A Curated List of 100 Cool and Fun Public APIs to Inspire Your Next Project. This list is originally taken from Angelica Dietzel .
As a assistant professor, I find it efficient if I want to let students use any APIs to deliver on a project.
Send a daily cat fact via text message.
Access and integrate over 20,000 dog images based on the Stanford Dogs Dataset.
List of threatened species and provides an evaluation of the conservation status of plant and animal species.
Live adoptable pet data queries including radius searches, animal-specific locations, animal-specific contact information, rescue and shelter searches, species, breeds, colors, patterns, and qualities lists.
Explore marine mammal sighting data.
Holds over 20,000 anime and manga titles and returns key encyclopedia data in XML format.
Access the catalogs of the people, places, and things found in the worlds of Ghibli.
The most active online anime + manga community and database.
All the Pokémon data you’ll ever need in one place.
Trace back the original anime by screenshot. Searches over 22,300 hours of anime to find the best matching scene.
Return poem of the day and random poems. You can also search for poems based on author, tag, and keyword, and you can access a private poem collection.
Explore and integrate the museum’s collections in your projects and access data about objects, people, exhibitions, publications, and galleries.
Add QueekyPaint to your personal blog or website.
Search and experience the largest database of immersive face filters, 360 videos, and 360 photos.
Easily get information on the FBI Wanted program.
Get access to a database of mugshots and arrest data sourced from many counties across the U.S.
Integrates information on child labor and forced labor taken from the reports “Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor,” “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor,” and “List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor.”
A place to learn about and report bike crashes, hazards, and thefts.
Complete access to a comprehensive database of accurate food and nutrition information as well as exercise and weight management tools.
A community-driven taco recipe repository.
A community-driven taco recipe repository.
A community-driven taco recipe repository.
Advanced Machine Learning APIs for recognizing and processing images.
Process and analyze input media images or video content. Allows you to process, transform, and filter any images from any programming language with machine vision and deep learning APIs.
An open-source Machine Learning Server built on top of an open-source stack for developers and data scientists to create predictive engines for any machine learning task.
Can group sentences (such as sentences from multiple news articles) or short texts (such as posts from Twitter or Facebook Status Updates) into logical groups.
A natural open-source language processing platform that offers the function to add intelligent speech functionality to web and mobile applications.
Returns spell routes, character routes, house, and sorting hat routes.
Access over 22,000 movie reviews by the New York Times critics from today back to 1924.
Returns quotes from Star Wars films. You can even choose to get quotes from the Dark Side!
Access information about Marvel’s library of comics — from new to old.
Returns a random Netflix title based on a user’s input, including genre, rating, and whether it is a movie or a TV show.