

Weather

  • Open Weather - Access current weather data for any location on Earth including over 200,000 cities!
  • Yahoo Weather API - Get up-to-date information for any location, including 5-day forecast, wind, atmosphere, astronomy conditions, and more.
  • Wunderground API - Reliable data, accurate forecast, & global coverage in 80 languages.
  • Forecast - The same API that powers Forecast.io and Dark Sky for iOS.
  • AccuWeather - Provides subscribers access to location based weather data via a simple RESTful web interface.
  • Weather Source - Powerful Weather API built for systems that demand speed, reliability and heavy load.

Credits

Resources For Design and Discovery of APIs

  • Swagger - Tools for designing, building, and documenting RESTful APIs. Open Source
  • OpenAPI - Standard, language-agnostic interface to REST APIs (based on Swagger). Open Source
  • Apiary - Collaborative tool to design APIs. 💸

More Resources

Contributions

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