API marketplace

Open UK policing data as an API, from the official data.police.uk service (UK Home Office). Pull street-level crimes within about a mile of any coordinate for a given month — each with its category, approximate street, location and judicial outcome — query stop-and-search records (type, demographics, object of search, outcome and legislation) for the same area, browse the 44 territorial police forces with contact and engagement details, and list the standard crime categories. Covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Ideal for property and neighbourhood-safety apps, real-estate and relocation tools, local-news and civic-data dashboards, and crime and policing research.

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100.0%

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453ms

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4,476

The Rick and Morty universe as an API — every character, location and episode from the show. Look up a character by id or search and filter the roster by name, status (alive, dead, unknown), species, type and gender (e.g. all living Mortys), browse locations by name, type and dimension, or pull episodes by name or episode code (e.g. S03E07 → The Ricklantis Mixup). Each character carries status, species, origin and last-known location, episode appearances and a portrait; locations carry their type and dimension; episodes carry the air date and cast size. Backed by the open rickandmortyapi.com dataset. Ideal for fan sites, trivia and quiz games, Discord bots, learning projects and any Rick and Morty app.

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100.0%

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112ms

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3,613

Search the global clinical-trials registry as an API, powered by the U.S. NIH ClinicalTrials.gov database of 500,000+ studies. Find trials by medical condition, intervention or drug, free-text term, location and recruitment status (recruiting, completed, active, terminated and more), with paging across results, or pull a full study by its NCT id. Each record carries the title, overall status, study type and phases, conditions studied, interventions, lead sponsor, enrollment count, start and completion dates, eligibility criteria (sex, age range, healthy-volunteer policy) and the list of participating sites with city and country. Ideal for patient-matching and recruitment tools, pharma and biotech competitive intelligence, medical research dashboards, health portals and academic analysis.

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100.0%

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190ms

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4,781

Over 560 comic and movie superheroes and villains as an API — Marvel, DC and beyond. Look up any character by id or name (e.g. Batman → DC Comics, alignment good, intelligence 81 / strength 40 / speed 29 / combat 90) or search and filter the whole roster by publisher and alignment. Each character carries the full profile: six powerstats (intelligence, strength, speed, durability, power, combat), biography (full name, alter-egos, place of birth, first appearance, publisher, alignment), appearance (gender, race, height, weight, eye and hair colour), occupation and base of operations, group affiliations and relatives, and character images. Backed by the open SuperHero Database. Ideal for comic and movie apps, trivia and quiz games, character-comparison tools, Discord bots and fan sites.

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100.0%

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78ms

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3,577

Real stock photography as an API, powered by Lorem Picsum. Browse a curated catalogue of high-resolution photos with their author and dimensions, look up any photo by id, or build a ready-to-embed image URL on the fly — pick a width and height and get a random photo, pass a seed for a stable deterministic image (the same seed always returns the same photo, ideal for consistent placeholders per user or item), or target a specific photo by id, with optional grayscale and blur. No accounts, no attribution headaches: every image is a clean, hotlinkable URL. Perfect for mockups and design comps, blog and CMS placeholders, app prototypes, test fixtures and any layout that needs real imagery instead of grey boxes.

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50.0%

Latency

8581ms

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3,257

The Star Wars universe as an API — every character, planet, film, starship, vehicle and species from the saga. Look up a record by id (e.g. people 1 → Luke Skywalker: 172 cm, born 19 BBY, homeworld Tatooine), search any category by name (e.g. people q=skywalker → Luke, Anakin and Shmi), or list whole categories with paging. Each record carries the full canonical data — physical traits and affiliations for characters; climate, terrain, gravity and population for planets; crew, hyperdrive rating, cargo and cost for starships and vehicles; titles, directors, opening crawls and release dates for the films — with cross-references between them. Backed by swapi.tech. Ideal for fan sites, quizzes and trivia games, Discord bots, learning projects and any Star Wars app.

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100.0%

Latency

302ms

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4,021

The complete Dungeons & Dragons 5th-edition System Reference Document as an API — spells, monsters, classes, subclasses, races, backgrounds, equipment, magic items, conditions, features, feats, skills and the full rules reference. Look up a spell by name (e.g. Fireball → 3rd-level evocation, 150 ft, 8d6 fire) or a monster statblock (e.g. Adult Red Dragon → CR 17, AC 19, 256 HP, legendary actions), list and filter any resource type (spells by level or school, monsters by challenge rating), or fetch full detail for any of the 24 SRD categories. Backed by the open dnd5eapi.co dataset. Ideal for character builders, virtual tabletops, encounter and spell-card generators, Discord bots and homebrew tools.

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100.0%

Latency

242ms

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3,653

Generate deterministic avatars and identicons from any seed — the same seed always renders the exact same avatar, so user IDs, usernames or emails map to stable, unique profile pictures with no storage. 30 art styles (bottts robots, pixel-art, avataaars, identicon, lorelei, notionists, fun-emoji, shapes, rings and more), returned as ready-to-use SVG markup or a base64 PNG data-URI, with options for size, corner radius, background colour and flip. Backed by DiceBear. Ideal for default user avatars, comment/forum placeholders, dashboards, game characters, test fixtures and any UI that needs an instant, reproducible profile image.

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100.0%

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90ms

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3,131

Search the entire arXiv scholarly-preprint corpus as an API — millions of papers across physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology and finance, statistics, electrical engineering and economics. Query by free text, title, author and/or subject category (e.g. q=transformer&category=cs.AI), with paging and sort by relevance, submission or last-update date, or pull full metadata for any paper by its arXiv id (e.g. 1706.03762 → "Attention Is All You Need"). Every result carries the title, full author list, abstract, primary and cross-list categories, DOI, journal reference, comments and a direct PDF link. Ideal for literature-review and research tools, citation managers, ML/AI paper trackers, academic search and discovery, and science newsletters.

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100.0%

Latency

176ms

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3,617

Dogs and cats as a single friendly API. List every dog breed and its sub-breeds and pull dog photos (e.g. breed=hound or hound/afghan, up to 10 at once), browse 60+ cat breeds with rich metadata — temperament, country of origin, life span, weight and child/dog-friendliness scores — pull cat photos, and grab a random cat fact. Three reliable, key-less open sources (dog.ceo, TheCatAPI, catfact.ninja) behind one clean envelope. Perfect for pet adoption and veterinary apps, kids and education content, Discord/Telegram bots, placeholder imagery, quizzes and any product that needs a quick hit of dogs and cats.

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100.0%

Latency

277ms

Subs

4,641

The complete Magic: The Gathering card database as an API — every card ever printed, backed by Scryfall. Look up a card by name (exact, with automatic fuzzy fallback, e.g. "Black Lotus" → mana cost {0}, type, oracle text, rarity, set, format legalities and current market prices), search the entire pool with Scryfall's powerful query syntax (e.g. q=goblin, q=c:red type:creature cmc<=3, ordered by name/cmc/usd/rarity), pull a random card with an optional filter, browse all 1,000+ sets, and list every mana/cost symbol with its glyph. Each card carries colors, color identity, keywords, power/toughness/loyalty, collector number, artist, release date, high-resolution image and prices in USD/EUR/TIX. Ideal for deckbuilders, collection trackers, price-checkers, Discord bots, judges and MTG content tools.

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100.0%

Latency

384ms

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3,566

The Japanese kanji writing system as an API — every Jōyō, Kyōiku and Jinmeiyō kanji with its on/kun readings, English meanings, JLPT level, school grade, stroke count and newspaper frequency. Look up a single kanji (e.g. 字 → grade 1, JLPT 4, readings ジ / あざ, meanings "character, letter"), find every kanji that shares a kana reading (e.g. かじ), list the vocabulary that uses a given kanji, or pull a whole standard set (Jōyō 2,136 · Kyōiku · grade-1…grade-6 · Jinmeiyō) with paging. Backed by the open KANJIDIC2 / JMdict datasets via kanjiapi.dev. Ideal for Japanese-learning and flashcard apps, SRS/Anki-style study tools, furigana and reading aids, language-education platforms and linguistics research.

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100.0%

Latency

161ms

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4,470

The Holy Quran as an API. Fetch any ayah (verse) by its surah:ayah reference — for example 2:255, the Ayat al-Kursi — returning both the original Arabic (Uthmani script) and a translation, along with the surah name, juz and page; read a full surah (chapter, 1 to 114) with every ayah in Arabic and translation; search the Quran for a word or phrase within a translation; and list the available translations (over 100, in English, French, Urdu, Indonesian, Turkish and many more languages). Live from the AlQuran Cloud API. Ideal for Quran reading and study apps, Islamic education and dawah tools, verse-of-the-day features and mosque or community websites. Open scripture data.

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100.0%

Latency

113ms

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3,753

The Bible as an API. Fetch any verse or passage by reference — a single verse like John 3:16 or a range like Psalms 23:1-3 or Genesis 1:1-5 — and get the clean verse text, the individual verses with their book, chapter and verse numbers, and the translation name; pull a random verse for verse-of-the-day features; and list all available translations, including the World English Bible, King James Version, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English, the Chinese Union Version and more. Live from bible-api.com. Ideal for Bible and devotional apps, church and ministry websites, verse-of-the-day widgets and study tools. Open scripture data.

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100.0%

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243ms

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3,385

A clean, family-friendly jokes API. Fetch a random joke — or several at once — as a single-line one-liner or a two-part setup-and-delivery, filtered by category (Programming, Misc, Pun, Spooky, Christmas); search for jokes containing a specific word; and list the available categories. Safe-mode is always enforced and the offensive "Dark" category is excluded, so every joke is workplace- and family-safe. Ideal for chat and Discord bots, websites and apps that want a touch of humour, loading screens, and developer tools. Built on JokeAPI.

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100.0%

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106ms

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4,975

Islamic prayer times, the Hijri calendar and the Qibla direction as an API. Get the five daily prayer times — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha, plus sunrise, sunset, Imsak and midnight — for any coordinate and date, calculated with your choice of method (Muslim World League, ISNA, Umm al-Qura, Egyptian, and many more), alongside the matching Hijri date; convert any date between the Gregorian and Hijri (Islamic lunar) calendars in either direction; and get the exact Qibla direction — the compass bearing and great-circle distance from any location to the Kaaba in Mecca. Prayer times and calendar conversion are powered by the Aladhan service; the Qibla is computed directly. Ideal for Muslim prayer and lifestyle apps, mosque and community sites, Ramadan tools and calendars, and any app that needs accurate prayer times or Hijri dates. Open data.

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100.0%

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98ms

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4,842

The open cosmetics and personal-care product database — Open Beauty Facts — as an API. Look up any cosmetic or personal-care product by its barcode to get its name and brand, full INCI ingredient list and ingredient count, categories and labels, quantity, the period-after-opening (the "12M" open-jar symbol), origin countries, a product image, and a vegan / palm-oil-free analysis derived from its ingredients; search the database by keyword; and browse products by category (shampoos, lipsticks, deodorants, sunscreens, moisturisers and more). Covers shampoos, skincare, make-up, deodorants, toothpaste and other personal-care items from a global, contributor-maintained database. Live from world.openbeautyfacts.org — the cosmetics sister project of Open Food Facts. Ideal for skincare and cosmetics apps, ingredient and allergen checkers, ethical-shopping and sustainability tools. Open data.

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100.0%

Latency

231ms

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3,672

Solar photovoltaic potential for any location on Earth, powered by the EU JRC PVGIS (Photovoltaic Geographical Information System). Estimate how much energy a solar PV system would produce at a given coordinate — yearly and month-by-month output in kWh, the in-plane solar irradiation and a breakdown of system losses (angle-of-incidence, spectral, temperature) — for any panel size, fixed tilt and azimuth; find the optimal panel tilt and orientation that maximises annual output; and read the long-term monthly global horizontal solar irradiation. Covers most of the world (excluding polar and open-ocean areas) from years of satellite-based solar data. Ideal for solar installers and calculators, renewable-energy planning, home-energy and roof-potential tools, and climate / sustainability apps. Open data from EU JRC PVGIS.

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100.0%

Latency

502ms

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3,489

Global river-discharge and flood forecasting as an API, powered by the GloFAS (Global Flood Awareness System) model via Open-Meteo. For any coordinate on Earth, get a daily river-discharge forecast of up to 30 days — with the ensemble spread (mean, max and min across forecast members) so you can gauge uncertainty — plus up to 90 days of recent discharge history, and a quick current-situation summary with today's discharge and a 7-day outlook (peak day, max/min and rising/falling/stable trend). Discharge is reported in cubic metres per second. Ideal for flood early-warning and monitoring, insurance and reinsurance risk, agriculture and irrigation planning, hydropower, and environmental research. Data covers modelled rivers worldwide (none over open ocean). Open data via Open-Meteo / GloFAS.

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100.0%

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108ms

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4,245

A playing-card deck engine as an API. Create a freshly shuffled deck (one or many decks, with or without jokers), draw cards from it, and reshuffle — with full deck state tracked by a deck id so you can deal hands across multiple calls. Each card comes with its code (e.g. AS, 0H), value, suit and a PNG and SVG image URL, so you can render real cards. Draw cards statelessly from a brand-new deck for quick random picks, or keep a deck_id to build a full game. Ideal for card games and game prototypes, Discord bots, teaching and probability demos, and any app that needs a standard 52-card deck. Built on the Deck of Cards service.

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100.0%

Latency

287ms

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3,203

The Terraform Registry — the home of Terraform and OpenTofu modules and providers — as an API. Look up any module for its latest version, total downloads, source repository, verified status, publish date and a ready-to-paste usage block, plus counts of its inputs, outputs and managed resources; read a module's full version history; search the registry of thousands of community modules (optionally filtered by provider); and look up any provider for its version, download count and tier (official / partner / community). Covers the infrastructure-as-code ecosystem from the terraform-aws-modules VPC, EKS and RDS modules to the hashicorp/aws, google and azurerm providers. Live from the official registry.terraform.io API. Ideal for IaC and GitOps tooling, module catalogs and dashboards, and platform-engineering automation. Open data from the Terraform Registry.

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100.0%

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253ms

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3,396

Artifact Hub — the CNCF registry for cloud-native packages — as an API. Look up any Helm chart, OLM operator, Falco rule, OPA / Kyverno / Gatekeeper policy, Krew kubectl plugin, Tekton task and more for its version and app version, description, license, maintainers, keywords, repository (with verified-publisher and official flags), home and source links, and its full version history. Search the registry across any package kind. Covers the Kubernetes / cloud-native ecosystem from the Bitnami, Prometheus and Grafana Helm charts to Krew plugins and security policies. Live from the official artifacthub.io API. Ideal for GitOps and DevOps dashboards, supply-chain and update tooling, internal chart catalogs and Kubernetes platform engineering. Open data from Artifact Hub.

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100.0%

Latency

210ms

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4,277

The open VS Code extension registry — Open VSX — as an API. Open VSX is the vendor-neutral marketplace behind VSCodium, Gitpod, Eclipse Theia, Cursor and many other editors. Look up any extension by its namespace.name id for its display name and description, latest version, publisher, total download count, average rating, license, categories and tags, repository and homepage links, and the exact `code --install-extension` command; read an extension's full version history; and search the registry by keyword, ranked by downloads. Covers the editor-extension ecosystem from Python, Java and ESLint to Prettier, GitLens and the major themes and language packs. Live from the official open-vsx.org API. Ideal for editor and IDE tooling, extension catalogs and dashboards, and developer-portal integrations. Open data from Open VSX.

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100.0%

Latency

165ms

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4,915

The container image registry — Docker Hub — as an API. Look up any image (repository) for its description, total pull count and star count, official status, last-updated date and categories, plus the ready-to-run `docker pull` command; list an image's tags and versions with each tag's compressed size, supported platforms (linux/amd64, linux/arm64, …) and publish date; and search the registry of millions of images. Covers everything from official images like nginx, postgres, redis, node, python and ubuntu to vendor images like bitnami/postgresql. Live from the official hub.docker.com API. Ideal for DevOps dashboards, CI/CD and supply-chain tooling, image catalogs and update automation. Open data from Docker Hub.

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100.0%

Latency

205ms

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3,364