8 Free Public APIs That you can use in side projects

Updated September 8, 20212 min readMarkdown

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1. The Open Movie Database (OMDb)

OMDb contains different kinds of movies that you can use in your projects.

Auth: apiKey
Website: 🔗 OMDb

2. Pokemon API

You would probably remember these amazing creatures that can do awesome stuff. What happens we can use them in our projects;

Auth: No
Website: 🔗 PokéAPI

3. Rick & Morty API

These two characters really taught us something. Let us honor them by using inside projects.

Auth: No
Website: 🔗 The Rick and Morty API

4. Nomics Cryptocurrency & Bitcoin API

So you are interested in blockchain and want to build side projects with it. Nomic is the way to go.

Auth: apiKey
Website: 🔗 Nomics CryptoCurrent API

5. DiceBear Avatar API

If you want to generate unique, beautiful avatars you can check out diceBear's documentation.

Auth: No
Website: 🔗 Getting started | DiceBear Avatars

6. Json Placeholder API

This one is useful for filling some dummy test data to your application. It contains /posts, /comments queries that you can and it is completely free to use. Awesome!

Auth: No
Website: 🔗 JSONPlaceholder

7. New York Tİmes

Get the latest news around the world quickly, smoothly.

Auth: apiKey
Website: 🔗 NYTimes API

8. Fixer

See the current currency rate of exchange between different currencies.

Auth: apiKey
Website: 🔗 Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion API

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Abdullah Furkan Özbek
Furkan is a software engineer and frontend developer, whose main purpose is to create best optimal experience for user but also keeping the application or project as performant as possible.

He is deeply interested on web technologies and he is building new projects in this subject. He is especially familiar with React, Vue, Node and Java. You can check out what he built on his GitHub account. There is potential ways to connect with him at the end of this summary 👇

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