A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff
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#2Nice list. I looked at a few now. But since these are public/free APIs, I would be careful using them into production work, mainly for stability/scale reasons. Good for research/Prototype etc, IMO.
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#3Would be nice to see a column with request limit, if any.
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#4Nice list! I’ve used one of the art APIs listed, the Rijksmuseum one, to built a website which will show you a random object from their massive collection on each button click:
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#5Also see https://public-apis.io for a similar searchable listing of APIs.
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#6Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and display it on a screen but I've had difficulty finding a good source of art.
Thank you for the suggestions :)
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#7Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and display it on a screen but I've had difficulty finding a good source of art. Thank you for the suggestions :)
Spotify? Or is that not high quality enough? https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
(Or there's a bunch of others in the submission under 'music'.)
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#8Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and display it on a screen but I've had difficulty finding a good source of art. Thank you for the suggestions :)
I won't speak to the quality, but that's what libmusicbrainz is for: https://github.com/metabrainz/libmusicbrainz
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#9Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and display it on a screen but I've had difficulty finding a good source of art. Thank you for the suggestions :)
Someone else mentioned Spotify, you could try looking into Last.fm[1] (which queries from a number of different sources - spotify, youtube, soundcloud and user contributed artwork).
1: https://www.last.fm/api/show/album.getInfo - looks like it provides three image resolutions - small, medium and large.
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#10Obligatory link to the Tom Scott video on free APIs. There's a lot of common knowledge there, but his discussion on free APIs seems relevant. I've been burned by having hobbyist projects break from free APIs getting turned off.