public-apis/public-apis

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A collective list of free APIs

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public-apis/public-apis is an open-source project on GitHub, mainly written in Python. A collective list of free APIs It currently holds 483,189 stars and 53,374 forks with 1,952 open issues, and was last pushed on 2026-09-25 (repository created 2016-03-20).

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| API | Description | Call this API | |:---|:---|:---| | IPstack | Locate and Identify Website Visitors by IP Address | https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/blob/HEAD/Run In Postman| | Marketstack | Free, easy-to-use REST API interface delivering worldwide stock market data in JSON format | https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/blob/HEAD/Run In Postman| | Weatherstack | Retrieve instant, accurate weather information for any location in the world in lightweight JSON format | https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/blob/HEAD/Run In Postman| | [Numverify](https://numverify.com/?utm_source=Github&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=Public-apis-repo-Best-sellers ) | Global Phone Number Validation & Lookup JSON API |https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/blob/HEAD/Run In Postman| | Fixer | Fixer is a simple and lightweight API for current and historical foreign exchange (forex) rates. |https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/blob/HEAD/Run In Postman| | Aviationstack | Free, real-time flight status and global Aviation data API |https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/blob/HEAD/Run In Postman| | Zenserp | Fast, Accurate Google Search Data Built for Developers |https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/blob/HEAD/Run In Postman| | Filestack | Powerful API to upload, transform & deliver any file into your app |Documentation| | Screenshotlayer | Capture highly customizable screenshots of any website |Documentation| | Exchangerate Host | Real-time current and historical foreign exchange and crypto rates |Documentation| | Mailboxlayer | Email Validation & Verification JSON API for Developers |Documentation|


MCP Servers

Model Context Protocol servers let AI agents call APIs as tools. You install one into a client, Claude, Cursor, VS Code, instead of calling it from your own code, so these entries list transport and where you can install them rather than HTTPS/CORS.

| Name | Description | Auth | Transport | Install | |:---|:---|:---|:---|:---| | IPstack MCP | IP geolocation, threat and timezone lookups for agents | apiKey | stdio, HTTP | Cursor · Glama | | GitHub | Repos, issues, PRs, code search | OAuth | stdio, HTTP | Glama | | Filesystem | Read/write local files | No | stdio | – |

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Animals

API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS |:---|:---|:---|:---|:---| | Axolotl | Collection of axolotl pictures and facts | No | Yes | No | | Breed Health Score | Dog breed health scores, median lifespans and conditions | No | Yes | No | | Cat Facts | Daily cat facts | No | Yes | No | | | Cat Facts | Random cat facts | No | Yes | Yes | | Cats | Pictures of cats from Tumblr | apiKey | Yes | No | | Dog Facts | Random dog facts | No | Yes | Yes | | Dog Facts | Random facts of Dogs | No | Yes | Yes | | Dogs | Based on the Stanford Dogs Dataset | No | Yes | Yes | | eBird | Retrieve recent or notable birding observations within a region | apiKey | Yes | No | | FishWatch | Information and pictures about individual fish species | No | Yes | Yes | | HTTP Cat | Cat for every HTTP Status | No | Yes | Yes | | HTTP Dog | Dogs for every HTTP response status code | No | Yes | Yes | | IUCN | IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | apiKey | Yes | No | | MeowFacts | Get random cat facts | No | Yes | No | | Movebank | Movement and Migration data of animals | No | Yes | Yes | | PlaceBear | Placeholder bear pictures | No | Yes | Yes | | PlaceDog | Placeholder Dog pictures | No | Yes | Yes | | RandomDog | Random pictures of dogs | No | Yes | Yes | | RandomDuck | Random pictures of ducks | No | Yes | No | | RandomFox | Random pictures of foxes | No | Yes | No | | RescueGroups | Adoption | No | Yes | Unknown | | Shibe.Online | Random pictures of Shiba Inu, cats or birds | No | Yes | Yes | | The Dog | A public service all about Dogs, free to use when making your fancy new App, Website or Service | apiKey | Yes | No | | xeno-canto | Bird recordings | No | Yes | Unknown |

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Anime

API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS | |:---|:---|:---|:---|:---| | AniAPI | Anime discovery, streaming & syncing with trackers | OAuth | Yes | Yes | | AniDB | Anime Database | apiKey | No | Unknown | | AniList | Anime discovery & tracking | OAuth | Yes | Unknown | | AnimeChan | Anime quotes (over 10k+) | No | Yes | No | | AnimeFacts | Anime Facts (over 100+) | No | Yes | Yes | | AnimeNewsNetwork | Anime industry news | No | Yes | Yes | | Catboy | Neko images, funny GIFs & more | No | Yes | Yes | | Danbooru Anime | Thousands of anime artist database to find good anime art | apiKey | Yes | Yes | | Jikan | Unofficial MyAnimeList API | No | Yes | Yes | | Kitsu | Anime discovery platform | OAuth | Yes | Yes | | MangaDex | Manga Database and Community | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Mangapi | Translate manga pages from one language to another | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | MyAnimeList | Anime and Manga Database and Community | OAuth | Yes | Unknown | | NekosBest | Neko Images & Anime roleplaying GIFs | No | Yes | Yes | | Shikimori | Anime discovery, tracking, forum, rates | OAuth | Yes | Unknown | | Studio Ghibli | Resources from Studio Ghibli films | No | Yes | Yes | | Trace Moe | A useful tool to get the exact scene of an anime from a screenshot | No | Yes | Yes | | Waifu.im | Get waifu pictures from an archive of over 4000 images and multiple tags | No | Yes | Yes | | Waifu.pics | Image sharing platform for anime images | No | Yes | No |

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Anti-Malware

API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS | |:---|:---|:---|:---|:---| | AbuseIPDB | IP/domain/URL reputation | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX) | IP/domain/URL reputation | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | CAPEsandbox | Malware execution and analysis | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Google Safe Browsing | Google Link/Domain Flagging | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | IPWhois.net Blacklist | Community IP blacklist to check and report abusive IP addresses | No | Yes | Unknown | | MalDatabase | Provide malware datasets and threat intelligence feeds | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | MalShare | Malware Archive / file sourcing | apiKey | Yes | No | | Malwagon | Detonates files and URLs in instrumented VMs and returns behaviour, IOCs and ATT&CK | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | MalwareBazaar | Collect and share malware samples | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Metacert | Metacert Link Flagging | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | NoPhishy | Check links to see if they're known phishing attempts | apiKey | Yes | Yes | | Phisherman | IP/domain/URL reputation | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Scanii | Simple REST API that can scan submitted documents/files for the presence of threats | apiKey | Yes | Yes | | ScanMalware | Scan URLs in a sandboxed browser and search past scans by domain, IP, ASN, JARM or favicon hash | No | Yes | Yes | | URLhaus | Bulk queries and Download Malware Samples | No | Yes | Yes | | URLScan.io | Scan and Analyse URLs | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | VirusTotal | VirusTotal File/URL Analysis | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Web of Trust | IP/domain/URL reputation | apiKey | Yes | Unknown |

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Art & Design

API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS | |:---|:---|:---|:---|:---| | Améthyste | Generate images for Discord users | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Art Institute of Chicago | Art | No | Yes | Yes | | Colormind | Color scheme generator | No | No | Unknown | | ColourLovers | Get various patterns, palettes and images | No | No | Unknown | | Cooper Hewitt | Smithsonian Design Museum | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Dribbble | Discover the world’s top designers & creatives | OAuth | Yes | Unknown | | DummyImage | Generate placeholder images with custom size, colors and text | No | Yes | Unknown | | EmojiHub | Get emojis by categories and groups | No | Yes | Yes | | Europeana | European Museum and Galleries content | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Face Shape Guide Lookup | Read-only lookup for published face-shape guide records | No | Yes | Yes | | Harvard Art Museums | Art | apiKey | No | Unknown | | Icon Horse | Favicons for any website, with fallbacks | No | Yes | Yes | | Iconfinder | Icons | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Iconify | Search and fetch SVG icons from 200+ open source icon sets | No | Yes | Yes | | Icons8 | Icons (find "search icon" hyperlink in page) | No | Yes | Unknown | | Lordicon | Icons with predone Animations | No | Yes | Yes | | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Met Museum of Art | No | Yes | No | | Noun Project | Icons | OAuth | No | Unknown | | PHP-Noise | Noise Background Image Generator | No | Yes | Yes | | Pixel Encounter | SVG Icon Generator | No | Yes | No | | Rijksmuseum | RijksMuseum Data | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Smithsonian Open Access | Smithsonian collection metadata and open-access digital media | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Thisispaper | Curated architecture, design, photography and art projects with visual-similarity and taste metadata | apiKey | Yes | Yes | | UpRes | AI image upscaling to 8K with 18 models (Real-ESRGAN, SeedVR2, AuraSR) | apiKey | Yes | Yes | | Text-till-Kladdesign | AI fashion design generator — transform Swedish text into clothing concepts | apiKey | Yes | Yes | | Word Cloud | Easily create word clouds | apiKey | Yes | Unknown |

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Authentication & Authorization

API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS | |:---|:---|:---|:---|:---| | Auth0 | Easy to implement, adaptable authentication and authorization platform | apiKey | Yes | Yes | | GetOTP | Implement OTP flow quickly | apiKey | Yes | No | | Micro User Service | User management and authentication | apiKey | Yes | No | | MojoAuth | Secure and modern passwordless authentication platform | apiKey | Yes | Yes | | SAWO Labs | Simplify login and improve user experience by integrating passwordless authentication in your app | apiKey | Yes | Yes | | Stytch | User infrastructure for modern applications | apiKey | Yes | No | | Warrant | APIs for authorization and access control | apiKey | Yes | Yes |

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Blockchain

| API | Description | Auth | HTTPS | CORS | |---|:---|:---|:---|:---| | Bitquery | Onchain GraphQL APIs & DEX APIs | apiKey | Yes | Yes | | Blockscout | Multichain block explorer REST API (with Etherscan-compatible JSON-RPC) | apiKey | Yes | No | | Chainlink | Build hybrid smart contracts with Chainlink | No | Yes | Unknown | | Chainpoint | Chainpoint is a global network for anchoring data to the Bitcoin blockchain | No | Yes | Unknown | | ClearTrace | Cross-frontend DEX attribution and execution quality data across Ethereum and L2s | No | Yes | Yes | | Covalent | Multi-blockchain data aggregator platform | apiKey | Yes | Unknown | | Etherscan | Ethereum explorer API | apiKey | Yes | Yes | | Get Started with Web3 | Bilingual Web3 lessons, glossary search and role-based learning paths | No | Yes | Yes | | Helium | Helium is a global, distributed network of Hotspots that create public, long-range wireless coverage | No | Yes | Unknown | | [

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GitHub stars483,189
Forks53,374
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Primary languagePython
LicenseMIT
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Created2016-03-20
Last pushed2026-09-25

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