# 8 Free Public APIs That you can use in side projects

### 1. The Open Movie Database (OMDb)
OMDb contains different kinds of movies that you can use in your projects. 

- **Auth:** apiKey

-  **Website:** 🔗 [OMDb](https://www.omdbapi.com/)

### 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](http://pokeapi.co/)

### 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](http://rickandmortyapi.com/)

### 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](https://nomics.com/docs/)

### 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](https://avatars.dicebear.com/docs)

### 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](http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/)

### 7. New York Tİmes
Get the latest news around the world quickly, smoothly.

-  **Auth:** apiKey

-  **Website:** 🔗 [NYTimes API](https://developer.nytimes.com)

### 8. Fixer
See the current currency rate of exchange between different currencies.

-  **Auth:** apiKey

-  **Website:** 🔗 [Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion API](https://fixer.io/)

## Links

- [10 Free Public APIs for developers you need to use for your next projects](https://dev.to/pascavld/10-free-public-apis-for-developers-you-need-to-use-for-your-next-projects-39i)

- [GitHub - public-apis/public-apis: A collective list of free APIs](https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis#weather)