Public APIs is a community-curated collective list of over 1,400 free APIs organized across 50+ categories, maintained by contributors and the team at APILayer. It is one of the most popular open-source projects on GitHub with over 400k stars. A companion REST API (davemachado/public-api) exposes the directory data programmatically over HTTPS with no authentication. This repository captures the APIs, developer tools, and machine-readable API artifacts for Public APIs.
URL: Visit APIs.json URL
- Type: Index
- Position: Aggregating
- Access: 3rd-Party
- API Aggregation
- API Directory
- API Discovery
- Free APIs
- Open Source
- Created: 2026-03-26
- Modified: 2026-04-28
A collective list of free APIs organized by category including Animals, Finance, Weather, Geocoding, Government, Health, Machine Learning, Sports, and 40+ more categories.
A RESTful API for programmatically accessing the public-apis directory data. Supports CORS and requires no authentication, with all responses served over HTTPS. Endpoints include /entries, /random, /categories, and /health.
- Base URL:
https://api.publicapis.org - Documentation
- GitHub Repository
- OpenAPI Spec
FN: Kin Lane
Email: kin@apievangelist.com