What is an API?
An API, also known as an application programming interface, is a set of rules that create a "communication language" given by a particular piece of software so that other software programs can interact with it. These are the 10 APIs to consider using for your next web development project to level up your skills.
1. Open Weather Map
Open Weather Map's API (FREEMIUM) provides global weather data (current weather data, forecasts, nowcasts, and historical weather data) based on any geographical data. Support for multiple languages, units of measurement and industry standard data formats like JSON and XML is available as a freemium plan and is significantly popular among software developers, students, researchers and developers across the world.
2. Spotify
Spotify's Web API (FREE) can be used to build your own custom version of Spotify. Based on REST principles, this API returns JSON metadata about music artists, albums, and tracks directly from the Spotify Data Catalogue. The Api can also be configured to provide the user's data, such as his or her playlists and favorite songs saved in their playlist but must get the user's authorization before doing so.
3. Google Maps
Google (PAID) has its own "Maps" platform where it hosts a variety of APIs to create real-world, real-time experiences with the latest maps, routes, and places to create your own maps application or to implement map integration into apps.
4. Spoonacular
Spoonacular (FREEMIUM) is an API researched and developed by engineers to create a complex food philosophy to better understand the psychology of ingredients, recipes, nutrition, allergens, and many more. Spoonacular Api can be used to make recipe/food apps and generators, etc., and related details about food.
5. IMDB
IMDB's API (PAID) provides information and ratings about films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online—including cast, production crew, and personal biographies; plot summaries; trivia; ratings; and fan and critical reviews through its online database.
6. AniList
AniList (FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE) is an open source GraphQL API that provides quick and powerful access to over 500k anime and manga entries, including characters, staff, and live airing data. AniList and AniChart run on this API, so everything that you see on the website is done via the API.
7. Giphy
Giphy's API (FREE) gives you access to GIPHY's ever-expanding content library of GIFs and Stickers, which includes the latest in entertainment, sports, and breaking news from GIPHY's official content partners. Fully customizable GIFS and available search results in over thirty languages.
8. NASA Open APIs
NASA Open Api (FREE) NASA platform that makes their data readily available to application developers. Open to all, authentication is not required in order to explore the NASA data. However, if you will be intensively using the APIs, for example, when creating a mobile application, then signing up for a NASA developer key is helpful.
9. PokeApi
For all my Pokémon fans out there, we have the PokeApi (FREE), which provides data for all Pokémon to Berry Flavors and its main game series via a modern RESTful Api.
10. Yelp Fusion
Yelp Fusion (FREE) is a Yelp-created platform for developers that provides the most up-to-date and accurate local data available. With dozens of attributes per business and millions of new reviews and photos added every day by active Yelp users, the Yelp data set remains unparalleled in its rich detail, freshness, and accuracy.