Wild APIs

Building a kids' education site

The APIs you would realistically stitch together, grouped by role: core data first, then enrichment, images and location.
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7Timer!GFS-based multi-day forecasts by coordinate, including sky seeing and transparency for stargazing.
Weather & Environment › Astronomy
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Amanah SunnahQuran verses, hadith from 8 classical collections, tafsir, and narrator biographies with grading data.
Culture & Society › Religion
FreeAPI keyJSONUnlimitedLive
An API of Ice And FireCharacters, houses, and books from A Song of Ice and Fire and the Game of Thrones TV series.
Media & Entertainment › Movies & TV
FreeNoneJSON10k+/dayLive
API ColombiaColombia reference data: departments, cities, tourist sites, airports, presidents and more.
Data & Knowledge › Open Government Data
NoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Art Institute of ChicagoMuseum collection data for 130,000+ artworks — artists, mediums, dates, and IIIF images.
Culture & Society › Art & Museums
FreeNoneJSON10k+/dayLive
AstronomyAPISun, Moon and planet positions and events for any place and date, plus rendered star charts and moon images.
Weather & Environment › Astronomy
FreeAPI keyJSONUnlimitedLive
Bhagavad Gita teluguBhagavad Gita verses by chapter/verse with Telugu, English, Spanish or Odia translation and commentary.
Culture & Society › Religion
NoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Big Book APISemantic search, filtering, sorting, and recommendations across millions of books.
Data & Knowledge › Books
FreemiumAPI keyJSON<100/dayLive
Black History FactsApproved, user-submitted Black history facts, searchable by tag or person or served at random.
Culture & Society › History
API keyJSONLive
BootprintReturns a random image and fact about a celestial object like Mars, Jupiter or the Moon.
Health & Science › Space
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Cat FactsReturns random cat trivia and breed facts, one endpoint, no key required.
Nature & Outdoors › Animals
NoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Cat FactsRandom cat trivia facts from a keyless, community-sourced JSON endpoint.
Nature & Outdoors › Animals
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Chinese Text ProjectFull texts and metadata for pre-modern Chinese philosophy, history and literature works.
Data & Knowledge › Dictionaries
FreemiumAPI keyJSONLive
Chronicling AmericaSearchable full text and metadata for millions of digitized historic US newspaper pages.
Culture & Society › History
FreeNoneJSONLive
CodeCogs Equation EditorRenders LaTeX equations as PNG, SVG, GIF, EMF, or PDF images from a plain URL.
Utilities › Conversion
FreemiumNoneBinary1k–10k/dayLive
College ROI30-year net present value and lifetime ROI for 500 US colleges and 134 majors, from IPEDS/FREOPP/BEA data.
Data & Knowledge › Academic
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
College ScorecardU.S. college and university data: costs, admissions, graduation rates, student outcomes, by school or program.
Data & Knowledge › Open Government Data
FreeAPI keyJSON10k+/dayLive
DatamuseFinds words matching meaning, sound, spelling pattern or related-word constraints for language tools.
Data & Knowledge › Dictionaries
FreeNoneJSON10k+/dayLive
DiceBearGenerates deterministic SVG avatars from a seed string, with 60+ art styles to pick from.
Developer Tools › Mock Data
FreeNoneXMLUnlimitedLive
DiceBearGenerates deterministic SVG or PNG avatars from a seed string, across dozens of styles.
Media & Entertainment › Images & Photos
NoneBinaryUnlimitedLive
Disney APILists Disney characters with their films, shows and games, each linked to its Disney Fandom source.
Media & Entertainment › Movies & TV
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
DistrictAPILooks up US school districts and schools by address, with enrollment, spending and boundary data.
Data & Knowledge › Open Government Data
FreemiumAPI keyJSON<100/dayLive
Dog APIDog breed characteristics, photos, breed groups, and random facts, no key needed.
Nature & Outdoors › Animals
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Dog FactsRandom dog facts, breed data, and breed images from an open-source hobby project.
Nature & Outdoors › Animals
FreeNoneJSON10k+/dayLive
DogsRandom dog photos by breed, sourced from the Stanford Dogs Dataset, no key needed.
Nature & Outdoors › Animals
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
FruityviceBotanical family, genus, and per-100g nutrition data (calories, sugar, protein) for common fruits.
Food & Drink › Nutrition
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Google Books APISearches Google's book catalog for metadata, previews and availability by title, author or ISBN.
Data & Knowledge › Books
API keyJSONDegraded
Harvard Art MuseumsHarvard Art Museums' collection data: objects, artists, exhibitions, images, refreshed daily.
Culture & Society › Art & Museums
FreeAPI keyJSON1k–10k/dayLive
HebcalConverts Gregorian/Hebrew dates and returns Jewish holidays, Shabbat times, and Torah readings.
Culture & Society › Holidays
FreeNoneJSON10k+/dayLive
HolidaysPublic holidays and observances for 250+ countries and 3,600+ states/provinces, in 100+ languages.
Culture & Society › Holidays
FreemiumAPI keyJSONLive
Hyrule Compendium APIItems, creatures, and locations from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.
Media & Entertainment › Games
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
icanhazdadjokeServes a large library of dad jokes as random, by ID, as a Slack message, an image, or via search.
Media & Entertainment › Jokes & Quotes
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
iDigBioSearch millions of digitized natural history museum specimen records by taxon, locality and collector.
Health & Science › Biology
NoneJSONUnlimitedLive
ISRO APIReference data on ISRO's launched spacecraft, launchers, customer satellites and centres.
Health & Science › Space
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
ITISUS government taxonomic database of scientific and common names, hierarchy and classification for species.
Health & Science › Biology
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
IUCN Red ListConservation status and extinction-risk data for assessed animal and plant species worldwide.
Nature & Outdoors › Animals
API keyJSONUntested
MeowFactsRandom cat facts by GET request, with count, id, and 13+ language options.
Nature & Outdoors › Animals
NoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Merriam-WebsterWord definitions, etymology, audio pronunciation and thesaurus data from Merriam-Webster's reference works.
Data & Knowledge › Dictionaries
FreemiumAPI keyJSON1k–10k/dayLive
Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection APIMetadata and images for 470,000+ Met Museum artworks, CC0-licensed, no key required.
Culture & Society › Art & Museums
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
NASA Open APIsNASA's own gateway to astronomy picture of the day, Mars rover photos, asteroid and Earth imagery data.
Health & Science › Space
FreeAPI keyJSON10k+/dayDegraded
National Park ServiceUS national park details, alerts, campgrounds, visitor centers, events and photos, keyed by park code.
Nature & Outdoors › Parks
FreeAPI keyJSON10k+/dayLive
NewtonComputes math expressions: simplify, factor, derive, integrate, zeroes, trig functions.
Utilities › Math
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Nobel Prize APIStructured records of every Nobel Prize and laureate since 1901, including bios and citations.
Data & Knowledge › Datasets
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
NoctuaSkyLooks up stars, planets and deep-sky objects by name; powers the Stellarium Web planetarium.
Health & Science › Space
NoneJSONLive
Numbers API (Math.Tools)Answers number-theory questions (prime, palindrome, factors), converts bases and spells numbers out.
Data & Knowledge › Encyclopedic
PaidAPI keyJSONLive
Official Joke APIRandom general, knock-knock, programming, and dad jokes as setup/punchline JSON pairs.
Media & Entertainment › Jokes & Quotes
NoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Open LibraryBook, edition, author and cover data crowdsourced by the Internet Archive; free lookups by ISBN or title.
Data & Knowledge › Books
FreeNoneJSON10k+/dayLive
Open ScholarshipsFree, CC-BY-licensed directory of US scholarships and student aid, currently covering Nevada.
Data & Knowledge › Academic
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Oxford Dictionaries APIDefinitions, pronunciations, synonyms and translations from Oxford's dictionary data, by word lookup.
Data & Knowledge › Dictionaries
API keyJSONLive
PlaceDogServes dog photos sized by URL path, useful as design and layout placeholders
Nature & Outdoors › Animals
FreeNoneBinaryUnlimitedLive
PoetryDBSearches a fixed collection of public-domain poems by author, title, or line, returning JSON.
Data & Knowledge › Books
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
PokéAPIDetailed structured data on Pokémon species, moves, items, types and games from every generation.
Media & Entertainment › Games
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
PotterAPIHarry Potter books, characters, houses and spells, in six languages, with images.
Data & Knowledge › Books
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
PublicDataHubUS school, hospital and federal agency figures as JSON/CSV, each one sourced and dated.
Data & Knowledge › Open Government Data
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
PurgoMalumDetects and censors profanity/obscenity in text, including leetspeak substitutions, keyless.
AI & Machine Learning › Moderation
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
QuizAPIREST API for creating, generating, and embedding quizzes with AI-generated questions.
Media & Entertainment › Games
FreemiumAPI keyJSON<100/dayLive
QuizBaseMultilingual trivia questions, deduped from 11 open datasets, each tagged with its source license.
Media & Entertainment › Games
FreemiumAPI keyJSON100–1k/dayLive
Quran APIFull Quran text plus 440+ translations in 90+ languages, served as static JSON, no key needed.
Culture & Society › Religion
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
RandomDuckRandom duck photos and GIFs, plus a JSON endpoint and per-image lookup by number.
Nature & Outdoors › Animals
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
REST CountriesNames, ISO codes, flags, currencies, languages, borders and current leaders for 250+ countries.
Location & Mapping › Countries
FreemiumAPI keyJSON<100/dayLive
Scholar SidekickResolves DOI, PMID, ISBN and arXiv IDs into formatted citations, exports, and fabrication/retraction checks.
Data & Knowledge › Academic
FreemiumNoneJSON<100/dayLive
SefariaJewish text library API: Torah, Talmud and commentary text, versions, and cross-reference links.
Data & Knowledge › Books
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Semantic ScholarSearch and retrieve papers, authors and citation graphs across 200M+ scholarly works.
Data & Knowledge › Academic
FreemiumAPI keyJSONDegraded
Smithsonian Open AccessSearch and metadata for 11M+ CC0-licensed Smithsonian museum and archive collection records.
Culture & Society › Art & Museums
FreeAPI keyJSONDegraded
Solar System OpenDataPhysical and orbital data for planets, moons, dwarf planets and asteroids in the solar system.
Health & Science › Space
FreeAPI keyJSONLive
Sudoku100Generates random or difficulty-picked Sudoku puzzle images (PNG/SVG/WebP) with unique solutions.
Media & Entertainment › Games
FreeNoneBinaryUnlimitedLive
Sunrise SunsetSunrise, sunset, twilight, golden hour, sun position and moon phase for any coordinates, a year per call.
Weather & Environment › Astronomy
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
SWAPIStructured data on Star Wars people, planets, starships, vehicles, species and films.
Media & Entertainment › Movies & TV
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
SWAPI.techStar Wars reference data: people, planets, films, species, starships, and vehicles.
Media & Entertainment › Movies & TV
NoneJSONUnlimitedLive
The Cat APIRandom cat images and breed facts, searchable by breed or image type.
Nature & Outdoors › Animals
FreemiumAPI keyJSON100–1k/dayLive
TrefleAround a million plant records: taxonomy, common names, distribution, images, edibility and growth traits.
Nature & Outdoors › Plants
FreeAPI keyJSON10k+/dayLive
UniDbUK university and course data (demographics, ratings, popularity, value) from HESA and government statistics.
Data & Knowledge › Academic
FreemiumAPI keyJSONLive
USGS Earthquake CatalogSearchable global earthquake catalog by time, area, depth and magnitude, plus minute-updated GeoJSON feeds.
Weather & Environment › Natural Disasters
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
WikidataStructured facts and relationships about people, places and concepts from Wikimedia's public knowledge base.
Data & Knowledge › Encyclopedic
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
WikipediaFull-text article content, search, metadata and page history from Wikipedia and other wikis.
Data & Knowledge › Encyclopedic
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
WiktionaryWikimedia's collaborative dictionary: word definitions, etymologies, and translations by page title.
Data & Knowledge › Dictionaries
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
Wizard WorldFan-curated Harry Potter data: houses, elixirs, spells, wizards, and ingredients.
Data & Knowledge › Books
NoneJSONUnlimitedLive
WolframAlphaComputational answer engine returning direct answers, data, and visualizations for math and factual queries.
Data & Knowledge › Encyclopedic
FreemiumAPI key<100/dayLive
Wolne LekturyTexts, audiobooks and metadata for Polish public-domain literature, browsable by author, epoch and genre.
Data & Knowledge › Books
FreeNoneJSONUnlimitedLive
WordnikEnglish word definitions, synonyms, examples and audio pronunciations from five dictionaries.
Data & Knowledge › Dictionaries
FreemiumAPI keyJSON1k–10k/dayLive
WordsAPIDefinitions, synonyms, antonyms, rhymes and word relationships for over 150,000 English words.
Data & Knowledge › Dictionaries
FreemiumAPI keyJSON1k–10k/dayLive