Public-APIs-you-can-use-in-example-projects

Maybe you have an idea for a perfectly nice CRUD app, or something that works with an API, but you don’t want to create the API in the first place.

I recommend to check out Airtable, which provides a great API for developers, very easy to use, like a database.

There are amazing public APIs you can use:

• The Cat API
• The Dog API
• The Chuck Norris API
• Fuck Off As A Service API
• Quotes API
• Quotes API
• The Spotify API
• The New York Times API
• The Wikipedia API
• The Wikidata API
• The Medium API
• Design Quotes API
• The GoodReads API
• The Dribbble API
• The 500px API
• The Unsplash API
• The Giphy API - GIFs!
• The Pixabay API
• Exchange rates
• Site screenshots API
• The Oxford Dictionary API
• Website Technologies API
• The Mapbox API
• Music Lyrics API by Genius
• Site meta tags API
• The EventBrite API
• Open source projects changelogs
• The GitHub REST API
• The GitHub GraphQL API
• QR codes API
• The StackExchange API
• Words and synonyms
• The Nasa API
• The SpaceX API
• The Hacker News API
• The Instagram API
• The Reddit API
• The Slack API
• The Twitter API
• The YouTube API
• Worldwide Holidays API

Image placeholders for your sample projects

• Placeholder.com
• Placekitten

Image generators

Avatars:

• RoboHash
• Adorable Avatars
• DiceBear Avatars (pixel art)

Sample text generator for your sample projects

Lorem Ipsum is boring. Spice it up:

• Cat Ipsum
• Bacon Ipsum
• Cupcake Ipsum
• Hipster Ipsum
• Office Ipsum
• Samuel L. Ipsum
• Zombie Ipsum
• Doctor Ipsum
• SF Ipsum

If you insist on using Lorem Ipsum, Loripsum is a good generator.

Other fake data

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