PossibleAPIProjects

A HACKER NEWS CLIENT

List the popular posts Show a post comments Show a user profile Search HN Check HNPWA and Awesome Hacker News for inspiration

A REDDIT CLIENT

List the popular posts List the comments of a post Show a user profile

AN INSTAGRAM CLIENT

Enter an hashtag and get the latest posts Enter a username and get the latest posts Allow to store one or more hashtags/usernames and get all the latest posts from those

A GITHUB API CLIENT

List the popular repositories from today / week / month List the latest commits in a repository Show a person or organization public repositories ranked by stars

AN UNSPLASH API CLIENT

Search images by topic Let the user enter a term, show relevant images Start at Unsplash API

DATA FOR YOUR SAMPLE APPS

Sometimes you start doing some simple app, but you’re bored at finding data you can use. You don’t have to, you can use real data, or random data.

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:

Name / URL

  • The Cat API https://thecatapi.com/docs.html
  • The Dog API https://dog.ceo/dog-api/
  • The Chuck Norris API https://api.chucknorris.io/
  • Fuck Off As A Service API https://www.foaas.com/
  • Quotes API https://favqs.com/api
  • Quotes API http://forismatic.com/en/api/
  • Dad Jokes API https://icanhazdadjoke.com/api/
  • The Spotify API https://beta.developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/
  • The New York Times API https://developer.nytimes.com/
  • The Wikipedia API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
  • The Wikidata API https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help
  • The Medium API https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs
  • Design Quotes API https://quotesondesign.com/api-v4-0/
  • The GoodReads API https://www.goodreads.com/api
  • The Dribbble API http://developer.dribbble.com/v2/
  • The 500px API https://github.com/500px/api-documentation
  • The Unsplash API https://unsplash.com/developers
  • The Giphy API - GIFs! https://developers.giphy.com/docs/
  • The Pixabay API https://pixabay.com/sk/service/about/api/
  • Exchange rates https://exchangeratesapi.io/
  • Site screenshots API https://apileap.com/
  • The Oxford Dictionary API https://developer.oxforddictionaries.com/
  • Website Technologies API https://github.com/letsvalidate/api
  • The Mapbox API https://www.mapbox.com/developers/
  • Music Lyrics API by Genius https://docs.genius.com/
  • Site meta tags API http://bettermeta.io/
  • The EventBrite API https://www.eventbrite.com/developer/v3/
  • Open source projects changelogs https://changelogs.md/
  • The GitHub REST API https://developer.github.com/v3/
  • The GitHub GraphQL API https://developer.github.com/v4/
  • QR codes API http://goqr.me/api/
  • The StackExchange API https://api.stackexchange.com/
  • Words and synonyms https://www.wordsapi.com/
  • The Nasa API https://api.nasa.gov/
  • The SpaceX API https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API
  • The Hacker News API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
  • The Instagram API https://instagram.com/developer/
  • The Reddit API https://www.reddit.com/dev/api
  • The Slack API https://api.slack.com/
  • The Twitter API https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs
  • The YouTube API https://developers.google.com/youtube/