A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily

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Post by abhas9 » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 6:38 PM UTC

A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
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Re: A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily

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Post by atoav » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 7:12 PM UTC

Very cool site and a good reminder that we need more common/shared infrastructure like that.

One nitpick: why can I not open like KS to API sub-pages in a new tab? Are Hyperlinks unfashionable now?

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Post by rozenmd » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 7:12 PM UTC

(This doesn't apply to every API in the list, but) having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine, never again.

These days I keep an API deployed on a subdomain I control.

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Post by dmje » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 7:13 PM UTC

This is great - bookmarked!

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Post by hsdropout » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 7:23 PM UTC

I'm glad to see https://isevenapi.xyz/ made the list.

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Post by RicoElectrico » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 7:50 PM UTC

Paraphrasing a known saying, "there's no API, it's just someone else's computer".

I wish programmers would internalize this. They often seem to take APIs uncritically, not questioning whose resources they're using and where does the data come from as well as its quality beyond obvious cases. APIs are leaky abstractions as all abstractions are.

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Post by blumomo » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 8:00 PM UTC

> Free IP Geolocation API - lookup any IP address. Provides geolocation data based on the input IPv4/IPv6 address or domain name

Where does one get a geo location for an IP address from?

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Post by giarc » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 8:11 PM UTC

hsdropout wrote: post #5

I'm glad to see https://isevenapi.xyz/ made the list.

I Seven API vs is Even API. Can't say I saw it the right way at first.

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Post by louky » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 8:15 PM UTC

blumomo wrote: post #7

> Free IP Geolocation API - lookup any IP address. Provides geolocation data based on the input IPv4/IPv6 address or domain name Where does one get a geo location for an IP address from?

In this particular case they seem to pull from https://www.maxmind.com/en/home

There's a bunch of IP/GPS and physical address lookup sites, services, and databases out there.

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Post by wg0 » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 8:18 PM UTC

Whatever happened to programmable web?