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

#21

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

I feel like one of the categories they are missing is 'APIs that can be done in one line of JavaScript"

I'm not saying these shouldn't exist, I think they're pretty funny, but everything in its place.

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

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> 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.

IPFire Location is nice too: https://www.ipfire.org/location/how-to-use

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

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post #21

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

I feel like one of the categories they are missing is 'APIs that can be done in one line of JavaScript" I'm not saying these shouldn't exist, I think they're pretty funny, but everything in its place.

These come in handy in an instructional context—being able to have a simple predictable API that you can point students at so they can learn how to call an API and process its data.

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

#24

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

I love their pricing options include larger ranges of numbers, and enterprise class also includes negative numbers. ha ha.

Best part is that 'sign up' links to https://archive.org/donate/

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

#25
I like this, not only does it let people find the APIs but having a collection like this encourages others to make APIs and to keep them running.

There's not a lot of incentive to create a service if you feel like no-one will ever know about it. I have had a few thoughts for services that I might have developed if I thought anyone would ever see it.

There's probably an argument for sponsorship here as well, not as a vehicle for advertising, but just companies paying for (or supplying resources) to cover the ongoing costs of the service as a public good. I wish I could make something that worked and could put it somewhere and commit zero mindspace to billing, server maintenance etc. and just have it keep running, forever.

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

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I'm relieved to know the Rick and Morty API is in such good health.

I don't really understand why one would build an HTTP API for this. I can't imagine the database being more than a few megabytes, the whole thing could probably be served as a JSON file.

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

#28

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

I love their pricing options include larger ranges of numbers, and enterprise class also includes negative numbers. ha ha. Best part is that 'sign up' links to https://archive.org/donate/

I think their ad placement is even better than their pricing.

API Result:

GET https://api.isevenapi.xyz/api/iseven/6/

{"ad":"Buy isEvenCoin, the hottest new cryptocurrency!","iseven":true}

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